CSS secrets : better solutions to everyday web design problems / Lea Verou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verou, Lea, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cascading style sheets.

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Cascading style sheets secrets : better solutions to everyday web design problems

Better solutions to everyday web design problems

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this practical guide, CSS expert Lea Verou provides 47 undocumented techniques and tips to help intermediate-to advanced CSS developers devise elegant solutions to a wide range of everyday web design problems. Rather than focus on design, CSS Secrets shows you how to solve problems with code. You'll learn how to apply Lea's analytical approach to practically every CSS problem you face to attain DRY, maintainable, flexible, lightweight, and standards-compliant results. Inspired by her popular talks at over 60 international web development conferences, Lea Verou provides a wealth of information for topics including: Backgrounds and Borders Shapes Visual Effects Typography User Experience Structure and Layout Transitions and Animations

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Secrets by Specification""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Words of thanks""; ""Making of""; ""About this book""; ""1. Introduction""; ""Web standards: friend or foe?""; ""CSS coding tips""; ""2. Backgrounds & Borders""; ""Translucent borders""; ""Multiple borders""; ""Flexible background positioning""; ""Inner rounding""; ""Striped backgrounds""; ""Complex background patterns""; ""(Pseudo)random backgrounds""; ""Continuous image borders""; ""3. Shapes""; ""Flexible ellipses""; ""Parallelograms""; ""Diamond images""; ""Cutout corners""; ""Trapezoid tabs""

""Simple pie charts""""4. Visual Effects""; ""One-sided shadows""; ""Irregular drop shadows""; ""Color tinting""; ""Frosted glass effect""; ""Folded corner effect""; ""5. Typography""; ""Hyphenation""; ""Inserting line breaks""; ""Zebra-striped text lines""; ""Adjusting tab width""; ""Ligatures""; ""Fancy ampersands""; ""Custom underlines""; ""Realistic text effects""; ""Circular text""; ""6. User Experience""; ""Picking the right cursor""; ""Extending the clickable area""; ""Custom checkboxes""; ""De-emphasize by dimming""; ""De-emphasize by blurring""; ""Scrolling hints""

""Interactive image comparison""""7. Structure & Layout""; ""Intrinsic sizing""; ""Taming table column widths""; ""Styling by sibling count""; ""Fluid background, fixed content""; ""Vertical centering""; ""Sticky footers""; ""8. Transitions & Animations""; ""Elastic transitions""; ""Frame-by-frame animations""; ""Blinking""; ""Typing animation""; ""Smooth state animations""; ""Animation along a circular path""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2015).

ISBN:

9781449372767

1449372767

9781449372736

1449372732

9781449372774

1449372775

OCLC:

914166287