HTML & CSS : the good parts / Ben Henick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henick, Ben.

Series:

Animal Guide.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cascading style sheets.

HTML (Document markup language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

HTML and CSS

Place of Publication:

2010.

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

HTML and CSS are the workhorses of web design, and using them together to build consistent, reliable web pages requires both skill and knowledge. The task is more difficult if you're relying on outdated, confusing, and unnecessary HTML hacks and workarounds. Author Ben Henick shows you how to avoid those traps by going beyond the standard tips, tricks, and techniques to connect the underlying theory and design of HTML and CSS to your everyday work habits. With this practical book, you'll learn how to work with these tools far more effectively than is standard practice for most we

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; The Who and What of This Book; What Are the Good Parts?; What You Should Know Before You Read This Book; The Ideal Reader; A Warning About Familiarity (or Lack Thereof); Objectives of This Book; What Is Not In This Book; About Web Standards; About Photoshop; What You'll Find on the Companion Website; Nomenclature; "Read the Source, Luke!"; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact O'Reilly; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Hypertext at the Core; The Web Without Links; URIs; Managing Links

Improving the User Experience with LinkingHypertext Implementation Challenges; Chapter 2. Working with HTML Markup; HTML Syntax; Tags, Elements, and Attributes; Page Structure; Rendering Modes, Flavors of HTML, and Document Type Declarations; HTML or XHTML?; Strict, Transitional, or Frameset?; A Tale of Two Box Models; Choosing the Right Document Type for Your Project; Beautiful Parts: Universal Attributes; Providing Stylesheet Hooks with class and id; Describing Content with title and lang; The contenteditable Attribute in HTML5; Separating Content, Structure, Presentation, and Behavior

Making Your Sites "Safe As Houses"Separation in Practice; Working with Document Trees; Browsers, Parsing, and Rendering; Dynamic HTML, Ajax, and Rendering; Chapter 3. CSS Overview; Connecting Stylesheets to HTML Documents; Referencing a Stylesheet with link; Targeting Internet Explorer Versions with Conditional Comments; Replacing link with style; Using @import; Beware of style Attributes!; Targeting Rules to Specific Media; Choosing the Elements You Want to Style: Writing Selectors; Parents, Children, and Siblings: Element/Node Relationships; Simple Selectors

Multiple and Descendant SelectorsSelecting Direct Child Elements; Rule Conflicts, Priority, and Precedence; Selector Priority; Avoiding Rule Conflicts; Value Inheritance; CSS Property and Value Survey; CSS Units; Cross-Media Length and Size Units; Pitch and the Value of a Pixel; Print-Friendly Length Units; font-size Keywords; Color Units; Key CSS Layout Properties; Chapter 4. Developing a Healthy Relationship with Standards; The Broad Landscape of Web-Related Standards; Why Web Standards?; Interoperability; Market Forces; Forward Compatibility; Accessibility; Vendor Priorities

Legacy Asset InertiaBest Practices (and Lack Thereof); Strict Constructionism; Taking the Middle Road: Standards-Friendliness; Benefits of Standards-Friendliness; Rules of Standards-Friendly Development; Chapter 5. Effective Style and Structure; The Four Habits of Effective Stylists; Habit #1: Keeping It Simple; Simplicity and huge sites; Habit #2: Keeping It Flexible; Flexibility, internal libraries, and code reuse; Habit #3: Keeping to Consistency; Managing templates to achieve consistency; Habit #4: Keeping Your Bearings; Product documentation as an effective "compass"

CSS Zen and the Stylist's Experience

Notes:

"Better ways to build websites that work."

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449388751

1449388752

9781449389154

1449389155

OCLC:

808998845