Cascading Style Sheets For Dummies

Introduction; About This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Part I: Welcome to the Web Design Jungle; Part II: Parlez-Vous CSS?; Part III: Putting CSS to Work for You; Part IV: Getting Your Advanced CSS Degree; Part V: The Part of Tens; Part VI: Appendixes; Icons Used in This Book; About the CD; Anything Else before You Dive In?; Part I: Welcome to the Web Design Jungle; Chapter 1: Cascading Style Sheets 101; The Dawn of CSS; Style Sheets Rule - How They Work; Finding Your Own Style; Can I Get A Little Support Here?; The Processing Line Starts Here; You Will Conform ... Eventually; Looking Ahead: CSS3; Chapter 2: Shopping for Sheets with Style; This Is Font-astic!; Designing Your Pages Your Way with Positioning; Now You See Me, Now You Don't; The Missing Link; The Box Model Defines the Size of an Element; Chapter 3: Down and Dirty: Building a Style Sheet in Ten Minutes; Some Questions to Ask Yourself First; Building Your First Style Sheet; Part II: Parlez-vous CSS?; Chapter 4: I Declare: Who Selected These Rules Anyway?; The Anatomy of a Rule; Selectors on the Left; I Declare!; Group Hug!; Those Selectors Aren't Real - Just Pseudo!; Chapter 5: Where There's A Property, There's A Unit; Color Your World; The Long and the Short of It, Absolutely and Relatively; Discovering More Units; Chapter 6: CSS Font and Text Properties; A Font of Fonts; Dressing Up Your Fonts!; Enough Fonts: Gimme Some Text; Chapter 7: Styles and Visual Design; The Box Model Shows on the Big Screen; How Space Affects the Box Model; Visualizing the Model; Adding a Splash of Color; What's Going On in the Background?; Chapter 8: Positions Everyone!; So, Just How Bad Is HTML Anyway?; The Basics of Positioning; Up, Down, Right, Left!; Put Your Content Right ... There! Absolutely!; Positioning the Relatives; Somebody Fix This Positioning; Floating Along; Chapter 9: Inheritance under the Hood; How the Cascade in CSS Works; Determining Your Inheritance; Tasty Imported Rules; Part III: Putting CSS to Work for You; Chapter 10: Designing with Style Sheets; Just How Deep Is the Deep End?; Structuring Your Style Sheets for Success; The Big Don't List (And a Few Do's, Too); The Right Time to Go Inline; Chapter 11: Getting Existing Content into Style Sheets; Cast Away That Obsolete HTML; Getting Your Font Properties in Order; Hey, What about a Pseudo-element?; Lose That Extra Table!; Changing the Background Game!; Part IV: Getting Your Advanced CSS Degree; Chapter 12: Generating Content; Show Me the Content!; The Appetizers and Desserts of the CSS Family; Can I Quote " You on That? No!; Count Me in ... or Out!; So, Do the Lists Work?; Chapter 13: Mr. Smith, Your Table Is Ready; Tables from the (HTML) Crypt; Table Tags - Do Not Remove under Penalty of Law; Take Two Aspirins, and Column Me in the Morning; Tables without (and with) Borders; Headers, Rows, and Data Are Our Friends; Chapter 14: CSS and XML: The Perfect Match?; XML Gives Your Documents Structure and Meaning; Building an XML Document; Using CSS to Design an XML Document; Is This an Efficient Way to Design Pages?; Chapter 15: Styles and Other Media; Using CSS for Different Media Types; Defining Aural Style Sheets; Aural Style Sheet Properties: Making Your Sound Behave; Chapter 16: Working with Paged Media; Setting Up Pages with the @page Rule; Sizing Up Your Pages; Breaking the Page; Part V: The Part of Tens; Chapter 17: Ten Web Sites That Use Cascading Style Sheets; CNN; ESPN; The Standard; Ford Motor Company; MSN; Webvan; 1-800-Flowers; Entertainment Weekly; Museum of Modern Art; Morningstar; Chapter 18: Ten Great Web Resources for More about CSS; WebReview.com; Builder.com; msdn online; World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); DevEdge Online; Webmonkey; WebReference.com; EarthWeb; HTMLHelp.com; CSS Pointers Group; Part VI: Appendixes; Appendix A: CSS Property Index and Browser Compatibility Charts; Appendix B: HTML Editors and Utilities with CSS Built In; Appendix C: About the CD; Index; Hungry Minds End-User License Agreement; Installation Instructions; Book Registration Information