Beginning CSS
Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design
1st Edition
Published on 24. December 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
648 pages
978-0-7645-7642-3 (ISBN)
Description
* This book is the perfect introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Web markup standard that allows Web designers and developers to easily make a style change to one CSS template and then change formatting across hundreds-or thousands-of pages
* Covers the current CSS standard versions (CSS 1 and CSS 2) with notes and comments where appropriate on the CSS 3 standard in development
* Includes quick reference on CSS at the end of the book as well as integrated reference coverage throughout
* Teaches by using an example-oriented approach and includes exercises at the end of each chapter, with sample solutions provided in the appendix
* Covers the current CSS standard versions (CSS 1 and CSS 2) with notes and comments where appropriate on the CSS 3 standard in development
* Includes quick reference on CSS at the end of the book as well as integrated reference coverage throughout
* Teaches by using an example-oriented approach and includes exercises at the end of each chapter, with sample solutions provided in the appendix
More details
Edition
1., Aufl.
Language
English
Place of publication
Foster City
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 19 cm
Weight
965 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7645-7642-3 (9780764576423)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
06/2007
2nd Edition
Wiley
€34.90
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Person
Richard York is a freelance web designer and a participant in the open source community. After attending website and graphic design courses at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana, Richard continued a course of self-study which involved mastering design of web sites using web technologies like CSS, XHTML, and PHP.
When not writing for Wrox or building a website, Richard works on open source webmail applications written for PHP PEAR, an open source repository of PHP applications. Richard also enjoys writing poetry, playing music, and painting. He maintains a website at www.smilingsouls.net that exhibits his personal and professional interests.
When not writing for Wrox or building a website, Richard works on open source webmail applications written for PHP PEAR, an open source repository of PHP applications. Richard also enjoys writing poetry, playing music, and painting. He maintains a website at www.smilingsouls.net that exhibits his personal and professional interests.
Content
Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: Introducing Cascading Style Sheets. Chapter 2: Document Standards. Chapter 3: The Basics of CSS Anatomy and Syntax. Chapter 4: Data Types, Keywords, Color, Length, and the URI. Chapter 5: CSS Selectors. Chapter 6: Pseudo--Element and Pseudo--Class Selectors. Chapter 7: Inheritance and the Cascade. Chapter 8: Text Manipulation. Chapter 9: Font Manipulation. Chapter 10: Liquid Design and the CSS Box Model. Chapter 11: CSS Buoyancy: Collapsing Margins, Floating, and Vertical Alignment. Chapter 12: Styling Lists and the User Interface. Chapter 13: Backgrounds: Setting the Scene. Chapter 14: Positioning. Chapter 15: Styling for Handheld Devices and Print. Chapter 16: Styling Tables. Chapter 17: Styling XML. Chapter 18: Cross--Browser Compatibility. Appendix A: Exercise Answers. Appendix B: CSS Reference. Appendix C: CSS Colors. Appendix D: Browser Rendering Modes. Index.