Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (3rd Edition)

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (3rd Edition)

Bert Bos

Product Description :

Since 1996, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) has been the standard language for describing the layout of Web pages. This classic, fully four-color book explains how to use the latest release of the CSS language, with clear and practical examples for each CSS language element. And more than just the "how," the book also explains the "why" behind the design of each CSS element, ensuring that readers have the understanding they need to create their own CSS libraries.The foreward is written by Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with WebStandards and Taking Your Talent to the Web.


From the Back Cover :

In this updated edition to their original best-selling classic, the co-creators of CSS clearly, logically, and painlessly explain the hows and whys and ins and outs of the visual formatting language that is their gift to us. The Web would be a poorer place without Messieurs Bos and Lie. Your shelf will be richer for the addition of this book.

Rely on it. Study it. Savor it.

The Indispensible CSS Tutorial and Reference—Straight from the Creators of CSS

Direct from the creators of CSS, this is the definitive guide to CSS, today's indispensable standard for controlling the appearance of any Web or XML document. This book doesn't just show how to use every significant CSS 1 and 2.x feature; it carefully explains the "why" behind today's most valuable CSS design techniques. You'll find practical, downloadable examples throughout—along with essential browser support information and best practices for building high-impact pages and applications.

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition covers every CSS 2.1 improvement and fix, from new height/width definitions in absolutely positioned elements to new clip property calculations. Clear, readable, and thorough, it's the one must-have CSS resource for every Web developer, designer, and content provider. Coverage includes

Mastering essential CSS concepts: Rules, declarations, selectors, properties, and more

Working with type: From absolute/relative units to font size and weight

Understanding CSS objects: Box model, display properties, list styles, and more

Exercising total control over spacing and positioning

Specifying colors for borders and backgrounds

Managing printing: Margins, page breaks, and more

Implementing media-specific style sheets for audio rendering, handhelds, and other forms of presentation

Moving from HTML extensions to CSS: Five practical case studies

Making the most of cascading and inheritance

Using external style sheets and @import

Integrating CSS with XML documents

Optimizing the performance of CSS pages

Includes a handy CSS Quick Reference printed on the inside covers