CSS: The Missing Manual

CSS: The Missing Manual Second Edition

O'Reilly Media; Second Edition | August 2006 | David Sawyer McFarland | English | ISBN-10: 0-596-52687-3 | ISBN-13: 978-0-59-652687-0 | 494 Pages | Chm | 17.19 MB

CSS: The Missing Manual clearly explains this powerful design language and how you can use it to build sparklingly new Web sites or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade.

What You'll learn:

• Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS.
• Style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders.
• Turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages.
• Style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows.
• Make HTML forms look great without a lot of messy HTML.
• Overcome the most hair-pulling browser bugs so your Web pages work consistently from browser to browser.
• Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that don't require using old techniques like HTML tables.
• Style Web pages for printing.

Contents
Part I: CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
Chapter 1. Rethinking HTML for CSS
Chapter 2. Creating Styles and Style Sheets
Chapter 3. Selector Basics: Identifying What to Style
Chapter 4. Saving Time with Inheritance
Chapter 5. Managing Multiple Styles: The Cascade
Part II: Applied CSS
Chapter 6. Formatting Text
Chapter 7. Margins, Padding, and Borders
Chapter 8. Adding Graphics to Web Pages
Chapter 9. Sprucing Up Your Site's Navigation
Chapter 10. Formatting Tables and Forms
Part III: CSS Page Layout
Chapter 11. Building Float-Based Layouts
Chapter 12. Positioning Elements on a Web Page
Part IV: Advanced CSS
Chapter 13. CSS for the Printed Page
Chapter 14. Improving Your CSS Habits
Part V: Appendixes
Appendix A. CSS Property Reference
Appendix B. CSS in Dreamweaver 8
Appendix C. CSS Resources
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Index

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