CSS The Definitive Guide

Sebastopol : : O'Reilly Media, , 2006.

1 online resource (538 p.)

3rd ed.

Description based upon print version of record.. - Table of Contents; Preface; Conventions Used in This Book; Property Conventions; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; CSS and Documents; The Web's Fall from Grace; What a Mess; CSS to the Rescue; Rich Styling; Ease of Use; Using Your Styles on Multiple Pages; Cascading; Compact File Size; Preparing for the Future; Elements; Replaced and Nonreplaced Elements; Replaced elements; Nonreplaced elements; Element Display Roles; Block-level elements; Inline-level elements; Bringing CSS and XHTML Together; The link Tag; Attributes; Alternate style sheets. - Declarations and SpecificityUniversal Selector Specificity; ID and Attribute Selector Specificity; Inline Style Specificity; Importance; Inheritance; The Cascade; Sorting by Weight and Origin; Sorting by Specificity; Sorting by Order; Non-CSS Presentational Hints; Summary; Values and Units; Numbers; Percentages; Color; Named Colors; Colors by RGB; Functional RGB colors; Hexadecimal RGB colors; Bringing the colors together; Web-safe colors; Length Units; Absolute Length Units; Working with absolute lengths; Relative Length Units; em and ex units; Practical issues with em and ex; Pixel lengths. - Intelligent font matching. - Pixel theoryWhat to do?; URLs; Keywords; inherit; CSS2 Units; Summary; Fonts; Font Families; Using Generic Font Families; Specifying a Font Family; Using quotation marks; Font Weights; How Weights Work; Getting Bolder; Lightening Weights; Font Size; Absolute Sizes; Relative Sizes; Percentages and Sizes; Font Size and Inheritance; Using Length Units; Styles and Variants; Fonts with Style; Font Variations; Stretching and Adjusting Fonts; The font Property; Adding the Line Height; Using Shorthands Properly; Using System Fonts; Font Matching; Font-Face Rules; Font-name matching. - The style ElementThe @import Directive; Actual Style Rules; Backward accessibility; CSS Comments; Inline Styles; Summary; Selectors; Basic Rules; Rule Structure; Element Selectors; Declarations and Keywords; Grouping; Grouping Selectors; The universal selector; Grouping Declarations; Grouping Everything; Class and ID Selectors; Class Selectors; Multiple Classes; ID Selectors; Deciding Between Class and ID; Attribute Selectors; Simple Attribute Selection; Selection Based on Exact Attribute Value; Selection Based on Partial Attribute Values; A Particular Attribute Selection Type. - Using Document StructureUnderstanding the Parent-Child Relationship; Descendant Selectors; Selecting Children; Selecting Adjacent Sibling Elements; Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements; Pseudo-Class Selectors; Link pseudo-classes; Dynamic pseudo-classes; Real-world issues with dynamic styling; Selecting a first child; Selecting based on language; Combining pseudo-classes; Pseudo-Element Selectors; Styling the first letter; Styling the first line; Restrictions on :first-letter and :first-line; Style before and after elements; Summary; Structure and the Cascade; Specificity. - CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more. Simply put, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a way to separate a document's structure from its presentation. The benefits of this can be quite profound: CSS allows a much richer document appearance than HTML and

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