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Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, Second Edition
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by Owen Briggs, Steven Champeon, Eric Costello, and Matt Patterson
Sales Rank: 262717
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: friends of ED; 2nd ed. edition April 1, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159059231X
ISBN-13: 978-1590592311
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Product Description
CSS is one of the trio of core client-side web professional skills: HTML for markup, JavaScript for dynamism, and CSS for style. All web professionals who want to take their page design to the next level, with all the advantages that CSS brings, will need this book. This book is a focused guide to using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for the visual design of web pages. It provides concise coverage of all the essential CSS concepts developers need to learn (such as separating content from presentation, block and inline elements, inheritance and cascade, the box model, typography, etc). It also covers the syntax needed to effectively use CSS with your markup document (for example CSS rules, how to structure a style sheet, linking style sheets to your (X)HTML documents, CSS boxes etc). CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a powerful technology that can be used to add style and structure to your web pages without needing to resort to "hacks" such as HTML table layouts and "spacer images". However, this is not the only advantage over other styling methods. You can specify your CSS styles in a separate file, then apply those styles to every page in your web site. When you want to change a style on your site, you can do it by modifying one style sheet, rather having to update every page. This is only one example of the many advantages CSS brings to your web development work. Summary of Contents: - 1 Foundation Concepts
- 2 Overview of Presentation
- 3 Markup with Meaning
- 4 Fundamentals
- 5 Rules
- 6 Attaching CSS to Your Markup
- 7 Typography
- 8 Boxes, Boxes, Boxes
- 9 Styling Tables with CSS
- 10 Cross-Browser CSS
- 11 Troubleshooting
- 12 CSS Design Projects
Projects include: - Weblog - Dave Shea
- Research Institute Site - John Simons
- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra - Mike Switzer
- Photo Gallery - Dan Rubin
- Image Viewer - Mike Pick
- Real Estate Portal - Cornelia Lange
Book Info
Text provides an introduction to some of the theory behind Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); including the core syntax, rule structure, attaching CSS to markup, typography, box models, and cross-browser techniques. Previous edition: c2002. Softcover.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is useful either as a first-time guide to understanding CSS and its syntax (as well as usage), or as a complimentary title to other well-known CSS books like those from Eric Meyer. The combination I have gotten the most benefit from, was reading through Meyer's Definitive Reference (2e, O'Reilly) a couple times, and then brushing up on things with this book. I think that Meyer's book (and he has more than one - I'm just talking about the one noted above) is a great coding reference and theory primer, while this book is more useful as a means of getting code on the page, trying it out and going back to see where your mistakes were. One reason I say that is that the diagrams and explanations used in this book are a little bit easier to grasp and apply in some cases. It's a bit more accessible, both in terms of presentation and writing style, while not being "dumbed down" in the least. The way the book is organized is also preferable to other web references I've read (CSS and otherwise). All in all, highly recommended if you're looking to take your CSS skills from "I know how to apply styles to fonts and drag DIVs onto my page" to "I know how to code custom DIVs and classes that give me exactly the look I want while keeping the code accessible and small."
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