Overview

You know you should use cascading style sheets (CSS) to simplify your web pages, but how do you use CSS? Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours, Second Edition is a carefully organized, well-written tutorial that teaches you not only how to use cascading style sheets, but also how to make smart decisions about how and when to apply CSS, based on browser support and intended effects. You'll cover standards compliant CSS, with an emphasis on providing both a theoretical understanding and practical experience at implementing CSS.  In 24 straightforward one-hour long lessons, you learn by accomplishing hands-on tasks that can be applied to your own site. The tutorials have been updated for this second edition to cover browsers that have become more widely used since the release of the first edition. It also has been updated to cover styling of forms, troubleshooting CSS, and other important new developments.

Full Product Details

Author:   Kynn Bartlett
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Sams Publishing
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 17.90cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9780672329067

ISBN 10:   0672329069
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   06 July 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Introduction to CSS Hour 1: Understanding CSS What Are Cascading Style Sheets? The Origin of Cascading Style Sheets CSS in Web Design Browser Support Summary Workshop Hour 2: Getting Started with CSS Creating a Style Sheet Writing CSS Rules Linking a Style Sheet to an HTML Page Viewing Your Style Sheet Summary Workshop Hour 3: Browser Support for CSS The Browser Problem Modern Browsers and CSS Summary Workshop Hour 4: Using CSS with HTML Types of HTML Style Sheets in HTML Classes and IDs Summary Workshop Part II: Core Principles of CSS Hour 5: Selectors Simple Selectors Combining Simple Selectors Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements Summary Workshop Hour 6: The CSS Box Model Displaying Content in CSS Understanding the Box Model Box Display Properties Summary Workshop Hour 7: Cascading and Inheritance How the Cascade Works User-Defined Style Sheets Importing CSS Inheritance Summary Workshop Hour 8: Advanced Selectors Attribute Selectors Summary Workshop Part III: Styling Text with CSS Hour 9: Fonts and Font Families Specifying Font Properties Font Families Summary Workshop Hour 10: Text Colors and Effects Text Colors Special Text Effects Controlling Text Spacing Summary Workshop Hour 11: Backgrounds and Background Colors Setting Background Color Using Background Images Summary Workshop Hour 12: Styling Links CSS for Link Styling Common Link-Styling Techniques Summary Workshop Hour 13: Lists List Formatting Summary Workshop Hour 14: Forms Styling Form Controls Browser Support for Form Styles Summary Workshop Part IV: Layout with CSS Hour 15: Alignment Aligning and Indenting Text Floating Content Summary Workshop Hour 16: Borders and Boxes Adjusting Boxes Displaying Boxes Summary Workshop Hour 17: Styling Tables Table Formatting Applying Other Styles to Tables Summary Workshop Hour 18: Box Sizing and Offset Sizing Content Content Overflow Summary Workshop Hour 19: Absolute and Fixed Positioning Positioning Content Absolute Positioning Layered Content Fixed Positioning Summary Workshop Hour 20: Page Layout in CSS Laying Out the Page Summary Workshop Part V: Mastering CSS Hour 21: Web Design with CSS Basic Principles of Web Design The Role of CSS in Web Design Alternate Style Sheets Summary Workshop Hour 22: Accessibility and Print Media What Is Accessibility? Aural Cascading Style Sheets Media-Specific Style Sheets CSS Properties for the print Medium Summary Workshop Hour 23: User Interface and Generated Content User Interface Properties Creating Content Summary Workshop Hour 24: Troubleshooting and Browser Hacks Troubleshooting Style Sheets Browser Hacks Proprietary CSS Summary Workshop Part VI: Appendixes Appendix A: Replacing Presentational HTML with CSS Appendix B: Glossary Part VII: Bonus Content Bonus Hour 1: CSS and JavaScript What Is JavaScript? Using JavaScript with CSS Summary Bonus Hour 2: CSS and XML What Is XML? Displaying XML XML-based Languages and CSS Summary

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Kynn Bartlett has taught thousands the basic principles of good Web design through online courses and his participation in W3C technical working groups, the HTML Writers Guild, and the Web Standards Project education FAQ. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and provides consulting for businesses and government agencies. Kynn is the author of the first edition of this book.

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