Demonstrates the control and flexibility Cascading Style Sheets bring to Web design, covering selectors and structure, units, text manipulation, colors, backgrounds, borders, visual formatting, and positioning.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example will allow readers to learn the fundamentals of CSS by providing a teaching progression that takes them through small, gradual steps. It provides examples using CSS in "real world" scenarios. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example follows a logical, linear teaching progression that enables the reader to learn the fundamentals of CSS to utilize more control over the appearance and styling of Web pages. This book provides accessible and practical examples not found in existing CSS titles and provides information needed for those who want to move beyond their HTML skills for Web development and design.

In this book, the insiders who created the W3C Cascading Style Sheet standard show readers exactly how to use it, with up-to-date coverage of printing, positioning, scripting fonts and more.

Updated and revised to reflect changes to cascading style sheets (CSS) development procedures since the first edition was published, Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd Edition offers a hands-on look at designing standards-based, large-scale, professional-level CSS web sites. Understand designers’ processes from start to finish and gain insight into how designers overcome a site’s unique set of challenges and obstacles. Become comfortable with solving common problems, learn the best practices for using XHMTL with CSS, orchestrate a new look for a blog, tackle browser-compatibility issues and develop functional navigational structures.

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. This handy resource gives you programming essentials at your fingertips, including all the new tags and features in CSS 2.0 The most authoritative quick reference available for CSS programmers. This handy resource gives you programming essentials at your fingertips, including all the new tags and features in CSS 2.0. You'll get concise information on designing and deploying complex style sheets as well as details on browser support.

CSS is the HTML 4.0-approved method for controlling visual presentation on Web pages. This guide offers a detailed review of CSS1 properties and how they interact and shows how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation. Instead of simply describing how things work in theory, this book covers CSS in a way that acknowledges and describes current browser support.