Stylin’ with CSS, 2nd Edition

Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables.

Learn to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS  (no JavaScript required). Discover how to design code that works on the latest standard-compliant browsers, such as IE7 and current versions of Firefox, Safari, and Opera, while working around the quirks of the older ones. With a mastery of CSS, your web design capabilities will move to a new level, and everything you need to know to get started and build your skills is right here in this book. You’ll be stylin’ in no time!

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. XHTML : giving structure to content
Chapter 2. How CSS works
Chapter 3. Stylin’ fonts and text
Chapter 4. Positioning elements
Chapter 5. Basic page layout
Chapter 6. Advanced page layout
Chapter 7. Creating interface components
Chapter 8. Building Web sites

Appendix. CSS properties and values

Book Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Press; 2nd Edition (December 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321525566
• ISBN-13: 978-0321525567