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This book should be on every web content provider, every web designer's shelf. It is the definitive reference on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the elegant and efficient way to add and manage elements of style (fonts, color, layout) within web documents. Cascading Style Sheets, Second edition, is a clear, readable, informative and thorough look at the World Wide Web Consortium's specification for CSS2, written by the World's leading authorities on CSS.
This book contains:
complete coverage of CSSI and CSS2
background information and practical examples
information on which browsers support which CSS features
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its vendor-neutral operability. It is an international consortium with over 300 Member organizations.
1. The Web and HTML.
The Web.
Markup Languages.
Dodging the Limitations of HTML.
HTML Basics.
Document Trees.
Rules and Style Sheets.
“Gluing” Style Sheets to the Document.
Browsers and CSS.
Tree structures and inheritance.
Overriding Inheritance.
Properties that don’t inherit.
Common tasks with CSS.
A word about Cascading.
Selector Schemes.
Type Selectors.
Simple attribute selectors.
The STYLE Attribute.
Combining Selector Types.
Simple contextual selectors.
External information: pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements.
DIV and SPAN.
Advanced attribute selectors.
Advanced contextual selectors.
Advanced pseudo-classes.
Advanced pseudo-elements.
The “any” selector.
Typesetting terminology.
Classifying font families.
The font-family property.
Font metrics.
Length units.
Percentages as values.
The font-size property.
The font-style property.
The font-variant property.
The font-weight property.
The font property.
The font-stretch property.
Numbers as values.
The font-size adjust property.
The text-decoration property.
The text-transform property.
More information about fonts.
Prerequisites for WebFonts.
Font Descriptions.
Font Descriptors.
Basic font descriptors.
Resource descriptors.
The Unicode-range descriptor.