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9780470684160

Smashing CSS : Professional Techniques for Modern Layout

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470684160

  • ISBN10:

    047068416X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-11-01
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

True to the Smashing Magazine's promise, Smashing CSS smashes readers with the CSS information they need to make their life easier. Really. Inside, CSS expert and best-selling author Eric A. Meyer shares 100 professional techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets to build modern web sites.Techniques include: Using the right tools - Firebug, Dragonfly, XRAY and more Throwing elements offscreen/hiding them body/html backgrounds in XHTML Serving CSS via HTTP headers More than 15 layout techniques including Clearfix, Two/Three simple columns, Faux columns, One True Layout, Holy Grail, Em-Based Layout, Fluid Grids, Sticky footers, and more A variety of CSS effects including CSS popups, Boxpunching, Rounded corners, CSS Sprites, Sliding doors, Liquid bleach, Ragged floats, and more CSS table styling including Using thead, tfoot, and tbody, Row headers, Column-oriented styling (classes), Styling data tables w/ jQuery, Tables to graphs, Tables to maps, and more CSS3 coverage including rounded corners, multiple backgrounds, RGBa, using jQuery to do CSS3 selectionsand so much more.

Author Biography

Eric Meyer is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards, and has been working on the Web since 1993. Smashing CSS is for developers who already have some experience with CSS and JavaScript and are ready for more advanced techniques.

Smashing Magazine (smashingmagazine.com) is one of the world's most popular web design sites. True to the Smashing mission, the Smashing Magazine book series delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers.

Table of Contents

PART I: FUNDAMENTALS.

Chapter 1: Tools.

Firebug.

Web Developer Toolbar.

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (or Tools).

Dragonfly (for Opera).

Web Inspector (Safari).

XRAY.

SelectORacle.

Diagnostic Style Sheet.

Reboot Styles.

IE9.js.

Chapter 2: Selectors.

Pseudo What?

Targets with Style.

Specificity.

Importance.

What Happens when You omit Shorthand Value Keywords.

Selectively Overriding Shorthands.

Universal Selection.

ID vs. Class.

ID with Class.

Multiclassing.

Simple Attribute Selection.

Attribute Selection of Classes.

ID vs. Attribute Selector.

Substring Attribute Selection.

More Substring Attribute Selection.

Child Selection.

Simulated Partial Child Selection.

Sibling Selection.

Generating Content.

PART II: ESSENTIALS.

Chapter 3: Tips.

Validate!

Ordering Your Font Values.

Rolling in Line-Height.

Unitless Line-Height Values.

Avoid Style-less Border Values.

Controlling Border Appearance with Color.

Suppressing Element Display.

Suppressing Element Visibility.

Th rowing Elements Off -screen.

Image Replacement.

Print Styles.

Developing Print Styles.

Block-level Links.

Margin or Padding?

Outdenting Lists.

Bulleting Lists.

Background Bullets.

Generating Bullets.

You Have More Containers than You Think.

Document Backgrounds.

Server-specifi c CSS.

Chapter 4: Layouts.

Outlines Instead of Borders.

Centering Block Boxes.

Float containment: overflow.

Float containment: floating.

Clearfixing.

Adjacent Clearing.

Two Simple Columns.

Th ree Simple Columns.

Faux Columns.

Liquid Bleach.

The One True Layout.

The Holy Grail.

Fluid Grids.

Em-Based Layout.

Negative Margins in Flow.

Positioning Within a Context.

Pushing out of the Containing Block.

Fixed headers and footers.

Chapter 5: Eff ects.

Complexspiral.

CSS Pop-ups.

CSS Menus.

Boxpunching.

Pre-CSS 3 Rounded Corners.

CSS 3 Rounded Corners.

CSS Sprites.

Sliding Doors.

Clipped Sliding Doors.

CSS Parallax.

Ragged Floats.

Better Ragged Floats.

Boxing Your Images.

Constrained Images.

PART III: CUTTING EDGE.

Chapter 6: Tables.

Head, Body, Foot.

Row Headers.

Column-oriented Styling.

Table Mapping.

Table Graphs.

Chapter 7: Th e (Near) Future.

Styling HTML 5.

Classing like HTML 5.

Media Queries.

Styling Occasional Children.

Styling Occasional Columns.

RGB Alpha Color.

HSL and HSL Alpha Color.

Shadowy Styles.

Multiple Backgrounds.

2D Transforms.

Index.

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