CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web

by Eric Meyer

Overview

When you're working with CSS and need an answer now, this concise yet comprehensive quick reference provides the essential information you need. Revised and updated for CSS3, this fifth edition is ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers.

You'll find a short introduction to the key concepts of CSS and alphabetical summaries of CSS selectors and properties. You'll also discover information on new properties, including grid, flexbox, clipping, masking, and compositing.

• Quickly find the information you need
• Explore CSS concepts, values, selectors and queries, and properties
• Learn how new features complement and extend your CSS practices
• Discover new properties including animations, grid, flexbox, masking, filtering, and compositing in this new edition

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492033394
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/07/2018
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

An internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards, Eric has been working on the web since late 1993. He is the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting, a co-founder of the microformats movement, and co-founder (with Jeffrey Zeldman) of An Event Apart, the design conference series for people who make web sites. Beginning in early 1994, Eric was the campus Web coordinator for Case Western Reserve University, where he authored a widely acclaimed series of three HTML tutorials and was project lead for the online version of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History combined with the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, the first example of an encyclopedia of urban history being fully and freely published on the Web.

Table of Contents

	Conventions Used in This Book	1
	Adding Styles to HTML and XHTML	2
	Rule Structure	5
	Style Precedence	6
	Element Classification	8
	Element Display Roles	9
	Basic Visual Layout	10
	Floating Rules	13
	Positioning Rules	15
	Table Layout	21
	Values	28
	Selectors	33
	Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements	38
	Property Reference	43
	Tables	101
	Paged Media	105
	Dropped from CSS2.1	108
	Visual Styles	108
	Paged Media	110
	Aural Styles	111
	Index	121