CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer

Overview

When you're working with CSS and need a quick answer, CSS Pocket Reference delivers. This handy, concise book provides all of the essential information you need to implement CSS on the fly. Ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers, the 4th edition is revised and updated for CSS3, the latest version of the Cascading Style Sheet specification. Along with a complete alphabetical reference to CSS3 selectors and properties, you'll also find a short introduction to the key concepts of CSS.

Based on Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, this reference is an easy-to-use cheatsheet of the CSS specifications you need for any task at hand. This book helps you:

• Quickly find and adapt the style elements you need
• Learn how CSS3 features complement and extend your CSS practices
• Discover new value types and new CSS selectors
• Implement drop shadows, multiple backgrounds, rounded corners, and border images
• Get new information about transforms and transitions

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449313050
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/12/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
Sales rank:	1,101,151
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Eric A. Meyer is an internationally recognized expert, author, and speaker on HTML, CSS, and web standards, and the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting (www.complexspiral.com). In addition to writing numerous books on CSS, Eric created the CSS Browser Compatibility Charts and coordinated the authoring and creation of the W3C's official CSS Test Suite.

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