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If you're a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and less time and effort expended, this book is for you. This revised fifth edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications. Authors Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl show you how to improve user experience, speed development, avoid potential bugs, and add life and depth to your applications through layout, show more transitions and animations, borders, backgrounds, text properties, and many other tools and techniques. We read the specs so you don't have to! This guide covers: Selectors, specificity, and the cascade, including information on the new cascade layers New and old CSS values and units, including CSS variables and ways to size based on viewports Details on font technology and ways to use any available font variants Text styling, from basic decoration to changing the entire writing mode Padding, borders, outlines, and margins, now discussed in terms of the new block- and inline-direction layout paradigm used by modern browsers Colors, backgrounds, and gradients, including the conic gradients Accessible data tables Flexible box and grid layout systems, including new subgrid capabilities 2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and animation Filters, blending, clipping, and masking Media, feature, and container queries. show lessTags
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Somewhat dated and showing its age (this book does not cover CSS3, for instance), and is at this point an O'Reilly title that deserves an update to make it current with modern CSS standards and practices. Nevertheless, it's still quite valuable for understanding everything pre-CSS3 and remains a standard of the web developer bookshelf.
If you do CSS, you need this. Still, the religious element is too high—pretending that CSS is something independent of how browsers actually display it, and speaking of "standards" as something normative.
I can usually find the answers I need in this book, so it is handy to have. I use this reference more than any other CSS book.
A must-have for anyone who does serious work with style sheets. This edition stops at css2.1
If you make web pages, you must have this book. No exceptions.
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Series
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
- Original publication date
- 2000-05
- First words
- In many ways, the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specification represents a unique development in the history of the World Wide Web.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If nono of this works, and you really need (or even want) to use external style sheets, you many have to consider switching ISPs.
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Technology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 006.7 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Special computer methods (AI, barcoding, VR, web design, social media) Multimedia systems
- LCC
- QA76.76 .H94 .M47 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science Computer software
- BISAC
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- 1,225
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- 5 — Chinese, English, French, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 20
- UPCs
- 3
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- 6