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Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours Kynn Bartlett

Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours By Kynn Bartlett

Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours by Kynn Bartlett


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Contains instructions that walk you through the most common CSS-Cascading Style Sheets tasks Q&As, quizzes, and activities. This work helps you learn how to: use style sheets to create attractive, usable Web designs; write style sheets that work in all the major browsers; and more.

Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours Summary

Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours by Kynn Bartlett

You know you should use cascading style sheets (CSS) to simplify your web pages, but how do you use CSS? Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours, Second Edition is a carefully organized, well-written tutorial that teaches you not only how to use cascading style sheets, but also how to make smart decisions about how and when to apply CSS, based on browser support and intended effects. You'll cover standards compliant CSS, with an emphasis on providing both a theoretical understanding and practical experience at implementing CSS. In 24 straightforward one-hour long lessons, you learn by accomplishing hands-on tasks that can be applied to your own site. The tutorials have been updated for this second edition to cover browsers that have become more widely used since the release of the first edition. It also has been updated to cover styling of forms, troubleshooting CSS, and other important new developments.

About Kynn Bartlett

Kynn Bartlett has taught thousands the basic principles of good Web design through online courses and his participation in W3C technical working groups, the HTML Writers Guild, and the Web Standards Project education FAQ. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and provides consulting for businesses and government agencies. Kynn is the author of the first edition of this book.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Introduction to CSS

Hour 1: Understanding CSS

What Are Cascading Style Sheets?

The Origin of Cascading Style Sheets

CSS in Web Design

Browser Support

Summary

Workshop

Hour 2: Getting Started with CSS

Creating a Style Sheet

Writing CSS Rules

Linking a Style Sheet to an HTML Page

Viewing Your Style Sheet

Summary

Workshop

Hour 3: Browser Support for CSS

The Browser Problem

Modern Browsers and CSS

Summary

Workshop

Hour 4: Using CSS with HTML

Types of HTML

Style Sheets in HTML

Classes and IDs

Summary

Workshop

Part II: Core Principles of CSS

Hour 5: Selectors

Simple Selectors

Combining Simple Selectors

Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements

Summary

Workshop

Hour 6: The CSS Box Model

Displaying Content in CSS

Understanding the Box Model

Box Display Properties

Summary

Workshop

Hour 7: Cascading and Inheritance

How the Cascade Works

User-Defined Style Sheets

Importing CSS

Inheritance

Summary

Workshop

Hour 8: Advanced Selectors

Attribute Selectors

Summary

Workshop

Part III: Styling Text with CSS

Hour 9: Fonts and Font Families

Specifying Font Properties

Font Families

Summary

Workshop

Hour 10: Text Colors and Effects

Text Colors

Special Text Effects

Controlling Text Spacing

Summary

Workshop

Hour 11: Backgrounds and Background Colors

Setting Background Color

Using Background Images

Summary

Workshop

Hour 12: Styling Links

CSS for Link Styling

Common Link-Styling Techniques

Summary

Workshop

Hour 13: Lists

List Formatting

Summary

Workshop

Hour 14: Forms

Styling Form Controls

Browser Support for Form Styles

Summary

Workshop

Part IV: Layout with CSS

Hour 15: Alignment

Aligning and Indenting Text

Floating Content

Summary

Workshop

Hour 16: Borders and Boxes

Adjusting Boxes

Displaying Boxes

Summary

Workshop

Hour 17: Styling Tables

Table Formatting

Applying Other Styles to Tables

Summary

Workshop

Hour 18: Box Sizing and Offset

Sizing Content

Content Overflow

Summary

Workshop

Hour 19: Absolute and Fixed Positioning

Positioning Content

Absolute Positioning

Layered Content

Fixed Positioning

Summary

Workshop

Hour 20: Page Layout in CSS

Laying Out the Page

Summary

Workshop

Part V: Mastering CSS

Hour 21: Web Design with CSS

Basic Principles of Web Design

The Role of CSS in Web Design

Alternate Style Sheets

Summary

Workshop

Hour 22: Accessibility and Print Media

What Is Accessibility?

Aural Cascading Style Sheets

Media-Specific Style Sheets

CSS Properties for the print Medium

Summary

Workshop

Hour 23: User Interface and Generated Content

User Interface Properties

Creating Content

Summary

Workshop

Hour 24: Troubleshooting and Browser Hacks

Troubleshooting Style Sheets

Browser Hacks

Proprietary CSS

Summary

Workshop

Part VI: Appendixes

Appendix A: Replacing Presentational HTML with CSS

Appendix B: Glossary

Part VII: Bonus Content

Bonus Hour 1: CSS and JavaScript

What Is JavaScript?

Using JavaScript with CSS

Summary

Bonus Hour 2: CSS and XML

What Is XML?

Displaying XML

XML-based Languages and CSS

Summary

Additional information

GOR001534273
9780672329067
0672329069
Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours by Kynn Bartlett
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Pearson Education (US)
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