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Beginning CSS
cascading style sheets for Web design

Synopsis:

Cascading style sheets (CSS) are the modern standard for website presentation. When combined with a structural markup language such as HTML, XHTML, or XML (though not limited to these), cascading style sheets provide Internet browsers with the information that enables them to present all the visual aspects of a web document. Cascading style sheets apply things such as borders, spacing between paragraphs, headings or images, control of font faces or font colors, background colors and images, textual effects such as underlined or strike-through text, layering, positioning, and a number of other presentational effects. CSS controls the presentational aspects of a web page's design, whereas HTML, XHTML, or XML controls the structure of a web page, which means little more than determining that certain text is a heading, other text is a paragraph, still other text is a list of hyperlinks, and so on. CSS provides enhanced and precise visual rendering; markup languages such as HTML provid

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments. Introduction.

Part I, The Basics. Chapter 1, Introducing Cascading Style Sheets. Chapter 2, The Essentials. Chapter 3, Selectors. Chapter 4, The Cascade and Inheritance.

Part II, Properties. Chapter 5, Text Manipulation. Chapter 6, Fonts. Chapter 7, The Box Model. Chapter 8, CSS Buoyancy, Floating and Vertical Alignment. Chapter 9, List Properties. Chapter 10, Backgrounds. Chapter 11, Positioning. Chapter 12, Tables.

Part Iii, Advanced CSS and Alternative Media. Chapter 13, Styling for Print. Chapter 14, XML 501 Chapter 15, The Cursor Property. Appendix A, Answers to Exercises. Appendix B, CSS Reference. Appendix C, CSS Colors. Appendix D, Browser Rendering Modes. Index.

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