CSS Mastery

by Budd, Andy

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Title Statements

Full title :CSS Mastery.

Summary

Fully updated to the latest CSS modules, make the journey to CSS mastery as simple and painless as possible. This book dives into advanced aspects of CSS-based design, such as responsive design, modular CSS, and CSS typography. Through a series of easy-to-follow tutorials, you will learn practical CSS techniques you can immediately start using in your daily work. CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS development--this book demystifies the secrets of CSS. While CSS is a relatively simple technology to learn, it is a difficult one to master. When you first start developing sites using CSS, you will come across all kinds of infuriating browser bugs and inconsistencies. It sometimes feels like there are a million and one different techniques to master, spread across a bewildering array of websites. The range of possibilities seems endless and makes for a steep and daunting learning curve. While most books concentrate on basic skills, this one is different, assuming that you already know the basics and why you should be using CSS in your work, and concentrating mainly on advanced techniques. This new edition covers all of the CSS fundamentals such as the importance of meaningful markup, how to structure and maintain your code, and how the CSS layout model really works. This new edition contains: New examples and updated browser support information Full coverage of modular CSS and responsive design Essential information on CSS typography and layout control.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.
Edition:3rd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Apress
Place of Publication:Berkeley, CA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:1 online resource (428 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781430258643, 1430258640, 9781430258636, 1430258632
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4302-5864-3
oclc:ocn956646652
LC Classification:QA75.5-76.95
Dewey Decimal:004

At a Glance; Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Setting the Foundations; Structuring your Code; Maintainability; A Brief History of Markup; Different Versions of HTML and CSS; What Version Should I Use?; Progressive Enhancement; Vendor Prefixes; Conditional Rules and Detection Scripts; Creating Structurally and Semantically Rich HTML; Class and ID Attributes; Structural Elements; Using Divs and Spans; Presentational Text Elements, Redefined; Extending the Semantics of HTML; ARIA Role Attributes; Microformats.

MicrodataValidation; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Your Styles to Hit the Target; CSS Selectors; Child and Sibling Selectors; The Universal Selector; Attribute Selectors; Pseudo-Elements; Pseudo-Classes; Targets and Negations; Structural Pseudo-Classes; Getting Clever with Structural Pseudo-Classes; Form Pseudo-Classes; The Cascade; Specificity; Order of Rules when Resolving the Cascade; Managing Specificity; Specificity and Debugging; Inheritance; Applying Styles to your Document; The Link and Style Elements; Performance; Reducing HTTP Requests; Compressing and Caching Content.

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