Core CSS

Comprehensive browser and platform compatibility Info

In-depth examples throughout, plus an extensive CSS1/CSS2 reference section

The expert Web developer's guide to style sheets: CSS1 and CSS2! Core CSS is an example-rich guide that shows experienced Web developers exactly how to achieve great results with CSS1 and CSS2! In this example-rich book, Keith Schengili-Roberts shows experienced Web developers all they need to know to achieve great results with the latest style-sheet technologies. Schengili-Roberts provides in-depth coverage of both CSS1 and the recent CSS2 standard, taking care to explain the differences between the two. Understand key CSS2 families of properties, including aural (sound-based) style sheets, automatically generated content, user interface properties and much more. This book is the most comprehensive listing available on CSS compatibility across browsers and operating systems, so Web masters can finally know what CSS properties are "safe" to use.

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The Origins of Cascading Style Sheets

Chapter 2: The Beginning of HTML and the "Browser Wars"

Chapter 3: HTML and it's Relationship to CSS

Chapter 4: Browser Adoption of CSS

Part 2: CSSI

Chapter 5: Overview

Chapter 6: Implementation of Basic CSS Consepts

Chapter 7: The Cascade

Chapter 8: CSS Units

Chapter 9: Pseudo-Classes and Psudo-Elements

Chapter 10: Font Properties

Chapter 11: The Color adn Background Famile of Properties

Chapter 12: The Text Famil of Properties

Chapter 13: The Box Family of Properties

Chapter 14: The Clasification of Family of Properties

Part 3: CSS2

Chapter 15: Overview

Chapter 16: Selectore, Pseudo-elements and PSeudo-Classes

Chapter 17: New Media Types

Chapter 18: The Box of Properties

Chapter 19: Visual Formatting Family of Properties

Chapter 20: Detailed Visual Formatting Family of Properties

Chapter 21: Visual Effects Properties

Chapter 22: Generated Content Automatic Numbering and Lists

Chapter 23: Page Media Family of Properties

Chapter 24: Font Family Properties

Chapter 25: Text Family Properties

Chapter 26: Table Family Properties

Chapter 27: User Interface Properties

Chapter 28: Aural Style Sheet Properties

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