Core CSS Cascading Style Sheets (With CD-ROM)
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.31 (518 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0130834564 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 676 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-09-25 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. KEITH SCHENGILI-ROBERTS is Webmaster for the Toronto, CA software firm KL Group, and a long-time writer for The Computer Paper, Canada's largest computer magazine
Schengili-Roberts covers both CSS1 and the new CSS2 standard in-depth, taking care to explain the differences between the two; key browser support issues; and the challenges of migrating to a CSS-based site. Understand key CSS2 properties, including the Box family; visual formatting and visual effects properties; paged media properties; color, background, font, text, table, and user interface properties; and techniques for generated content, automatic numbering, and lists. Detailed appendices provide full CSS1 and CSS2 element listings, color palette information, additional example code, and more.. The expert Web developer's guide to the effective use of style sheet technologies: CSS1, CSS2, and XSL! In this example-rich book, Keith Schengili-Robe
A Customer said Excellent Reference. I wouldn't use this book to learn CSS, but people who are familiar with it and need a reference should definitely consider this book. Not only are all the elements explained, but browser compatibility information is provided for each of them.. richardpinneau.com said Adequate reference volume - probably not a starting point. Just a few notes about the SECOND edition (of which the publisher was kind enough to send me a review copy): Judging from descriptions by reviewers of the first edition, this seems to be a considerably enhanced second edition, addressing complaints described here.The book is easy to look through and use as a reference. The preface describes the target audiences as already "web authors" who want to become more effective. If you are completely new to CSS, the book does a nice step-by-step education of the in. Very Good Intermediate-level Reference Guide veronica floss Last week, my employer told me to redesign several online html templates used to provide product documentation to customers. The new design needs to use html today, but be ready to support XML in the future. I decided that css style sheets were the way to go, but I know little about how to implement them. I am not a programmer -- just a "power-amateur." I needed help. My local Barnes and Noble had one book in the whole MonsterStore about css -- It was "Core CSS." I bought it because I needed it immediately
But support for CSS in today's browsers is spotty. It's a solid reference that will make CSS understandable to anyone, regardless of their level of Web expertise. With a comprehensive reference to all CSS1 and CSS2 features and an excellent survey of which features work in eight of today's browsers, this book shows off the strengths of style sheets for the next generation of Web content. Particularly for developers, CSS allows more precise control of elements inside browsers, making it a lot easier to create Web clients that compete with traditional stand-alone applications. Although still under construction, the CSS1 and CSS2 standards will certa