Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (3rd Edition)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 416 pages
• Published by: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Edition: 3rd Edition May 5, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0321193121
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0321193124
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

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In this updated edition to their original best-selling classic, the co-creators of CSS clearly, logically, and painlessly explain the hows and whys and ins and outs of the visual formatting language that is their gift to us. The Web would be a poorer place without Messieurs Bos and Lie. Your shelf will be richer for the addition of this book.

Rely on it. Study it. Savor it.

The Indispensible CSS Tutorial and Reference-Straight from the Creators of CSS

Direct from the creators of CSS, this is the definitive guide to CSS, today's indispensable standard for controlling the appearance of any Web or XML document. This book doesn't just show how to use every significant CSS 1 and 2.x feature; it carefully explains the "why" behind today's most valuable CSS design techniques. You'll find practical, downloadable examples throughout-along with essential browser support information and best practices for building high-impact pages and applications.

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition covers every CSS 2.1 improvement and fix, from new height/width definitions in absolutely positioned elements to new clip property calculations. Clear, readable, and thorough, it's the one must-have CSS resource for every Web developer, designer, and content provider. Coverage includes

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  Mastering essential CSS concepts: Rules, declarations, selectors, properties, and more
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  Working with type: From absolute/relative units to font size and weight
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  Understanding CSS objects: Box model, display properties, list styles, and more
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  Exercising total control over spacing and positioning
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  Specifying colors for borders and backgrounds
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  Managing printing: Margins, page breaks, and more
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  Implementing media-specific style sheets for audio rendering, handhelds, and other forms of presentation
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  Moving from HTML extensions to CSS: Five practical case studies
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  Making the most of cascading and inheritance
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  Using external style sheets and @import
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  Integrating CSS with XML documents
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  Optimizing the performance of CSS pages
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  Includes a handy CSS Quick Reference printed on the inside covers

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About The Author


ABOUT THE AUTHORS

HåKON WIUM LIE is the CTO of Opera Software. His job is to make sure Opera remains a better, smaller, and faster browser than the one you know. Before joining Opera in 1999, Håkon worked at W3C, where he was responsible for the development of Cascading Style Sheets-a concept he proposed while working at CERN in 1994. Håkon holds an MS degree in visual studies from the MIT Media Lab.

BERT BOS, along with Lie, was one of the original authors of CSS. He joined W3C in 1995 to launch its internationalization activities and currently coordinates its style sheet activities.


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Reader Reviews
I have gotten each edition of this book as it came out -- giving the still valuable previous edition to the most worthy co-worker. This book (whatever edition!) is rightly regarded as one that belongs by the desk of the astute and experienced Web worker. When the first edition came out, I rejected it for another book on CSS. I figured that a book explaining CSS by the W3C alpha geeks who *created* the CSS recommendation would be too technical and unreadable. I learned how wrong I was. Lie and Bos's classic book turns out to be one of the most readable and clear treatments of CSS you can obtain. I can agree that if you have a previous edition, there probably is no compelling reason to update. Some explanations have been elaborated and browser compatibility is updated for Firefox. The core value remains the same: simple enough for novices, detailed enough for experts. Given the relation of the authors to the official work of the W3C, the book speaks with an authority as no other. Comment | | (Report this)