CSS Mastery

These days, web designers and developers take more care in designing and building web sites. Less readily do they turn to old-fashioned techniques such as GIF spacers, tables for layout, and deprecated HTML elements, which can cause accessibility/usability problems and are just bad practice. There are three main web standards married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs-XHTML for data structure, JavaScript for dynamic effects, and Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data.This book covers advanced Cascading Style Sheet techniques, and it is recommended that you have some knowledge of CSS and web design basics before reading this book. Included are all the techniques you need to master CSS and craft modern, standards-compliant web page designs. We don't bore you with pages of theory; instead, we jump straight into practical solutions, allowing you to get what you need as quickly as possible.Renowned web designer Andy Budd starts off by introducing the elements of an effective CSS toolkit, including good working practices, the cascade, the box model, relative and absolute positioning, floating, and more. He then delves into advanced techniques like replacing images, styling links and lists, creating navigation menus, making forms look good, debugging and overcoming browser quirks, and hacking and filtering. The book is rounded off with two case studies to give you inspiration for your own designs, written by two more of the world's finest web designers, Simon Collinson and Cameron Moll. TOC:Setting the Foundations.- CSS Basics Recap.- Background Images and Image Replacement.- Styling Links.- Styling Lists and Creating Navbars.- Making Forms Look Good.- Pure CSS Layout.- Bugs.- Hacks and Filters.- Positioned Layout.- Floated Layout.