Cascading Style Sheets - Separating Content from Presentation

This is a focused guide to using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for thé visual design of web pages. It's practical, there's no fluff, and thé core CSS skills are balanced by techniques for using thé technology in today's browsers.
With CSS, we can lay out HTML data on a web page without either misusing tags or using hacks to get thé page looking right. The complète séparation of content from présentation enables web professionals to change thé entire design of a site by modifying one styiesheet, rather than updating every document that thé web site contains.

WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?
CSS is one of thé trio of core client-side web professional skills: HTML for markup, JavaScript for dynamism, and CSS for style. AH web professionals who want to take their page design to thé next level, with ail thé advantages that CSS brings, will need this book.
INCLUDES:

• Extensive introduction to how professionals think about CSS design
• CSS concepts, such as cascade, inheritance, and thé box model CSS syntax, including thé rule structure and différent types of stylesheets
• Coverage of common cross-browser CSS techniques
• Working CSS projects for you to adapt to your needs

Contents

• CSS and XHTML Overview
• Foundation Concepts
• Creating CSS Based Pages
• Markup with Meaning
• Writing CSS and XHTML pages
• Cascade and Inheritance
• Rules and Selectors
• Attaching CSS to Markup
• Typography
• Boxes, Boxes, Boxes
• The real world
• Cross-browser CSS
• Troubleshooting
• CSS Projects