CSS – The Missing Manual, 4e

CSS lets you create professional-looking websites, but learning its finer points can be tricky—even for seasoned web developers. This fully updated edition provides the most modern and effective tips, tricks, and tutorial-based instruction on CSS available today. Learn how to use new tools such as Flexbox and Sass to build web pages that look great and run fast on any desktop or mobile device. Ideal for casual and experienced designers alike.
The important stuff you need to know:

• Start with the basics. Write CSS-friendly HTML, including the HTML5 tags recognized by today's browsers.
• Design for mobile devices. Create web pages that look great when visitors use them on the go.
• Make your pages work for you. Add animations that capture the imagination, and forms that get the job done.
• Take control of page layouts. Use professional design techniques such as floats and positioning.
• Make your layouts more flexible. Design websites with Flexbox that adjust to different devices and screen sizes.
• Work more efficiently. Write less CSS code and work with smaller files, using Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass).

List of contents

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  The Missing Credits
  


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  Introduction
  


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  Part 1: CSS Basics
  
  
  
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    Chapter 1: HTML and CSS
    
  
  
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    Chapter 2: Creating Styles and Style Sheets
    
  
  
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    Chapter 3: Selectors: Identifying What to Style
    
  
  
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    Chapter 4: Saving Time with Style Inheritance
    
  
  
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    Chapter 5: Managing Multiple Styles: The Cascade
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  Part 2: Applied CSS
  
  
  
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    Chapter 6: Formatting Text
    
  
  
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    Chapter 7: Margins, Padding, and Borders
    
  
  
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    Chapter 8: Adding Graphics to Web Pages
    
  
  
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    Chapter 9: Sprucing Up Your Site's Navigation
    
  
  
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    Chapter 10: CSS Transforms, Transitions, and Animations
    
  
  
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    Chapter 11: Formatting Tables and Forms
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  Part 3: CSS Page Layout
  
  
  
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    Chapter 12: Introducing CSS Layout
    
  
  
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    Chapter 13: Building Float-Based Layouts
    
  
  
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    Chapter 14: Positioning Elements on a Web Page
    
  
  
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    Chapter 15: Responsive Web Design
    
  
  
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    Chapter 16: Using a CSS Grid System
    
  
  
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    Chapter 17: Modern Web Layout with Flexbox
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  Part 4: Advanced CSS
  
  
  
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    Chapter 18: Improving Your CSS Habits
    
  
  
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    Chapter 19: More Powerful Styling with Sass
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  Part 5: Appendixes
  
  
  
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    CSS Property Reference
    
  
  
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    CSS Resources
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  About the author

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  David Sawyer McFarland, president of Sawyer McFarland Media, has been building and managing websites since 1995. He is also a writer and trainer, and teaches in the Portland State University multimedia program. He wrote the bestselling Missing Manual titles on Adobe Dreamweaver, CSS, and JavaScript.
  
  
  
  

  Summary

  CSS lets you create professional-looking websites, but learning its finer points can be tricky-even for seasoned web developers. This fully updated edition provides the most modern and effective tips, tricks, and tutorial-based instruction on CSS available today.

Product details

• Authors: David McFarland, David Sawyer Mcfarland
• Publisher: O'Reilly
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781491918050
• ISBN: 978-1-4919-1805-0
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 233 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 1224 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Web programming, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Programming