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Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd Edition
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Richard York
Wrox Press, Paperback, 2nd edition, Published May 2007, 688 pages, ISBN 0470096977
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* Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web developers to define styles to apply to items on thousands of Web pages, rather than marking up the formatting of each item individually

* The fantastically successful first edition introduced readers to Richard York's unparalleled CSS skills and this edition offers updates for Firefox 2, Internet Explorer, and other browsers with improved CSS support

* Uses a standardized approach to CSS in an example-packed, step-by-step format, with all of the book's examples in full-color screen shots

* The new color layout in this edition shows readers full-color results and uses color as a teaching tool in emphasizing coding techniques

* Other key enhancements to this edition include updated discussions of new Web browser versions (Internet Explorer 7 and others) and their CSS improvements

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: The Basics.

Chapter 1: Introducing Cascading Style Sheets.

Chapter 2: The Essentials.

Chapter 3: Selectors.

Chapter 4: The Cascade and Inheritance.

Part II: Properties.

Chapter 5: Text Manipulation.

Chapter 6: Fonts.

Chapter 7: The Box Model.

Chapter 8: CSS Buoyancy: Floating and Vertical Alignment.

Chapter 9: List Properties.

Chapter 10: Backgrounds.

Chapter 11: Positioning.

Chapter 12: Tables.

Part III: Advanced CSS and Alternative Media.

Chapter 13: Styling for Print.

Chapter 14: XML 501

Chapter 15: The Cursor Property.

Appendix A: Answers to Exercises.

Appendix B: CSS Reference.

Appendix C: CSS Colors.

Appendix D: Browser Rendering Modes.

Index.

 

About the Author

Richard York is lead Web Application Developer for Trilithic, Inc. a major broadband and RF telecommunications provider. He is well known for his active participation in the Wrox p2p discussion forums on many topics including CSS and PHP where he has made more than 1400 posts and is one of the top ten posters in this important community. He is an active member of the PHP community, contributing to the Pear module.




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