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The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2^nd Edition

“The most complete question-and-answer book on CSS”

• Learn practical solutions to complex CSS problems.
• Design flexible two and three column layouts.
• Combine CSS with images to create impressive visual effects.
• Build navigation, rollovers, and menus without JavaScript.
• Discover solutions to cross-browser compatibility problems.

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Overview

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of best practice solutions to the most challenging CSS problems. The second edition of this best-selling book, now in full color, has been completely revised and updated to cover the latest techniques and newer browsers, including Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7.

It’s the most complete question-and-answer book on CSS, with over 100 tutorials that’ll show you how to gain more control over the appearance of your web page, create sophisticated Web page navigation controls, design for today’s alternative browsing devices including phones and screen readers, and much more.

The CSS code used to create each of the components is available for download and guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible.

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What Will You Learn?

The code examples provided with The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks will get you started quickly, allowing you to add stylish effects to your web site.

This book will show you how to:

• Construct robust CSS layouts that work every time.
• Create sleek drop-down menus using only CSS.
• Build a professional tabbed navigation system.
• Replace image-based navigation with streamline CSS lists.
• Design smarter, more usable, CSS-flavored web forms.
• Create rounded corners without the bloated HTML.
• Allow your visitors to select their preferred look and feel.
• Learn how you can let the W3C validator do your debugging.
• Reduce the burden of site maintenance and updates.
• ... with 92 other solutions to common questions and problems.

What’s Inside?

Chapter 1: Getting Started with CSS

• Brush up on the basics of CSS. If you’ve been using CSS in your own projects, you might want to skip this chapter.

Chapter 2: Text Styling and Other Basics

• Learn techniques for styling and formatting text in your documents
• Take control of the whitespace and other settings across your entire site, without introducing non-semantic markup.

 Chapter 3: CSS and Images

• Combine CSS and images to create powerful visual effects.
• Learn different ways to apply a background image to either your page body or individual elements.

Chapter 4: Navigation

• Use lists to create pure CSS “tab” navigation systems
• Combine background images with CSS text to create attractive and accessible menus.

Chapter 5: Tabular Data

• Use tables for their real purpose – the display of tabular data, such as that contained in a spreadsheet.

Chapter 6: Forms and User Interfaces

• Learn new ways in which form elements can be styled, so that your forms are both attractive and usable..

Chapter 7: Cross-browser Techniques

• Deal with older browsers, browsers with CSS bugs, and alternative devices.
• Troubleshoot difficult CSS bugs—and learn where to go for help.
• Learn ways that you can test your site in as many browsers as possible.

Chapter 8: Accessibility and Alternative Devices

• Make your site as welcoming and accessible as possible for all users, not just able-bodied visitors with perfect vision.

Chapter 9: CSS Positioning and Layout

• Create two-column, three-column, fixed-width and fluid sites that will work in all browsers.
• Add drop shadows, rounded corners and other effects to your page.

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Who Should Read This Book?

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is ideal for experienced web designers who would like to add sparkle to their existing designs, as well as newcomers who want to learn web design the right way.

The book is written so that it can be read from cover to cover, or referred to like a cookbook with 101 different recipes for your web site. It's written in an easy-to-follow, consistent format that’s well illustrated, with plenty of screenshots and code examples, providing quick visual cues. If you hate wading through dry academic-style texts, then the illustrations and examples throughout this book will suit you.

If you're already familiar with CSS but you'd like to see some examples of great CSS design that really work in practice, this book will be an invaluable addition to your desk.

If you don't have experience with CSS, you can try out the examples provided in the book and the downloadable code archive for yourself, and add effects to your web site in no time.

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