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Cascading style sheets

Name: Cascading style sheets
Author: Eric A. Meyer
ISBN: 9781565926226

by Eric A. Meyer

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Overview

When we released Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide in 2000, we believed CSS was poised to become a major force in web authoring -- and we were right. Since then, CSS has continued to mature as a standard, dozens of books have been published on the topic, and most recent browsers have at least partial support for CSS2 and excellent support for CSS1. CSS is the W3C-approved method for adding to and enriching the visual presentation of web documents. It allows web authors to mimic the sophisticated layout and pagination of desktop publishing with clean, easy-to-maintain scripts. This second edition of Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide completes the discussion of CSS2, explores CSS2.1, and introduces emerging elements of CSS3. Eric A. Meyer, now an even more respected expert on the subject of CSS, uses his trademark wit and humor to explore properties, tags, attributes, and implementation, as well as real-life issues, such as browser support and design guidelines. This book addresses experienced web authors and scripters, as well as novice authors who may be implementing CSS from scratch. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition also includes a new foreword by Molly Holzschlag, a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project and one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web.

About the Author, Eric A. Meyer

Eric A. Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993. He is currently the Hypermedia Systems Manager for Digital Media Services at Case Western Reserve University, Eric has been called "an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)," and he knows a thing or two about other aspects of Web design as well. He is an invited expert and member of the W3C CSS&FP Working Group, coordinates the W3C's CSS Test Suite, remains active on CSS newsgroups, and edits Web Review's Style Sheets Reference Guide. He does as much writing as he can without burning out, and also does his best to keep up with CSS support in popular Web browsers. If you have a taste for early jazz and swing, you can catch his weekly big band radio show over the Internet via WRUW-FM 91.1 in Cleveland. When not otherwise busy, Eric is usually bothering his wife Kat in some fashion.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
With CSS 2/2.1, web designers have the near-absolute control they’ve always craved. The standards are pretty well nailed, the tools are there, the browsers are close enough. Strong CSS skills are now indispensable. Eric A. Meyer’s Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition is the best way to get them.

Nobody knows the realities of CSS better than Meyer -- nobody. Here, he covers it all: document structure, values, units, fonts, text, visual formatting, borders, margins, colors, backgrounds, positioning, tables, lists, you name it. Meyer presents the why, the how, the pitfalls, the solutions -- and plenty of visual examples. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

Library Journal

Although O'Reilly books are not the best place to learn how to use a technology, they are excellent for polishing its finer points. Ethernet and Internet protocols are difficult by nature, but cascading style sheets and MP3s are much more accessible to beginners. All of these books are recommended for university and large public libraries; Cascading Style Sheets and MP3 will also serve well smaller public libraries.

Booknews

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a standard way to separate a document's structure from its presentation, and is gradually gaining support among web browsers. This guide offers a detailed review of using aspects of CSS1 and CSS positioning to enrich the visual presentation of web pages. Topics include text properties, fonts, colors and backgrounds, boxes and borders, and visual formatting. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)