HTML Style Sheets Design Guide: The Web Professional's Guide to Building and Using Style Sheets - Softcover

Pitts, Natanya; Tittel, Ed; James, Stephen N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576102114 ISBN 13: 9781576102114

Publisher: Coriolis Group, 1997

Synopsis

A book/CD-ROM guide to building and using Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1 (CSS1). Explains the structure and capabilities of HTML style sheets, and describes best practices and uses, with sections on theory of style sheets, building style sheets, and how to use external style sheets on web pages. Includes a color section of case studies, color charts, and tours of style sheets in use on the web. The companion CD-ROM contains source code for all examples, a set of pointers to CSS1 tools, and a collection of CSS1-enabled software tools. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

Review

This outstanding guide takes you from the basic to advanced concepts of working with cascading style sheets, level 1 (CSS1). The writers assume that you're already comfortable with HTML and are ready to improve your Web site by adding style sheets.

The first part of the book provides an introduction to style sheets--the history of their development and an explanation of their utility. Part 2 explores the real nuts and bolts of creating style sheets; you learn about simple, class-based, ID-based, and contextual selectors; pseudo-classes and elements; and unit, box, classification, font, and text properties. Part 3 examines how to transform your Web pages using inline and external style sheets and Dynamic HTML. A full-color section in the middle of the book, "Do It In Color," features a guide to style-sheet color properties, a color chart, a dissection of a simple and a complex style sheet, and a tour of several successful Web sites that make good use of style sheets.

Appendices feature a CSS1 properties reference, a glossary, and a guide to the contents of the companion Mac/Windows CD-ROM, which includes source code for the book's examples, pointers to online resources and tools, and CSS1-enabled editors and utilities.

About the Author

Ed Tittel (Austin, TX) is president of LANWrights, Inc., a training and content development company. His author team specializes in certification training and networking and has authored over 100 best-selling computer books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Coriolis Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1576102114
• ISBN 13: 9781576102114
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300