If you're a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and less time and effort expended, this book is for you. This revised fifth edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications.

Authors Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl show you how to improve user experience, speed development, avoid potential bugs, and add life and depth to your applications through layout, transitions and animations, borders, backgrounds, text properties, and many other tools and techniques. We read the specs so you don't have to!

This guide covers:

Selectors, specificity, and the cascade, including information on the new cascade layers
New and old CSS values and units, including CSS variables and ways to size based on viewports
Details on font technology and ways to use any available font variants
Text styling, from basic decoration to changing the entire writing mode
Padding, borders, outlines, and margins, now discussed in terms of the new block- and inline-direction layout paradigm used by modern browsers
Colors, backgrounds, and gradients, including the conic gradients
Accessible data tables
Flexible box and grid layout systems, including new subgrid capabilities
2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and animation
Filters, blending, clipping, and masking
Media, feature, and container queries

About the Authors

Eric A. Meyer is an internationally recognized expert on HTML, CSS, and web standards, founder of Complex Spiral Consulting, co-founder of the microformats movement, and co-founder of An Event Apart, the design conference series. He’s the author of previous editions of CSS: The Definitive Guide and several other books on CSS and design. You can find him at meyerweb.com.

Estelle Weyl is an open web evangelist and community engineer who has been developing standards-based accessible websites since 1999. She blogs about all things front end including CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript performance, accessibility and and the mobile web at standardista.com. You’ll find her either coding at home on her couch or speaking at conferences around the world.

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