Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, Second Edition

CSS is one of the trio of core client-side web professional skills: HTML for markup, JavaScript for dynamism, and CSS for style. All web professionals who want to take their page design to the next level, with all the advantages that CSS brings, will need this book.

This book is a focused guide to using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for the visual design of web pages. It provides concise coverage of all the essential CSS concepts that developers need to learn (such as separating content from presentation, block and inline elements, inheritance and cascade, the box model, typography, etc.). It also covers the syntax needed to effectively use CSS with your markup document (for example CSS rules, how to structure a style sheet, linking style sheets to your (X)HTML documents, CSS boxes etc).

Summary of Contents

1. Foundation Concepts
2. Overview of Presentation
3. Markup with Meaning
4. Fundamentals
5. Rules
6. Attaching CSS to Your Markup
7. Typography
8. Boxes, Boxes, Boxes
9. Styling Tables with CSS
10. Cross-Browser CSS
11. Troubleshooting
12. CSS Design Projects

Projects include:

1. Weblog - Dave Shea
2. Research Institute Site - John Simons
3. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra - Mike Switzer
4. Photo Gallery - Dan Rubin
5. Image Viewer - Mike Pick
6. Real Estate Portal - Cornelia Lange