Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns

Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns is a reference book and a cookbook on how to style web pages using CSS and XHTML. It contains 350 ready–to–use patterns (CSS and XHTML code snippets) you can copy and paste into your code. Each pattern can be combined with other patterns to create an unlimited number of solutions.

Each pattern works reliably in all major browsers without the need for browser hacks.

The book’s layout, with a pattern’s example on the left page and its explanation on the right, makes it easy to find a pattern and study it without having to flip between pages. The book is also readable from cover to cover, with topics building carefully upon previous topics.

A software developer can use this book to learn CSS for the first time. A designer familiar with CSS can use this book to master CSS and XHTML. If you are completely new to coding or completely new to CSS and XHTML, you may want to read an introductory book on CSS and XHTML first.

You can interact with all the examples in the book at www.cssDesignPatterns.com.

What you’ll learn

Code CSS and XHTML
Turn HTML into XHTML
Use CSS Selectors
Use six CSS Box Models
Create rounded corners, shadows, gradients, sprites, and transparency
Replace text with images without affecting accessibility
Style text with fonts, highlights, decorations, and shadows
Create flexible, fluid layouts
Position elements with absolute pixel precision
Stack elements in layers
Size, stretch, shrinkwrap, indent, align, and offset elements
Style tables with borders and alternating striped rows
Size table columns automatically
Integrate CSS and JavaScript without embedding JavaScript in XHTML
Create drop caps, callouts, quotes, and alerts

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Design Patterns:Making CSS Easy!
CHAPTER 2 HTML Design Patterns
CHAPTER 3 CSS Selectors and Inheritance
CHAPTER 4 Box Models
CHAPTER 5 Box Model Extents
CHAPTER 6 Box Model Properties
CHAPTER 7 Positioning Models
CHAPTER 8 Positioning: Indented, Offset, and Aligned
CHAPTER 9 Positioning: Advanced
CHAPTER 10 Styling T ext
CHAPTER 11 Spacing Content
CHAPTER 12 Aligning Content
CHAPTER 13 Bloc ks
CHAPTER 14 Images
CHAPTER 15 Tables
CHAPTER 16 Column Layout
CHAPTER 17 Layouts
CHAPTER 18 Drop Caps
CHAPTER 19 Callouts and Quotes
CHAPTER 20 Alerts

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