Css Mastery

INTRODUCTION There are an increasing number of CSS resources around, yet you only have to look at a CSS mailing list to see the same questions popping up time and again. How do I center a design?”What is the best rounded-corner box technique?” How do I create a three-column layout? "If you follow the CSS design community, it is usually a case of remembering which website a particular article or technique is featured on. However, if you are relatively new to CSS, or don’t have the time to read all the blogs, this information can be hard to track down. Even people who are skilled at CSS run into problems with some of the more obscure aspects of CSS such as the positioning model or specificity. This is because most CSS developers are self-taught, picking up tricks from articles and other people’s code without fully understanding the spec. And is it any wonder, as the CSS specification is complex and often contradictory, written for browser manufacturers rather than web developers? Then there are the browsers to contend with. Browser bugs and inconsistencies are one of the biggest problems for the modern CSS developer. Unfortunately, many of these bugs are poorly documented and their fixes verge on the side of folk law. You know that you have to do something a certain way or it will break in one browser or another. You just can't remember which browser or how it breaks. So the idea for a book formed. A book that brings together the most useful CSS techniques in one place, that focuses on real-world browser issues and that helps plug common gaps in people's CSS knowledge. A book that will help you jump the learning curve and have you coding like a CSS expert in no time flat.




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It is in our nature to try to organize the world around us. Scientists create lists of animals, plants, and chemical elements. Magazines create lists of the top 10 movies, the latest fashion trends, or the worst-dressed celebrities. People write shopping lists, to-do lists, and lists to Santa. We just love making lists. Lists provide us with a way of grouping related elements and, by doing so, we give them meaning and structure. Most web pages contain some form of list, be it a list of the latest news stories, a list of links to your favorite web pages, or a list of links to other parts of your site. Identifying these items as lists and marking them up as such can help add structure to your HTML documents, providing useful hooks with which to apply your styles. In this chapter you will learn about


Styling lists with CSS




Using background images as bullets




Creating vertical and horizontal nav bars




Using sliding doors tabbed navigation




Creating CSS image maps




Creating remote rollovers




Using definition lists

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