CSS: The Missing Manual: The Missing ManualWeb site design has grown up. Unlike the old days, when designers cobbled togetherchunky HTML, bandwidth-hogging graphics, and a prayer to make their sites look good,Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) now lets your inner designer come out and play. But CSSisn't just a tool to pretty up your site; it's a reliable method for handling allkinds of presentation--from fonts and colors to page layout. CSS: The MissingManual clearly explains this powerful design language and how you can use it tobuild sparklingly new Web sites or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade. Like their counterparts in print page-layout programs, style sheets allowdesigners to apply typographic styles, graphic enhancements, and precise layoutinstructions to elements on a Web page. Unfortunately, due to CSS's complexity andthe many challenges of building pages that work in all Web browsers, most Web authorstreat CSS as a kind of window-dressing to spruce up the appearance of their sites.Integrating CSS with a site's underlying HTML is hard work, and often frustratinglycomplicated. As a result many of the most powerful features of CSS are left untapped.With this book, beginners and Web-building veterans alike can learn how to navigatethe ins-and-outs of CSS and take complete control over their Web pages'appearance. Author David McFarland (the bestselling author of O'Reilly's Dreamweaver: TheMissing Manual) combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, a dashof humor, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you ways to design sites withCSS that work consistently across browsers. You'll learn how to:
Unlike competing books, this Missing Manual doesn't assume that everyone in theworld only surfs the Web with Microsoft's Internet Explorer; our book providessupport for all major Web browsers and is one of the first books to thoroughlydocument the newly expanded CSS support in IE7, currently in beta release. Want to learn how to turn humdrum Web sites into destinations that will captureviewers and keep them longer? Pick up CSS: The Missing Manual and learn thereal magic of this tool. |
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... preview a Web page directly in the program (so you don't have to switch back and forth between browser and editor), shortcuts for adding HTML tags, and a lot more. TextWrangler (Mac, www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/). This free ...
... preview the page in a browser. Something doesn't look quite right, so you return to your Web editor and change the external CSS file. When you return to the Web browser and reload the page, the change you just made doesn't appear! You ...
... Preview in Browser” function, which, with a simple keyboard shortcut, or menu option, opens the page in a Web browser. It's worth checking your program's manual to see if it includes this timesaving feature. When you view the page in a ...
... Preview the page in a Web browser . You can preview the page by opening it in a Web browser as described in step 3 on page 36 , or , if the page is still open in a browser window , then just click the Reload button . In either case ...
... link to any Web page. (For a brief primer on document- and root-relative links visit: www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=230AD.) 8. Save the file and preview it in a Web. 40 CSS: The Missing Manual Tutorial: Creating.
Contents
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Margins Padding and Borders | 133 |
Formatting Tables and Forms | 251 |
Building FloatBased Layouts | 277 |
Positioning Elements on a Web Page | 325 |
CSS for the Printed Page | 365 |
Improving Your CSS Habits | 383 |
CSS Property Reference | 405 |
CSS in Dreamweaver 8 | 433 |
CSS Resources | 455 |
Adding Graphics to Web Pages | 171 |
Sprucing Up Your Sites Navigation | 209 |
Index | 463 |