Cascading Style Sheets: A Primer is a simple and informative book that introduces you to the background and concepts of style sheets and includes a tutorial to help you add style sheets to your Web pages. The book begins with basic concepts of HTML page typography and layout using frames and tables and then moves into style sheets, finishing with some real-world examples. The guide teaches you how to design style sheets for both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. A helpful compatibility chart shows the tags and features that each browser supports. The final portion of the book examines case studies of sites that use cascading style sheets in different ways and explains how to add style sheets to an existing site to improve layout and design.
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One of the greatest challenges a Web designer must face is how to create content that displays the same in all browsers. There has never been a clear-cut solution to this formidable task -- until now. Programmers and designers the world over are singing the praises of Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, for its ability to provide designers complete control over how their content appears on users screens.
Cascading Style Sheets: A Primer is a hands-on guide to understanding and implementing this new technology in your Web site. You learn how to use tables and transparent images to achieve layout control, use advanced selectors to control every last detail of presentation, add interactivity with Dynamic HTML and JavaScript Enhanced Style Sheets, and much more. In addition to discussing the fundamentals of CSS, the book also tackles the topics of basic graphic design theory, typography and Web design, and advanced CSS techniques and methods.
Authors Joseph R. Jones and Paul Thurrott have also created a supplemental Web site that is a perfect companion to the book. Here you find online tutorials about CSS and HMTL as well as the latest news and information about this exciting technology.
