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Author Gasston, Peter

Title The book of CSS3 : a developer's guide to the future of web design / by Peter Gasston
Published San Francisco : No Starch Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 278 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword; Preface; Introduction; The Scope of This Book; A Quick Note About Browsers and Platforms; The Appendices and Further Resources; 1: Introducing CSS3; What CSS3 Is and How It Came to Be; A Brief History of CSS3; CSS3 Is Modular; Module Status and the Recommendation Process; CSS3 Is Not HTML5; Let's Get Started: Introducing the Syntax; Browser-Specific Prefixes; Future-Proofing Experimental CSS; Getting Started; 2: Media Queries; The Advantages of Media Queries; Syntax; Media Features; Width and Height; Device Width and Height; Using Media Queries in the Real World; Orientation
Aspect RatioPixel Ratio; Multiple Media Features; Mozilla-Specific Media Features; Summary; Media Queries: Browser Support; 3: Selectors; Attribute Selectors; New Attribute Selectors in CSS3; Beginning Substring Attribute Value Selector; Ending Substring Attribute Value Selector; Arbitrary Substring Attribute Value Selector; Multiple Attribute Selectors; The General Sibling Combinator; Summary; Selectors: Browser Support; 4: Pseudo-classes and Pseudo-elements; Structural Pseudo-classes; The nth-* Pseudo-classes; first-of-type, last-child, and last-of-type; only-child and only-of-type
Other Pseudo-classestarget; empty; root; not; UI Element States; Pseudo-elements; The selection pseudo-element; Summary; DOM and Attribute Selectors: Browser Support; 5: Web Fonts; The @font-face Rule; Defining Different Faces; True vs. Artificial Font Faces; A "Bulletproof" @font-face Syntax; Using Local Fonts; Font Formats; The Final "Bulletproof" Syntax; The Fontspring Bulletproof Syntax; Licensing Fonts for Web Use; A Real-World Web Fonts Example; More Font Properties; font-size-adjust; font-stretch; OpenType Features; Summary; Web Fonts: Browser Support
6: Text Effects and Typographic StylesUnderstanding Axes and Coordinates; Applying Dimensional Effects: text-shadow; Multiple Shadows; Letterpress Effect; Adding Definition to Text: text-outline and text-stroke; More Text Properties; Restricting Overflow; Resizing Elements; Aligning Text; Wrapping Text; Setting Text Rendering Options; Applying Punctuation Properties; Summary; Text Effects: Browser Support; 7: Multiple Columns; Column Layout Methods; Prescriptive Columns: column-count; Dynamic Columns: column-width; A Note on Readability; Different Distribution Methods in Firefox and WebKit
Combining column-count and column-widthColumn Gaps and Rules; Containing Elements within Columns; Elements Spanning Multiple Columns; Elements Breaking over Multiple Columns; Summary; Multiple Columns: Browser Support; 8: Background Images and Other Decorative Properties; Background Images; Multiple Background Images; Background Size; Background Clip and Origin; background-repeat; Background Image Clipping; Image Masks; Summary; Background Images: Browser Support; 9: Border and Box Effects; Giving Your Borders Rounded Corners; border-radius Shorthand
Summary CSS3 is the latest revision of cascading style sheets, the language used to define the look and formatting of web documents. A still-evolving standard, CSS3 presents a moving target for developers who need to stay abreast of which features are supported by particular web browsers. The Book of CSS3 uses real-world examples to teach developers the fundamentals of the CSS3 specification, highlighting the latest developments and future features, while paying close attention to current browser implementations. Each chapter examines a different CSS3 module, and teaches the reader to use exciting new
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Web sites -- Design.
Cascading style sheets.
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- General.
COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia.
COMPUTERS -- Web -- Site Design.
COMPUTERS -- Web -- User Generated Content.
Cascading style sheets
Web sites -- Design
Cascading Style Sheets 3.0
Cascading Style Sheets.
Web Site.
Gestaltung.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781593273637
1593273630
9781593272869
1593272863