Owen Briggs, Steve Champeon, Eric Costello, Matthew Patterson 

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) enable us to style and lay out HTML data on a web page without the use of messy and tags, and without the use of "hacks" such as invisible GIF files. CSS allows for the separation of content from presentation, so that web designers can change the entire design of a site by modifying one stylesheet, rather than updating each HTML document that makes up the web site.


This book is a guide to using CSS and XHTML for the visual design of web pages. Its practical techniques will give you core CSS skills, as well as showing how to apply them in today's browsers.


This book covers:


Foundation Concepts: The why and how of CSS

Overview of Presentation: Where and when should style be used

Markup with Meaning: Organizing your HTML before styling it

Fundamentals: Cascade and inheritance of styles

Rules: Selectors, properties, and values

Attaching CSS to your Markup

Typography

Boxes, Boxes, Boxes: The layout of a page

Cross Browser CSS: The common pitfalls

Troubleshooting: Getting around the bugs
Projects: A Gallery, a Personal Log, and an Online Store

From the Publisher: This book is for web professionals with some experience of HTML who want to harness the power of CSS. The authors, well-known on web design and development lists, will guide you towards a full awareness of what CSS has to offer.