• Author:
  • Meyer, Eric
• Subject:
  Internet Guides & Online Services
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons (UK)
• Published:
  16/07/2010
• Price:
  Not available
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True to the Smashing Magazine's promise, Smashing CSS smashes readers with the CSS information they need to make their life easier. Really. Inside, CSS expert and best-selling author Eric A. Meyer shares 100 professional techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets to build modern web sites.

Techniques include:

• Using the right tools - Firebug, Dragonfly, XRAY and more
• Throwing elements offscreen/hiding them
• body/html backgrounds in XHTML
• Serving CSS via HTTP headers
• More than 15 layout techniques including Clearfix, Two/Three simple columns, Faux columns, One True Layout, Holy Grail, Em-Based Layout, Fluid Grids, Sticky footers, and more
• A variety of CSS effects including CSS popups, Boxpunching, Rounded corners, CSS Sprites, Sliding doors, Liquid bleach, Ragged floats, and more
• CSS table styling including Using thead, tfoot, and tbody, Row headers, Column-oriented styling (classes), Styling data tables w/ jQuery, Tables to graphs, Tables to maps, and more
• CSS3 coverage including rounded corners, multiple backgrounds, RGBa, using jQuery to do CSS3 selections

and so much more.