CSS: The Definitive Guide: Web Layout and Presentation

If you are a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and less effort and time expended, this book is for you. This revised fifth edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation in conjunction with a thorough review of the up to date CSS specifications.

Authors Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl show you how to beef up user experience, speed development, avoid potential bugs, and add life and depth to your applications through layout, transitions and animations, borders, backgrounds, text properties, and many other tools and techniques. We read the specs so you shouldn’t have to!

This guide covers:

• Selectors, specificity, and the cascade, including information on the new cascade layers
• New and old CSS values and units, including CSS variables and how one can size based on viewports
• Details on font technology and how one can use any to be had font variants
• Text styling, from basic decoration to changing all of the writing mode
• Padding, borders, outlines, and margins, now discussed in relation to the new block- and inline-direction layout paradigm used by modern browsers
• Colors, backgrounds, and gradients, including the conic gradients
• Accessible data tables
• Flexible box and grid layout systems, including new subgrid capabilities
• 2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and animation
• Filters, blending, clipping, and masking
• Media, feature, and container queries