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Tables of Contents for Cascading Style Sheets
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
iii
 
Preface
v
 
Trademark notice
viii
 
The Web and HTML
1
29
The Web
3
1
Development of the Web
3
1
Markup Languages
4
1
Dodging the Limitations of HTML
5
4
Proprietary HTML extensions
5
1
Converting text into images
6
1
Placing text into a table
7
1
Writing a program instead of using HTML
8
1
HTML Basics
9
16
Elements
10
1
Building a simple HTML document
10
4
Block-level and inline elements
14
1
Element overview
14
2
Comments
16
1
Lists
16
3
Empty elements HR and BR
19
1
Maintaining preformatted text
20
1
Adding hyperlinks
21
3
Adding images
24
1
Document Trees
25
5
Nested elements
27
3
CSS
30
20
Rules and Style Sheets
30
4
Anatomy of a rule
31
1
Anatomy of a declaration
31
2
Grouping selectors and rules
33
1
``Gluing'' Style Sheets to the Document
34
1
Gluing by using the STYLE element
34
1
Browsers and CSS
35
2
Tree structures and inheritance
37
2
Overriding Inheritance
39
1
Properties that don't inherit
40
1
Common tasks with CSS
41
7
Common tasks: fonts
41
2
Common tasks: margins
43
4
Common tasks: links
47
1
A word about Cascading
48
2
The Amazing EM Unit and Other Best Practices
50
7
CSS Selectors
57
27
Selector Schemes
57
1
Type Selectors
58
1
Simple attribute selectors
59
4
The CLASS attribute
59
3
The ID attribute
62
1
The STYLE Attribute
63
2
Combining Selector Types
65
1
Simple contextual selectors
66
1
External information: pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements
67
4
The anchor pseudo-classes
68
1
The first-letter and first-line pseudo-elements
69
2
DIV and SPAN
71
2
Advanced attribute selectors
73
4
Selecting on the presence of an attribute
73
1
Selecting on the value of an attribute
74
1
Selecting on a single word in the value of an attribute
74
1
Selecting on the language of an element
75
2
Advanced contextual selectors
77
1
The child selector
78
1
The sibling selector
78
1
Advanced pseudo-classes
78
3
User-interaction: the active, hover and focus pseudo-classes
79
1
Counting elements: the first-child pseudo-class
80
1
Advanced pseudo-elements
81
1
The ``any'' selector
81
3
Fonts
84
36
Typesetting terminology
85
2
Classifying font families
87
3
Serif or sans-serif?
87
1
Proportional-spaced or monospaced?
87
1
Does it resemble handwriting?
88
1
Is it mainly for decorative purposes?
89
1
The font-family property
90
4
Design tips using font families
93
1
Font metrics
94
2
length units
96
3
Absolute units
96
1
Relative units
97
1
The pixel unit
97
2
Percentages as values
99
1
Keywords as values
99
1
The font-size property
99
3
The ``length'' value
100
1
The ``percentage'' value
100
1
The ``absolute-size'' value
101
1
The ``relative-size'' value
102
1
The font-style property
102
2
The font-variant property
104
1
The font-weight property
105
3
The font property
108
2
The font-stretch property
110
1
Numbers as values
111
1
The font-size-adjust property
112
1
The text-decoration property
113
4
The text-transform property
117
2
More information about fonts
119
1
Webfonts
120
15
Prerequisites for WebFonts
120
1
Font Descriptions
121
2
Font Descriptors
123
1
Basic font descriptors
124
2
Resource descriptors
126
1
The Unicode-range descriptor
127
2
Matching descriptors
129
2
Synthesis descriptors
131
2
Alignment descriptors
133
2
The Fundamental Objects
135
25
The box model
136
1
The display property
137
3
The block value
138
1
The inline value
138
1
The list-item value
138
1
The none value
139
1
The run-in value
139
1
The compact value
140
1
Creating side-heads
140
1
Achieving different effects
141
1
More about lists--the list-style properties
142
1
The list-style-type property
143
1
The list-style-image property
144
1
The list-style-position property
145
1
The list-style property
145
1
Generated text, counters and quotes
146
10
The :before and :after pseudo-elements and the content property
147
2
Generating quote marks
149
2
Counters
151
2
Styles for counters
153
1
Self-nesting counters
154
1
Markers and the marker-offset property
155
1
The white-space property
156
4
Space Inside Boxes
160
19
Space inside Block-Level Elements
161
1
The text-align property
162
1
Right aligning text
163
1
Justifying text
164
1
The text-indent property
164
1
Using the text-indent property
165
2
The line-height property
167
3
Using the line-height property
170
1
The word-spacing property
170
1
Using word spacing
171
1
The letter-spacing property
172
1
Using the letter-spacing property
173
2
The vertical-align property
175
4
The top and bottom keywords
176
2
The value as a percentage or length
178
1
Space Around Boxes
179
32
Margins and the margin properties
180
1
Using the margin property
181
2
Common usages of the margin properties
183
2
The padding properties
185
1
Using the padding property
186
1
The border properties group
187
1
The border-color properties
188
2
The border-style properties
190
2
The border-width properties
192
1
Using the border-width property
193
1
The border properties
194
1
Using the border property
195
1
Working with the Border Properties
195
2
Outline borders
197
1
Collapsing margins
198
2
The width property
200
1
The height property
200
1
The float property
201
2
The clear property
203
1
Minimum and maximum widths and heights
204
2
The whole story on width computation
206
1
no value is ``auto''
207
1
one value is ``auto''
208
1
two or three of the three values are ``auto''
208
2
Overflow
210
1
Relative and Absolute positioning
211
13
The position property
213
1
The containing block
213
3
Relative positioning
216
1
Fixed positioning
217
2
Absolute positioning
219
2
Using auto values
220
1
The z-index property
221
1
Making elements invisible
222
2
Colors
224
23
Specifying colors
225
5
Color names
226
1
RGB colors
226
3
System colors
229
1
The properties
230
1
The color property
230
1
Setting the color of a border
231
1
Setting the color of hyperlinks
231
1
The background properties
232
1
The background-color property
232
3
Background color in inline elements
233
1
Background color in block elements
233
1
Background color in list items
234
1
The transparent value
234
1
The background-image property
235
1
The background-repeat property
236
1
The background-attachment property
237
2
The background-position property
239
3
Placing images using percentages
240
1
Placing images using absolute positions
241
1
Placing images using keywords
241
1
The background property
242
1
Setting the background of the canvas
243
1
Shadows
244
3
Printing and Other Media
247
16
Page breaks
248
4
Usage of page break properties
251
1
Page areas
252
7
Page selectors and margins
253
1
Left and right pages
254
1
First pages
255
1
Units for page margins
255
1
Page box dimension and orientation
256
2
Crop marks
258
1
Named pages
258
1
Media-specific style sheets
259
4
Media types
260
3
Aural Style Sheets
263
14
Introduction to aural style sheets
263
1
Volume properties: volume
264
1
Speaking properties: speak
265
1
Pause properties: pause-before, pause-after, and pause
266
1
Cue properties: cue-before, cue-after, and cue
267
2
Mixing properties: play-during
269
1
Spatial properties: azimuth and elevation
270
2
Voice characteristic properties: speech-rate, voice-family, pitch, pitch-range, stress, and richness
272
3
Speech properties: speak-punctuation and speak-numeral
275
2
From HTML Extensions to CSS
277
17
Magnet
278
2
Cyberspazio
280
4
Colors
281
1
Images
281
1
Fonts
282
1
White space
282
2
``The form of the book''
284
2
``The new typography''
286
2
TSDesign
288
6
Cascading and Inheritance
294
11
The Basics
296
1
conflicts appear
297
2
accommodating user styles
299
1
a more complex example
300
4
Find all rules that apply
301
1
Sort the rules by explicit weight
302
1
Sort by origin
302
1
Sort by specificity
303
1
Sort by order specified
304
1
The ``inherit'' keyword
304
1
External Style Sheets
305
16
Why external style sheets?
305
1
External HTML style sheets
306
1
Linking to style sheets
306
4
Persistent, preferred and alternate author style sheets
308
1
The MEDIA attribute
309
1
@import
310
3
Using @import: a case study
311
1
@import: the details
312
1
External XML style sheets
313
1
W3C Core Styles
314
7
Other Approaches
321
9
Creating a document without using a style sheet
321
5
Using elements for layout
322
2
Using attributes for layout
324
1
The single-pixel GIF trick for controlling space
325
1
Using a different format from HTML
326
2
The Portable Document Format (PDF)
326
1
Images
327
1
Using XSL
328
2
XML Documents
330
7
Experimenting with XML
332
1
Some examples
333
4
Tables
337
18
The parts of a table
337
2
The collapsing borders model
339
3
The separated borders model
342
2
Borders for empty cells
343
1
Alignment
344
2
Sizes
346
3
Fast size
347
2
Setting background colors
349
1
``Collapsing'' columns and rows
350
1
Inline tables
350
1
XML and tables
351
4
The CSS Saga
355
7
Browsers
359
3
Appendix A HTML 4.0 QUICK REFERENCE
362
12
Document structure
362
1
The HEAD element
363
1
The BODY element
364
3
Container elements
364
1
Bridge elements
365
1
Special elements
365
2
Text-level elements
367
4
Normal text-level elements
368
1
Restricted text-level elements
369
2
BUTTON: a text-level container element
371
1
Special characters
371
3
Appendix B READING PROPERTY VALUE DEFINITIONS
374
7
Multiple values
376
3
Tying it all together
379
2
Appendix C SYSTEM COLORS
381
2
Index
383