AdvancED CSS

Manage, and apply CSS to large-scale projects. Learn how to optimize your CSS for better site performance. So you think you know CSS? Take your CSS skills to the next level and learn to write organized and optimized CSS that will improve the maintainability, performance, and appearance of your work. You’ll learn how document flow and CSS positioning schemes will help you make your documents more accessible. You’ll discover the great styling possibilities of CSS paired with semantic structures like Microformats and RDFa, while enriching the self-describing semantics of XHTML content. Learn how to group logically related declarations, minify style sheets, and prevent performance bottle necks such as reflows and repaints. With support for CSS enjoying unprecedented ubiquity, you can finally use such features as generated content, complex selector chains, and CSS3’s visual properties, like box-shadow, in your projects.

So you think you know CSS? Take your CSS skills to the next level and learn to write organized and optimized CSS that will improve the maintainability, performance, and appearance of your work.

You’ll learn how document flow and CSS positioning schemes will help you make your documents more accessible. You’ll discover the great styling possibilities of CSS paired with semantic structures like Microformats and RDFa, while enriching the self-describing semantics of XHTML content. Learn how to group logically related declarations, minify style sheets, and prevent performance bottle necks such as reflows and repaints. With support for CSS enjoying unprecedented ubiquity, you can finally use such features as generated content, complex selector chains, and CSS3’s visual properties, like box-shadow, in your projects.

What you’ll learn

• Discover how to make use of CSS 2.1 alongside CSS3
• Use CSS generated content to automatically number arbitrary elements and expose attribute metadata
• Learn how to use CSS for print and mobile devices, as well as for presenting XML data
• Uncover the techniques used to organize, manage, and apply CSS to large-scale projects
• Learn how to optimize your CSS for better site performance

Who this book is for

If you’re feeling confident with CSS, AdvancED CSS will stretch your CSS skill set even further—and you’ll do more with CSS than you thought was ever possible!

Table of Contents

1. Markup Underpins CSS
2. CSS Fundamentals for Advanced Use
3. CSS-Generated Content
4. Optimizing for Print
5. Developing for Small Screens and the Mobile Web
6. Managing and Organizing Style Sheets
7. Semantic Patterns for Styling Common Design Components
8. Using a Style Sheet Library
9. Styling XML with CSS
10. Optimizing CSS for Performance
11. Exploring the Emergence of CSS3
12. The Future of CSS and the Web

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Markup Underpins CSS....Pages 3-25 CSS Fundamentals for Advanced Use....Pages 27-85 Front Matter....Pages 87-87 CSS-Generated Content....Pages 89-114 Optimizing for Print....Pages 117-147 Developing for Small Screens and the Mobile Web....Pages 149-186 Managing and Organizing Style Sheets....Pages 189-210 Front Matter....Pages 212-212 Semantic Patterns for Styling Common Design Components....Pages 213-226 Using a Style Sheet Library....Pages 229-245 Styling XML with CSS....Pages 247-273 Optimizing CSS for Performance....Pages 275-289 Front Matter....Pages 291-291 Exploring the Emergence of CSS3....Pages 293-330 The future of CSS and The Web....Pages 333-341 Back Matter....Pages 343-358 A guide to Web site design using CSS provides advanced tips and techniques covering such topics as generating content, print styles, mobile Web technology, microformats, XML, and CSS3.