Pro CSS and HTML design patterns : [increase creativity and productivity by using patterns in your web designs while leveraging CSS and (X)HTML best practices

Design patterns have been used with great success in software programming. They improve productivity, creativity, and efficiency in web design and development, and they reduce code bloat and complexity. In the context of CSS and HTML, design patterns are sets of common functionality that work across various browsers and screen readers, without sacrificing design values or accessibility or relying on hacks and filters. But until now they have not been applied systematically to HTML and CSS web design and development.With the help of Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, you can reap the benefits of using design patterns in your HTML and CSS code. The book provides you with all the CSS and HTML design patterns you need. Web development expert and author Michael Bowers then takes you through multiple design patterns for text, backgrounds, borders, images, forms, layouts, and much more. He shows you exactly how each one works, and how to use them most effectively in your own projects. After you learn about these design patterns, you'll wonder how you ever developed web sites without them! Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns is a reference book and a cookbook on how to style web pages using CSS and XHTML. It contains 350 ready-to-use patterns (CSS and XHTML code snippets) you can copy and paste into your code. Each pattern can be combined with other patterns to create an unlimited number of solutions. Each pattern works reliably in all major browsers without the need for browser hacks. The book's layout, with a pattern's example on the left page and its explanation on the right, makes it easy to find a pattern and study it without having to flip between pages. The book is also readable from cover to cover, with topics building carefully upon previous topics. A software developer can use this book to learn CSS for the first time. A designer familiar with CSS can use this book to master CSS and XHTML. If you are completely new to coding or completely new to CSS and XHTML, you may want to read an introductory book on CSS and XHTML first. You can interact with all the examples in the book at (http://www.cssDesignPatterns.com) www.cssDesignPatterns.com . Applying design patterns to HTML and CSS allows web developers and designers to improve their work, in terms of efficiency/productivity and end results, so this is an essential book for anyone involved in the industry. As well as information on CSS and HTML best practices, this book provides the reader with all the CSS and HTML design patterns they need, to adapt for their own projects quickly and easily, along with details of exactly how each one works, and how to use them most effectively. The book is up-to-date for modern browser support, and CSS and HTML specs. Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns 1 Table of Content 8 Chapter 1 34 Chapter 2 64 Chapter 3 92 Chapter 4 110 Chapter 5 128 Chapter 6 140 Chapter 7 156 Chapter 8 180 Chapter 9 206 Chapter 10 232 Chapter 11 248 Chapter 12 270 Chapter 13 288 Chapter 14 316 Chapter 15 350 Chapter 16 376 Chapter 17 404 Chapter 18 450 Chapter 19 470 Chapter 20 488 Index 514 Presents a collection of more than 350 design patterns that work with all major Web browsers along with information on the features of CSS in combination with HTML to create reusable patterns.