CSS The Definitive Guide Eric A. Meyer

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Table of Contents
Preface
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Property Conventions
- Using Code Examples
- How to Contact Us
- Safari® Enabled
- Acknowledgments
CSS and Documents
- The Web’s Fall from Grace
  - What a Mess
- CSS to the Rescue
- Elements
  - Replaced and Nonreplaced Elements
    - Replaced elements
    - Nonreplaced elements
  - Element Display Roles
    - Block-level elements
    - Inline-level elements
- Bringing CSS and XHTML Together
- Summary
Selectors
- Basic Rules
- Grouping
- Class and ID Selectors
- Attribute Selectors
- Using Document Structure
- Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements
  - Pseudo-Class Selectors
  - Pseudo-Element Selectors
- Summary
Structure and the Cascade
- Specificity
- Inheritance
- The Cascade
- Summary
Values and Units
- Numbers
- Percentages
- Color
  - Named Colors
  - Colors by RGB
- Length Units
  - Absolute Length Units
    - Working with absolute lengths
  - Relative Length Units
- URLs
  - Keywords
    - inherit
- CSS2 Units
- Summary
Fonts
- Font Families
  - Using Generic Font Families
  - Specifying a Font Family
    - Using quotation marks
- Font Weights
- Font Size
- Styles and Variants
  - Fonts with Style
  - Font Variations
- Stretching and Adjusting Fonts
- The font Property
- Font Matching
  - Font-Face Rules
- Summary
Text Properties
- Indentation and Horizontal Alignment
  - Indenting Text
  - Horizontal Alignment
- Vertical Alignment
  - The Height of Lines
  - Vertically Aligning Text
- Word Spacing and Letter Spacing
- Text Transformation
- Text Decoration
  - Weird Decorations
- Text Shadows
  - Handling Whitespace
  - Text Direction
- Summary
Basic Visual Formatting
- Basic Boxes
  - The Containing Block
  - A Quick Refresher
- Block-Level Elements
- Inline Elements
- Altering Element Display
- Summary
Padding, Borders, and Margins
- Basic Element Boxes
  - Width and Height
  - Margins Versus Padding
- Margins
- Borders
- Padding
- Summary
Colors and Backgrounds
- Colors
- Foreground Colors
- Backgrounds
- Summary
Floating and Positioning
- Floating
- Positioning
- Summary
Table Layout
- Table Formatting
- Table Cell Borders
  - Separated Cell Borders
    - Border spacing
    - Handling empty cells
  - Collapsing Cell Borders
    - Collapsing border layout
    - Border collapsing
- Table Sizing
- Summary
Lists and Generated Content
- Lists
- Generated Content
- Summary
User Interface Styles
- System Fonts and Colors
  - System Fonts
  - System Colors
- Cursors
  - Changing the Cursor
- Outlines
- Summary
Non-Screen Media
- Designating Medium-Specific Style Sheets
- Paged Media
  - Print Styles
  - Projection Styles
- Aural Styles
- Summary
Property Reference
- Visual Media
- Tables
- Paged Media
- Dropped from CSS2.1
- Visual Styles
- Paged Media
- Aural Styles
Selector, Pseudo-Class, and Pseudo-Element Reference
- Selectors
- Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements
Sample HTML 4 Style Sheet
Index

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