CSS and Documents

by Eric A. Meyer

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a powerful tool that transforms the presentation of a document or a collection of documents, and it’s spread to nearly every corner of the Web—as well as many non-web environments. In this free introduction to Cascade Style Sheets, you’ll learn how CSS makes it possible for you to completely change the way document elements are presented by a user agent. You’ll discover the origins of this specification and how CSS styles work with HTML.

Learn how you can choose style sheets based on the features of a given media type, including desktop screens, web-enabled phones, digital projectors, TVs, Braille devices, print documents, and even various audio renderings of a document. CSS and Documents is an excerpt from the forthcoming 4th edition of The Definitive Guide.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a powerful tool that transforms the presentation of a document or a collection of documents, and it’s spread to nearly every corner of the Web—as well as many non-web environments. In this free introduction to Cascade Style Sheets, you’ll learn how CSS makes it possible for you to completely change the way document elements are presented by a user agent. You’ll discover the origins of this specification and how CSS styles work with HTML.

Learn how you can choose style sheets based on the features of a given media type, including desktop screens, web-enabled phones, digital projectors, TVs, Braille devices, print documents, and even various audio renderings of a document. CSS and Documents is an excerpt from the forthcoming 4th edition of The Definitive Guide.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a powerful tool that transforms the presentation of a document or a collection of documents, and it’s spread to nearly every corner of the Web—as well as many non-web environments. In this free introduction to Cascade Style Sheets, you’ll learn how CSS makes it possible for you to completely change the way document elements are presented by a user agent. You’ll discover the origins of this specification and how CSS styles work with HTML.

Learn how you can choose style sheets based on the features of a given media type, including desktop screens, web-enabled phones, digital projectors, TVs, Braille devices, print documents, and even various audio renderings of a document. CSS and Documents is an excerpt from the forthcoming 4th edition of The Definitive Guide.

Genres: Programming, Nonfiction, Technology, Reference, Computer Science, Technical, Computers

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 28, 2012

About the author

Eric A. Meyer is an American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a technique for managing how HTML is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use. Eric currently works for Igalia.

Reviews

[Diego Guzmán · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good enough intro

[William Darian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good introduction to seldomly-discussed part of CSS

This book briefly discuss CSS history and it's usage in conjunction to the HTML file. It will also explain how the CSS will behave in certain browsers and media.

[Mr A · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gives some great beginner tips and tricks on CSS3

[Booklist54321 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This brief but free excerpt contains enough information to be a valuable review for anyone interested in web site presentation. Although advanced techniques aren't described, each of the three basic ways of adding Cascading Style Sheet code to a web site is explained. Further, the book describes how to set code to apply only to devices with certain parameters. For example, the book explains how to specify code to apply to devices of certain resolution, screen height and width, or type. Although an example system isn't built in this short read, the general information required to set up a multi-device strategy is included.

[zygimantus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very short book about CSS styles, not going much into details.

[moxieBK · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a pretty quick, good down and dirty guide to using CSS in documents as pertaining to web design. I keep it on my ereader and use it as a reference. Maybe not the reference, but certainly one I do look at once in a while. It's free, so you can't lose to try it.

Three stars.

[Nicci · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think this book would be more interesting with more descriptive and pictorial examples. Did not enjoy at all.

[Karen Chong · Rating 2 out of 5]

I would have preferred this to be more encompassing. This seemed more like a sampler.

[Seto Elkahfi · Rating 4 out of 5]

As mentioned, great introduction.