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CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web 4th Edition
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If you’re a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and saving time and effort, this book is for you. This revised edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications.
CSS is a constantly evolving language for describing the presentation of web content on screen, printers, speech synthesizers, screen readers, and chat windows. It is used by all browsers on all screen sizes on all types of IoT devices, including phones, computers, video games, televisions, watches, kiosks, and auto consoles. Authors Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl show you how to improve user experience, speed development, avoid potential bugs, and add life and depth to your applications through layout, transitions and animations, borders, backgrounds, text properties, and many other tools and techniques.
This guide covers:
- Selectors, specificity, and the cascade
- Values, units, fonts, and text properties
- Padding, borders, outlines, and margins
- Colors, backgrounds, and gradients
- Floats and positioning tricks
- Flexible box layout
- The new Grid layout system
- 2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and animation
- Filters, blending, clipping, and masking
- Media and feature queries
- ISBN-101449393195
- ISBN-13978-1449393199
- Edition4th
- PublisherO'Reilly Media
- Publication dateDecember 5, 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.9 x 2.1 x 9.1 inches
- Print length1088 pages
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Estelle Weyl is a front-end engineer who has been developing standards-based accessible websites since 1999. She writes two technical blogs pulling millions of visitors, and speaks about CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript and mobile web development at conferences around the world.
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- Publisher : O'Reilly Media; 4th edition (December 5, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 1088 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1449393195
- ISBN-13 : 978-1449393199
- Item Weight : 3.7 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.9 x 2.1 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #665,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #36 in CSS Programming
- #421 in Web Design (Books)
- #2,603 in Internet & Social Media
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About the authors
Estelle Weyl read the specifications so you don't have to.
Eric A. Meyer starting working on the web in late 1993. A past member of the CSS Working Group, he is the author of several acclaimed CSS books as well as many articles on CSS and web standards. More recently, he co-founded the conference series An Event Apart with Jeffrey Zeldman and speaks about web standards all over the world. In recognition of his work, he was inducted into the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2006.
A longtime resident of Cleveland, Ohio—which is a much nicer city than you've been led to believe—Eric used to be a weekly radio presence on WRUW 91.1-FM with a show covering the Big Band era. He now spends most of his free time reading, searching out great dishes, and playing with his wife and daughters.
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Appendix A – Animatable Properties
The properties included here are the properties given in the CSS Transitions specification and are CSS2.1.
Appendix B – Basic Property Reference
Properties are listed by name and are in alphabetical order. Example, picked at random:
Property
word-break
Default value
normal
Value syntax
normal |break-all|keep-all
Inh
Y
Anim
Y
Appendix C – Color Equivalence Table
This table lists the Color Name, RGB decimal, RGB percentage, HSL and Hexadecimal for about 4 pages worth of colors. You can look up colors by name and it serves as a quick reference for finding a color code to type in your style sheet. Example, picked at random:
Color Name
lightgray
RGB decimal
rgb(211,211,211)
RGB percentage
rgb(82.7%,82.7%,82.7%)
HSL
hsl(0,0,82.7%)
Hexadecimal
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The content included in this book makes it clear the authors are experienced web developers. I’m going to look through my other CSS books and discard some in favor of this new one.
I wish I could own this with a hard cover. I also wish I could shake Mr. Meyer’s and Ms. Weyl’s hands and thank them while also acknowledging the worn-down nubs that used to be their typing fingers.
Buy this physical book! You will not regret it.
Pro tip: buy some post-it flags while you’re at it because you are going to want to bookmark the heck out of it.
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Eric Meyer is always a pleasure to read. He writes in a manor that is easy to read, and his high level of knowledge of a subject shines throughout this book. It IS a long read, and many parts you may have to read 2 or 3 times to absorb the content.
I am only about 1/2 way through, but have already incorporated much of what I have learned so far to greatly improve readability and other issues on the web sites I manage.
Recommend this highly for any developers ready to go the next step. Makes no difference the scripting language you use, we all need better CSS skills.
I am docking one star due to two issues with the Kindle edition of the book:
1) There is no table of contents. This makes easily jumping to content of interest difficult, and is requiring that I fill my highlights with section headings.
2) There are formatting issues such as section headings not having margins, tables having odd alignment and wrapping (which breaks highlighting), note sections which look like they should be formatted differently but aren't, etc.
I would encourage the authors and/or publisher to work on these flaws and release an update. If such an update is released I will happily re-visit my review.
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quasi exhaustif (à la date de 2017) avec des exemples très clairs, et tout cela avec une bonne dose d'humour.
On ne peut que s'incliner devant le travail des 2 auteurs. Si j'ai acheté cette édition en ebook,
j'achèterai définitivement la prochaine édition - que j'attends avec impatience - en version papier pour la garder sur mon bureau.
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Dos de las autoridades más respetadas en el lenguaje CSS te van explicando minuciosamente todos los entresijos de las hojas de estilos. La narración es precisa y detallada pero fácil de entender. Todos los puntos que resultan algo retorcidos o confusos están reforzados con un abundante número de ejemplos llenos de imágenes e ilustraciones.
El libro está muy bien estructurado. Se puede leer de principio a fin o saltar entre los capítulos a voluntad. Se incluyen muchas referencias cruzadas para ampliar información cuando se hace referencia a algo que ya ha sido explicado o viceversa.
Personalmente es un libro que me ha ayudado muchísimo a entender ciertos detalles y asuntos que siempre me daban problemas (aparentemente inexplicables, pero que no lo eran). Para cada capítulo, no hay nada que se quede sin tocar. Por ejemplo, los autores no dudan en utilizar unas 110 páginas solo para explicar las propiedades relacionadas con el texto y las fuentes. Pese a ello, como ya dicho, es relativamente ameno y no se hace nada pesado (si tienes interés en conocer los detalles, claro está).
Se incluyen aspectos avanzados como el flex box, grid layout, table layout, transforms, transiciones, animaciones, etc. Lo recomiendo a todo el que busque un conocimiento sólido y profundo de las hojas de estilo. No creo que se haya escrito nada igual. He tenido algunos otros libros de CSS y no servían para nada.
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I've had every edition over the years and never regretted getting the newer versions.
When this arrived I thought initially that amazon had delivered the wrong item, as the package was rather heavy. But opening revealed a vast tome of over 1000 pages. Its good. Just take care not to drop it on your foot.