CSS & CSS3: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

  • 2h 54m
  • Robin Nixon
  • McGraw-Hill/Osborne
  • 2015

CSS & CSS3: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development provides easy-to-follow lessons that use text, sample exercises, and video for the entry-level CSS programmer. Each lesson is designed to take you less than an hour to complete. All the basics of CSS through to more advanced features like adding dynamic effects, animation, transitions, and web fonts are covered. This practical guide also introduces just enough of the additional technologies and techniques¯like HTML and JavaScript¯needed to complete the lessons.

  • One-hour lessons teach practical techniques that can be applied immediately
  • Wrap ups contain a summary, tips for further study, and self-test questions
  • Online video accompanying each lesson offer valuable, step-by-step instruction

About the Author

Robin Nixon is an experienced web developer, author, and teacher, with over 30 years' experience. He has written more than 500 articles and almost 30 books, including The Web Developer's Cookbook, HTML5 for iOS and Android: A Beginner's Guide, Plug-In CSS, Plug-In JavaScript, and Plug-In PHP.

In this Book

  • CSS & CSS3—20 Lessons to Successful Web Development
  • Introduction
  • Introduction to CSS
  • Learning the CSS Rules
  • Applying Declarations to IDs and Classes
  • Accessing Selectors
  • Working with the Cascade
  • Selecting Fonts and Typography
  • Manipulating Color and Position
  • Handling Pseudo-Selectors and Using Shorthand Properties
  • Understanding the Box Model
  • Introduction to CSS3
  • Using Selectors and Attribute Selectors
  • Setting Backgrounds
  • Attaching Borders
  • Controlling Box Shadows, Overflow, and Columns
  • Adding Colors and Opacity
  • Creating Text Effects and Changing the Box Model
  • Linking to Web Fonts
  • Making 2D Transformations
  • Applying Specific Transformations
  • Directing 3D Transformations
  • Answers to the Self-Test Questions
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