Book Description
Some aspects of the CSS formatting model may seem counterintuitive at first, but as you’ll learn in this practical guide, the more you work with these features, the more they make sense. Author Eric Meyer gives you a good grounding in CSS visual rendering, from element box rules and concepts to the specifics of managing tricky layouts for block-level and inline elements.
Short and sweet, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Basic Visual Formatting in CSS, you’ll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it’s released. Why wait? Learn how to bring life to your web pages now.
Table of Contents
- Preface
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1. Basic Visual Formatting
- Basic Boxes
- Altering Element Display
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Inline Elements
- Line Layout
- Basic Terms and Concepts
- Inline Formatting
- Inline Nonreplaced Elements
- Building the Boxes
- Vertical Alignment
- Managing the line-height
- Scaling Line Heights
- Adding Box Properties
- Changing Breaking Behavior
- Glyphs Versus Content Area
- Inline Replaced Elements
- Adding Box Properties
- Replaced Elements and the Baseline
- Inline-Block Elements
- Run-in Elements
- Computed Values
- Summary