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CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
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CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition

by Eric Meyer, Estelle Weyl
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1090 pages
27h 54m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

If you are a web designer or document author interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and saving time and effort, this book is for you. All you really need to know before starting the book is HTML 4.0. The better you know HTML, the better prepared you’ll be, but it is not a requirement. You will need to know very little else to follow this book.

This fourth edition of the book was finished in mid-2017 and does its best to reflect the state of CSS at that time. The assumption is that anything covered in detail either had wide browser support at the time of writing or was known to be coming soon after publication. CSS features which were still being developed, or were known to have support dropping soon, are not covered here.

Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used in this book (but make sure to read through the subsection “Value Syntax Conventions” to see how some of these are modified):

Italic

Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, and file extensions.

Constant width

Used for program listings, as well as within paragraphs to refer to program elements such as variable or function names, databases, data types, environment variables, statements, and keywords.

Constant width bold

Shows commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user.

Constant width italic

Shows text that should be replaced with user-supplied values or by values determined by context.

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