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CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
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CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition

by David Sawyer McFarland
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
558 pages
18h 5m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Index

A note on the digital index

A link in an index entry is displayed as the section title in which that entry appears. Because some sections have multiple index markers, it is not unusual for an entry to have several links to the same section. Clicking on any link will take you directly to the place in the text in which the marker appears.

Symbols

!important declaration, The Tiebreaker: Last Style Wins, Using !important to Override Onscreen Styling
# (pound symbol) preceding ID selector, ID Selectors: Specific Page Elements
. (period) preceding class selector name, Tag Selectors: Page-Wide Styling
* (asterisk) as universal selector, Constructing Group Selectors
* html hack, Controlling the Tap with the Overflow Property, Double-Margin Bug, Isolate CSS for IE with Conditional Comments
*= (asterisk, equal) preceding contains attribute selectors,, Attribute Selectors
+ (plus sign) in adjacent siblings selectors, Adjacent Siblings
3-Column Layout Index, Miscellaneous Layout Resources
30 Excellent CSS Based Navigation and Buttons Tutorial, Tutorials
960 Grid System framework, Layout Examples
: (colon) between property and value, Anatomy of a Style
:active pseudo-class, Understanding Link States, Understanding Link States
:after pseudo-element, :after, content
:before pseudo-element, :before, content
:first-child selector, :first-child, Child Selectors
:first-letter pseudo-element, Styling Paragraph Parts, Formatting the First Letter or First Line of a Paragraph
:first-line pseudo-element, Styling Paragraph ...
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