CSS3 Solutions: Essential Techniques for CSS3 Developers

Table of contents

1. Title
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. About the Authors
6. About the Technical Reviewer
7. About the Cover Image Designer
8. Acknowledgments
9. Introduction
10. Chapter 1: CSS Basics
    1. CSS3 Modules
    2. Solution 1-1: Discovering CSS3 compatibilities across browsers
    3. Solution 1-2: Adding a CSS3 file with JavaScript
    4. Solutions 1-3: Declaring multiple backgrounds for your web page
    5. Solution 1-4: Controlling the image aspect ratio
    6. Solution 1-5: Resetting CSS3 default values
    7. Summary
11. Chapter 2: CSS Selectors
    1. Differences compared to CSS2 selectors
    2. Solution 2-1: Highlighting selected text
    3. Solution 2-2: Enhancing the readability of tabular data
    4. Solution 2-3: Toggling form elements
    5. Solution 2-4: Preventing content from being selectable
    6. Solution 2-5: Hiding empty elements within a page
    7. Solution 2-6: Using the sibling combinator
    8. Solution 2-7: Putting an icon image next to links
    9. Summary
12. Chapter 3: Fonts, Text, and Color
    1. Solution 3-1: Using @font-face
    2. Solution 3-2: Using fallback fonts
    3. Solution 3-3: Using advanced text effects with text-shadow
    4. Solution 3-4: Forcing text to wrap
    5. Solution 3-5: Creating elegant text overflow
    6. Solution 3-6: Using color RGBa
    7. Solution 3-8: Optimizing text legibility with text-rendering
    8. Summary
13. Chapter 4: CSS Typography
    1. Solution 4-1: Handling hyphenation of text
    2. Solution 4-2: Creating drop caps
    3. Solution 4-3: Creating hanging punctuation
    4. Solution 4-4: Creating a typographic hierarchy
    5. Solution 4-5: Creating multicolumn text blocks
    6. Summary
14. Chapter 5: Tables and Lists
    1. Solution 5-1: Zebra-striping table rows
    2. Solution 5-2: Creating a styled pricing table
    3. Solution 5-3: Making tables responsive
    4. Solution 5-4: Creating a practical table with rounded corners
    5. Solution 5-5: Creating a drop-down menu with lists
    6. Solution 5-6: Using @counter-style for custom lists
    7. Solution 5-7: Using a flexible lists marker
    8. Summary
15. Chapter 6: CSS Box Model
    1. Solution 6-1: Setting background color and opacity
    2. Solution 6-2: Creating background gradients
    3. Solution 6-3: Setting background size
    4. Solution 6-4: Creating multiple backgrounds
    5. Solution 6-5: Creating border outlines
    6. Solution 6-6: Creating rounded corners
    7. Solution 6-7: Creating image borders
    8. Solution 6-8: Creating drop shadows
    9. Solution 6-9: Creating resizable boxes
    10. Summary
16. Chapter 7: CSS Positioning and Layouts
    1. Solution 7-1: Changing the display property
    2. Solution 7-2: Using CSS positioning
    3. Solution 7-3: Floating elements with CSS
    4. Solution 7-4: Clearing floats
    5. Solution 7-5: Using a CSS reset
    6. Summary
17. Chapter 8: Multidevice Development
    1. Solution 8-1: Defining different style sheets to target different devices with media queries
    2. Solution 8-2: Adapting a layout for different screen sizes with CSS3
    3. Solution 8-3: Handling layout orientation on mobile devices with CSS3
    4. Solution 8-4: Defining style rules for high-density pixel screens
    5. Solution 8-5: Styling a document for printing devices with CSS3
    6. Summary
18. Chapter 9: Transitions and Transformations
    1. Solution 9-1: Applying simple 2D transformations on HTML elements with CSS3
    2. Solution 9-2: Using matrix 2D transformations in CSS3
    3. Solution 9-3: Making elements move with CSS3 transitions
    4. Solution 9-4: Going further with animations in CSS3
    5. Solution 9-5: Applying 3D transformations in CSS3
    6. Summary
19. Chapter 10: Multimedia and Accessibility
    1. Solution10-1: Building a custom video player
    2. Solution 10-2: A CSS3 music player
    3. Solution 10-3: Improve the form accessibility with CSS3 validation
    4. Solution 10-4: An unobtrusive skip navigation link
    5. Summary
20. Chapter 11: UX Patterns
    1. Rules of thumb
    2. Solution 11-1: Ensuring visibility of system status
    3. Solution 11-2: Matching the system to the real world
    4. Solution 11-3: Building in user control and freedom
    5. Solution 11-4: Establishing error prevention
    6. Solution 11-5: Promoting recognition over recall
    7. Solution 11-6: Designing for efficiency of use
    8. Solution 11-7: Helping users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors
    9. Solution 11-8: Help and documentation
    10. Summary
21. Chapter 12: Mobile UX Patterns
    1. Considering mobile
    2. Solution 12-1: Scope. Cut. Repeat
    3. Solution 12-2: Design for context
    4. Solution 12-3: Craft the right approach
    5. Solution 12-4: Respond to the target view
    6. Solution 12-5: Go mobile first
    7. Summary
22. Index