CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition

14. Essential CSS Techniques

In This Chapter

Creating Multicolumn Layouts with Float 346

Styling Links Versus Navigation 350

Using CSS Sprites 354

Creating a CSS Drop-down Menu 357

There are a few critical recipes that every Web designer needs to know to begin putting their CSS skills to work. These applications of CSS have become so standard that they form the core of the vast majority of Web designs you will see.

Let’s look at these core applications of CSS to create columns, style menus, and drop-down menus; and use CSS sprites.

Code 14.1. The HTML5 code you’ll be playing with in this chapter . It’s a little different from the code used ...