CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, Sixth Edition

13. Essential Design and Interface Techniques

In This Chapter

Getting Started

Creating Multicolumn Layouts with Float

Fixing the Float

Styling Links vs. Navigation

Using CSS Sprites

Creating a CSS Drop-Down Menu

Putting It All Together

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.

Getting Started

This chapter uses Chapter 9 from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with the styles added in Chapters 5–12. It also includes a table of contents ...