Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program, Fifth Edition

5. Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets™ (CSS): Part 2

Art is when things appear rounded.

—Maurice Denis

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

—Thomas Jefferson

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

• Add text shadows and text-stroke effects.

• Create rounded corners.

• Add shadows to elements.

• Create linear and radial gradients, and reflections.

• Create animations, transitions and transformations.

• Use multiple background images and image borders.

• Create a multicolumn layout.

• Use flexible box model layout and :nth-child selectors.

• Use the @font-face rule to specify fonts for a web page.

• Use ...