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Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript, 4th Edition
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Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript, 4th Edition

by Robin Nixon
December 2014
Beginner
806 pages
18h 10m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 19. Advanced CSS with CSS3

The first implementation of CSS was drawn up in 1996, was released in 1999, and has been supported by all browser releases since 2001. The standard for this version, CSS1, was revised in 2008. Beginning in 1998, developers began drawing up the second specification, CSS2; its standard was completed in 2007 and revised in 2009.

Development for the CSS3 specification commenced in 2001, with some features being proposed as recently as 2009. Therefore, the development process will likely continue for some time before a final recommendation for CSS3 is approved. And even though CSS3 isn’t yet complete, people are already beginning to put forward suggestions for CSS4.

In this chapter, I’ll take you through the CSS3 features that have already been generally adopted by the major browsers. Some of these features provide functionality that hitherto could be provided only with JavaScript.

I recommend using CSS3 to implement dynamic features where you can, instead of JavaScript. The features provided by CSS make document attributes part of the document itself, instead of being tacked on through JavaScript. Making them part of the document is a cleaner design.

Attribute Selectors

In the previous chapter, I detailed the various CSS attribute selectors, which I will now quickly recap. Selectors are used in CSS to match HTML elements, and there are 10 different types, as detailed in Table 19-1.

Table 19-1. CSS selectors, pseudoclasses, and pseudoelements
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