Chapter 7. Advanced Page Formatting Using Style Sheets

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Introduction to CSS

• CSS versus HTML

• Designing CSS Styles Using Classes

• Style Categories

• Applying Styles

• Designing CSS Styles by Redefining HTML Tags

• Working with Pseudo-Classes

• Designing CSS Styles by Using IDs

• CSS Validation

• Designing Time Style Sheets

• Built-in CSS Page Designs

As you have seen, HTML is extremely restrictive when it comes to web page formatting, but this is by no means a fault of the language. Unfortunately, many beginning developers who are expert designers in the print industry jump to web development thinking that WYSIWYG editors function much the same way as popular print design programs like InDesign and Quark. They think visually ...

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