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The CSS Pocket Guide
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The CSS Pocket Guide

by Chris Casciano
October 2010
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
4h 49m
English
Peachpit Press
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1. CSS Basics

There exists a trinity of standards-based web development technologies that when used in concert can create exciting, vibrant, interactive web sites out of what on their own are just a bunch of text files.

HTML provides the content and structure of the web page, JavaScript supplies the interaction and document manipulation, and CSS provides the presentation and flair.

What Is CSS?

CSS, short for Cascading Style Sheets, is a language for describing the presentational properties of content elements in structured documents such as HTML documents. Though this book will focus on styling HTML content, you can also use CSS for other structured documents such as those created with XML or SVG.

What Are Styles Sheets?

Style sheets provide ...

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