Eric Meyer: 116 books
CSS Floating
Floats and Float Shapes
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
While flowing text around images is certainly nothing new, with CSS you can float any element, from images to paragraphs to lists. In this practical guide, author Eric Meyer reveals some interesting—and surprising—ways to use CSS floats in your web design, including the latest capability to flow...
Positioning in CSS
Layout Enhancements for the Web
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The Grid Layout spec will soon change your approach to website design, but there will still be plenty of uses for CSS positioning tricks. Whether you want to create sidebars that remain in the viewport (browser window), add sticky section headings to lists or long articles, or overlap one element...
by Eric A. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a powerful tool that transforms the presentation of a document or a collection of documents, and it’s spread to nearly every corner of the Web—as well as many non-web environments. In this free introduction to Cascade Style Sheets, you’ll learn how CSS makes it...
Colors, Backgrounds, and Gradients
Adding Individuality with CSS
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
One advantage of using CSS3 is that you can apply colors and backgrounds to any element in a web document, create your own gradients, and even apply multiple backgrounds to the same element. This practical guide shows you many ways to use colors, backgrounds, and gradients to achieve some pretty awesome...
Transforms in CSS
Revamp the Way You Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Present information in stunning new ways by transforming CSS elements in two- and three-dimensional space. Whether you’re rotating a photo, doing some interesting perspective tricks, or creating an interface that lets you reveal information on an element’s backside, this practical guide shows...
CSS Pocket Reference
Visual Presentation for the Web
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
They say that good things come in small packages, and it's certainly true for this edition of CSS Pocket Reference. Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1, this indispensable little book covers the most essential information that web designers...
CSS Pocket Reference
Visual Presentation for the Web
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
When you're working with CSS and need a quick answer, CSS Pocket Reference delivers. This handy, concise book provides all of the essential information you need to implement CSS on the fly. Ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers, the 4th edition is revised and updated for...
Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade
Applying CSS3 to Documents
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Exactly how does the "cascade" in Cascading Style Sheets work? This concise guide demonstrates the power and simplicity of CSS selectors for applying style rules to different web page elements. You’ll learn how your page’s presentation depends on a multitude of style rules and the complex...
CSS Text
Styling Your Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
As a web designer, you probably spend more time working with text than any other element. With this concise guide, you’ll learn CSS3 properties for changing the appearance of text without altering the font face—including horizontal and vertical alignment, text transformation, word and letter spacing,...
Values, Units, and Colors
Foundational CSS3 Components
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Nearly everything you do with CSS involves units for determining the look and formatting of your web page elements. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to work with an array of units—including measurements and keywords—that help you define color, text, distance between elements, location...
CSS Pocket Reference
Visual Presentation for the Web
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When you’re working with CSS and need an answer now, this concise yet comprehensive quick reference provides the essential information you need. Revised and updated for CSS3, this fifth edition is ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers.
You’ll find a short introduction...
CSS Fonts
Web Typography Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
From custom fonts to ad-hoc font families you assemble out of a variety of individual faces, CSS 3 gives you more typographic options than ever before. This concise guide shows you how to use CSS properties to gain a fine-grained and wide-ranging influence over how you display fonts on the Web.
Short...
Table Layout in CSS
CSS Table Rendering in Detail
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Isn’t table layout something web designers want to avoid? Yes, but rather than use tables for layout, this book is about the ways that tables themselves are laid out by CSS, a process more complicated than it appears. This concise guide takes you on a deep dive into the concepts necessary for understanding...
Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins in CSS
CSS Box Model Details
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
The ability to apply margins, borders, and padding to any web page element is one of the things that sets CSS so far above traditional markup. With this practical guide, you will not only learn how to use these properties to lay out your document, but also how to change and control the appearance...