101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks CSS

Chapter 1: Getting Started with CSS
This chapter does not follow the same format as the rest of the book—it’s
simply a quick CSS tutorial for anyone who needs to brush up on the basics
of CSS. If you’ve been using CSS in your own projects, you might want to
skip this chapter and refer back to it on a needs basis, if you find you want
to look into basic concepts in more detail.

Chapter 2: Text Styling and Other Basics
This chapter covers techniques for styling and formatting text in your documents; font sizing, colors, and the removal of annoying extra white space
around page elements are explained as the chapter progresses. Even if you’re
already using CSS for text styling, you will find some useful tips here.

Chapter 3: CSS and Images
Combining CSS and images can create powerful visual effects. This chapter
looks at the ways in which you can do this, and covers background images
(not just on the body), and positioning text with images, among other topics.

Chapter 4: Navigation
We all need navigation, and this chapter explains how to do it, CSS-style.
The questions of CSS replacements for image-based navigation, CSS “tab”
navigation, combining background images with CSS text to create attractive
and accessible menus, and using lists to structure navigation in an accessible
way are addressed in this chapter.

Chapter 5: Tabular Data
While the use of tables for layout is to be avoided wherever possible, tables
should be used for their real purpose: the display of tabular data, such as that
contained in a spreadsheet. This chapter will demonstrate techniques for the
application of tables to create attractive and usable tabular data displays.

Chapter 6: Forms and User Interfaces
Whether you’re a designer or a developer, it’s likely that you’ll spend a fair
amount of time creating forms for data entry. CSS can help you to create
forms that are attractive and more usable; this chapter shows how we can do
that while bearing the key accessibility principles in mind.

Chapter 7: Browser and Device Support
How can we deal with older browsers, browsers with CSS bugs, and alternate
devices? These questions form the main theme of this chapter. We’ll also see
how to troubleshoot CSS bugs—and where to go for help—and discuss the
ways you can test your site in as many browsers as possible.

Chapter 8: CSS Positioning and Layout
In this chapter, we explore the use of CSS to create beautiful and accessible
pages. We cover a range of different CSS layouts, and a variety of techniques,
which can be combined and extended upon to create a range of different page
layouts.

Chapter 9: Experimentation, Browser Specific CSS, and Future Techniques
Through the text so far, I’ve presented techniques that will work well crossbrowser, and don’t involve rafts of CSS “hacks” in order to work. But, in this chapter, we look at newer techniques that don’t work so well cross-browser, or that need quite a lot of extra effort on your part, in order to do so.
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