Books by Eric A. Meyer

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CSS and Documents

by Eric A. Meyer
333 pages - - 0.98 MB New!

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 possible for you to completely change the way document elements are presented by a user agent. You’ll discover the origins of this specification and how CSS styles work with HTML.

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CSS Text

by Eric A. Meyer
333 pages - - 11.32 MB New!

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, text wrapping, and the direction of text flow.

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CSS Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

by Eric A. Meyer
333 pages - - 2.01 MB New!

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 CSS3, the latest version of the Cascading Style Sheet specification. Along with a complete alphabetical reference to CSS3 selectors and properties, you’ll also find a short introduction to the key concepts of CSS.

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Values, Units, and Colors

by Eric A. Meyer
333 pages - - 2.57 MB New!

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 of external files, and other values.

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Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade

by Eric A. Meyer
333 pages - - 3.19 MB New!

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 ways they function—and sometimes collide—within the document’s structure.

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Transforms in CSS

by Eric A. Meyer
333 pages - - 4.55 MB New!

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 you how to use them to great effect.

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Basic Visual Formatting in CSS

by Eric A. Meyer
333 pages - - 3.38 MB New!

Some aspects of the CSS formatting model may seem counterintuitive at first, but as you’ll learn in this practical guide, the more you work with these features, the more they make sense. Author Eric Meyer gives you a good grounding in CSS visual rendering, from element box rules and concepts to the specifics of managing tricky layouts for block-level and inline elements.

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Colors, Backgrounds, and Gradients

by Eric A. Meyer
333 pages - - 24.23 MB New!

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 effects.

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Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins in CSS

by Eric A. Meyer
333 pages - - 11.06 MB New!

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 of any element on the page.