Readers will learn to wrap their online content in appealing visual designs using CSS, including special dramatic effects such as animated transitions between pages. Style sheets can provide striking, well-designed containers into which relatively plain HTML content is poured.

    In addition, CSS offers finer control over many elements in
a Web page. For example, using CSS you can highlight a button to show that it currently has the focus on the page. Effects like that are not possible using ordinary HTML, though they are widely used in traditional Windows applications.
The end result of using CSS is a more attractive Web site
with a more coherent, effective overall design.

- Special coverage on browser incompatibility issues involving
   CSS and solving problems

- This book covers all the essentials of CSS, with many
   step-by-step examples showing how to manage the
   various elements of CSS including:

   - Browser independence
   - Inheritance
   - Best coding techniques
   - Page elements (spacing, fonts, colors, and so on)
   - Practical ways to integrate CSS into new or existing
      Web sites
   - Syntax rules, properties and values
   - Embedded and external style sheets
   - Advanced Visual Effects such as Transitions
   - XML integration
   - Selectors and declarations
   - The latest CSS3 features

Part I The ABCs of CSS
Part II Looking good with CSS
Part III Adding artistry : design and composition with CSS
Part IV Advanced CSS techniques
Part V The part of tens

Author Description

Richard Mansfield is an experienced programmer and the author of several bestselling books, including Office 2003 Application Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies.