- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
- CONTENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ABOUT THE TECHNICAL REVIEWER
- ABOUT THE COVER IMAGE DESIGNER
- Acknowledgments
- Layout Conventions
- Part 1: INTRODUCTION: DIGESTING THE WEB'S ALPHABET SOUP
- Chapter 1: MARKUP UNDERPINS CSS
- Chapter 2: CSS FUNDAMENTALS FOR ADVANCED USE
- Part 2: ADVANCED CSS IN PRACTICE
- Chapter 3: CSS-GENERATED CONTENT
- Chapter 4: OPTIMIZING FOR PRINT
- Chapter 5: DEVELOPING FOR SMALL SCREENS AND THE MOBILE WEB
- Chapter 6: MANAGING AND ORGANIZING STYLE SHEETS
- The need for organization
- What organization looks like
- Using CSS features as architecture
- Good coding principles
- Taking advantage of inheritance
- Organizing from broad to specific
- Avoid overusing arbitrary <div> elements, IDs, or classes
- Dividing style sheets into logical sections
- Dividing design principles into files
- Use the shortest URL that works
- Good code formatting conventions
- Alphabetize your declarations
- Consistency is your ally
- Techniques for intra-team communication
- Persistent, preferred, and alternate style sheets
- Styling for media
- Summary
- Part 3: CSS PATTERNS AND ADVANCED TECHNIQUES
- Chapter 7: SEMANTIC PATTERNS FOR STYLING COMMON DESIGN COMPONENTS
- Chapter 8: USING A STYLE SHEET LIBRARY
- Chapter 9: STYLING XML WITH CSS
- Chapter 10: OPTIMIZING CSS FOR PERFORMANCE
- Why optimize?
- Optimization vs. organization
- Optimization techniques
- Optimizing with CSS shorthand, selector groups, and inheritance
- Avoid universal selectors or lengthy descendant selectors
- Put CSS at the top
- Prefer <link> elements over @import rules
- Compressing, combining, and minifying style sheets
- Avoid CSS expressions and filters
- Reference external CSS instead of inline styles
- Use absolute or fixed positioning on animated elements
- Diagnostic tools for CSS performance
- Summary
- Part 4: THE FUTURE OF CSS
- Chapter 11: EXPLORING THE EMERGENCE OF CSS3
- Chapter 12: THE FUTURE OF CSS AND THE WEB
- Index
ABOUT THE TECHNICAL REVIEWER
Paul Haine is a client-side developer currently working in London for the Guardian newspaper. He is the author of HTML Mastery: Semantics, Standards, and Styling (friends of ED, 2006) and runs a personal web site at www.joeblade.com.
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