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Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes Nov 2005

by Russ Weakley

The short, focused lessons presented in Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes will help you quickly understand cascading style sheets (CSS) and how to immediately apply it to your work. Author Russ Weakley is a well-respected member of the CSS community and is known for his ability to make complicated concepts easy-to-understand for even inexperienced CSS users. With this book, you will cover the essentials for standards compliant techniques that are supported by the most common browsers. Once you master the basics, Weakley will also take you inside positioning, troubleshooting CSS, and handling common CSS bugs. Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes is the ultimate quick learning tool and handy desk reference guide to CSS.

The short, focused lessons presented in Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes will help you quickly understand cascading style sheets (CSS) and how to immediately apply it to your work. Author Russ Weakley is a well-respected member of the CSS community and is known for his ability to make complicated concepts easy-to-understand for even inexperienced CSS users. With this book, you will cover the essentials for standards compliant techniques that are supported by the most common browsers. Once you master the basics, Weakley will also take you inside positioning, troubleshooting CSS, and handling common CSS bugs. Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes is the ultimate quick learning tool and handy desk reference guide to CSS.

Introduction

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple and powerful language for adding style to web documents. Whether you are a web designer, developer, or anywhere in between, CSS is an important part of developing websites.

Many web developers still use tables for layout and do not understand the benefits of CSS. Although there are many good CSS resources and books available, people are often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information. It is hard to decide the best place to start.

Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes is designed to help you get a handle on CSS quickly and easily through a series of step-by-step lessons.

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for you if any (or all) of the following apply:

• You're new to CSS

• You want a simple, hands-on guide to using CSS

• You want to quickly learn how to get the most out of CSS

• You want to learn new ways to use CSS

How This Book Works

Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes is divided into 22 lessons that gradually build on one another. By the end of the book, you should have a solid understanding of CSS and how to apply it in a variety of real-world situations.

Each lesson is written in simple steps so that you can quickly grasp the overall concept and put it into practice. The lessons are also designed to stand alone so that you can jump directly to particular topics as needed.

Online Support Files

Each lesson from Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes has support files that can be downloaded from the Sams Publishing website. The files can either be downloaded as a single file for all lessons, or individually for each lesson.

The address is http://www.samspublishing.com/.

Conventions Used in This Book

This book uses different typefaces to differentiate between HTML/CSS code and other content.

HTML and CSS code are presented using monospace type. Bold text indicates a change in code from the previous step.

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Note - A Note presents pertinent pieces of information related to the surrounding discussion.

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Caution - A Caution advises you about potential problems having to do with CSS or its implementation in specific browsers.

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Tip - Tip offers advice or demonstrates an easier way to do something.

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