CSS Hacks

by Kevin C Smith

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This is the book you have been waiting for. Having learned to use CSS to control the look and feel of your web pages, you're ready for hot tips and new techniques to streamline the design process and add a new level of style and sophistication to what you produce. This is exactly what ""CSS Hacks"" gives you.

CSS is ultimately a script-like language, with lots of undocumented corners and niches, and author Kevin C. Smith has captured 100 original tips and tricks for using CSS in new and unusual ways. These include hacks for using CSS in place of JavaScript for creating dropdown menus and image rollovers, adding rounded box corners, anchoring elements so they don't move when scrolling, displaying text backward to give the browser a mirror, highlighting required fields on a form, and changing the mouse pointer to alert viewers to the nature of an element. The book contains scores of hacks for styling text, working with links, enhancing forms, making better lists, and embellishing the printed output. ""CSS Hacks"" is a must for ascending to the next level of web page design.

  • ISBN10 0596102194
  • ISBN13 9780596102197
  • Publish Date 17 October 2006
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Out of Print 4 April 2007
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 400
  • Language English