CSS: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition

1. Chapter 1 CSS and Documents

   1. The Web's Fall from Grace

   2. CSS to the Rescue

   3. Elements

   4. Bringing CSS and XHTML Together

   5. Summary

2. Chapter 2 Selectors

   1. Basic Rules

   2. Grouping

   3. Class and ID Selectors

   4. Attribute Selectors

   5. Using Document Structure

   6. Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements

   7. Summary

3. Chapter 3 Structure and the Cascade

   1. Specificity

   2. Inheritance

   3. The Cascade

   4. Summary

4. Chapter 4 Values and Units

   1. Numbers

   2. Percentages

   3. Color

   4. Length Units

   5. URLs

   6. CSS2 Units

   7. Summary

5. Chapter 5 Fonts

   1. Font Families

   2. Font Weights

   3. Font Size

   4. Styles and Variants

   5. Stretching and Adjusting Fonts

   6. The font Property

   7. Font Matching

   8. Summary

6. Chapter 6 Text Properties

   1. Indentation and Horizontal Alignment

   2. Vertical Alignment

   3. Word Spacing and Letter Spacing

   4. Text Transformation

   5. Text Decoration

   6. Text Shadows

   7. Summary

7. Chapter 7 Basic Visual Formatting

   1. Basic Boxes

   2. Block-Level Elements

   3. Inline Elements

   4. Altering Element Display

   5. Summary

8. Chapter 8 Padding, Borders, and Margins

   1. Basic Element Boxes

   2. Margins

   3. Borders

   4. Padding

   5. Summary

9. Chapter 9 Colors and Backgrounds

   1. Colors

   2. Foreground Colors

   3. Backgrounds

   4. Summary

10. Chapter 10 Floating and Positioning

    1. Floating

    2. Positioning

    3. Summary

11. Chapter 11 Table Layout

    1. Table Formatting

    2. Table Cell Borders

    3. Table Sizing

    4. Summary

12. Chapter 12 Lists and Generated Content

    1. Lists

    2. Generated Content

    3. Summary

13. Chapter 13 User Interface Styles

    1. System Fonts and Colors

    2. Cursors

    3. Outlines

    4. Summary

14. Chapter 14 Non-Screen Media

    1. Designating Medium-Specific Style Sheets

    2. Paged Media

    3. Aural Styles

    4. Summary

1. Appendix A Property Reference

   1. Visual Media

   2. Tables

   3. Paged Media

   4. Dropped from CSS2.1

   5. Visual Styles

   6. Paged Media

   7. Aural Styles

2. Appendix B Selector, Pseudo-Class, and Pseudo-Element Reference

   1. Selectors

   2. Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements

3. Appendix C Sample HTML 4 Style Sheet

4. Colophon

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The animals on the cover of CSS: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition are salmon (salmonidae), which is a family of fish consisting of many different species. Two of the most common salmon are the Pacific salmon and the Atlantic salmon.
Pacific salmon live in the northern Pacific Ocean off the coasts of North America and Asia. There are five subspecies of Pacific salmon, with an average weight of 10 to 30 pounds. Pacific salmon are born in the fall in freshwater stream gravel beds, where they incubate through the winter and emerge as inch-long fish. They live for a year or two in streams or lakes and then head downstream to the ocean. There they live for a few years, before heading back upstream to their exact place of birth to spawn and then die.
Atlantic salmon live in the northern Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of North America and Europe. There are many subspecies of Atlantic salmon, including the trout and the char. Their average weight is 10 to 20 pounds. The Atlantic salmon family has a life cycle similar to that of its Pacific cousins, and also travels from freshwater gravel beds to the sea. A major difference between the two, however, is that the Atlantic salmon does not die after spawning; it can return to the ocean and then return to the stream to spawn again, usually two or three times.
Salmon, in general, are graceful, silver-colored fish with spots on their backs and fins. Their diet consists of plankton, insect larvae, shrimp, and smaller fish. Their unusually keen sense of smell is thought to help them navigate from the ocean back to the exact spot of their birth, upstream past many obstacles. Some species of salmon remain landlocked, living their entire lives in freshwater.
Salmon are an important part of the ecosystem, as their decaying bodies provide fertilizer for streambeds. Their numbers have been dwindling over the years, however. Factors in the declining salmon population include habitat destruction, fishing, dams that block spawning paths, acid rain, droughts, floods, and pollution.
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