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• CSS: The Ultimate Reference

• By: Tommy Olssen; Paul O'Brien

• Publisher: SitePoint

• Pub. Date: February 26, 2008

• Print ISBN-13: 978-0-9802858-5-7

• Pages in Print Edition: 440

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A complete and thorough and up-to-date reference guide for CSS.

Stop wasting time doing Internet searches only to find inaccurate, out-of-date, or incomplete information. CSS: The Ultimate Reference includes all the ins-and-outs you need to know including compatability information for all major browsers, lists of useful hacks, known bugs in CSS, and much more - all presented in a beautiful, full color layout.

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preface

Section P.1. About the Expert Reviewers

Section P.2. About the Technical Editor

Section P.3. About the Technical Director

Section P.4. About SitePoint

Section P.5. The Online Reference

Section P.6. Your Feedback

Section P.7. Reprint Permissions

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1 TokenChapter 1. What Is CSS?

Section 1.1. CSS Versions

Section 1.2. Linking CSS to a Web Document

Section 1.3. Media Queries

Section 1.4. Standards Mode, Quirks Mode, and Doctype Sniffing

Section 1.5. Summary

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1 TokenChapter 2. General Syntax and Nomenclature

Section 2.1. 

Section 2.2. Statements

Section 2.3. At-rules

Section 2.4. Rule Sets

Section 2.5. Selectors

Section 2.6. Declaration Blocks

Section 2.7. Declarations, Properties, and Values

Section 2.8. CSS Comments

Section 2.9. CSS Identifiers

Section 2.10. CSS Escape Notation

Section 2.11. CSS Syntax Errors

Section 2.12. Summary

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1 TokenChapter 3. At-rules Reference

Section 3.1.  @charset

Section 3.2.  @import

Section 3.3.  @media

Section 3.4.  @page

Section 3.5.  @font-face

Section 3.6.  @namespace

Chapter 4. Selector Reference

Section 4.1.  Universal Selector

Section 4.2.  Element Type Selector

Section 4.3.  Class Selector

Section 4.4.  ID Selector

Section 4.5.  Attribute Selector

Section 4.6. Selector Grouping

Section 4.7.  Combinators

Section 4.8. Pseudo-classes

Section 4.9. Pseudo-elements

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1 TokenChapter 5. The Cascade, Specificity, and Inheritance

Section 5.1. The Cascade

Section 5.2. !important Declarations

Section 5.3. Specificity

Section 5.4. Summary

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1 TokenChapter 6. CSS Layout and Formatting

Section 6.1. The Viewport, the Page Box, and the Canvas

Section 6.2. The CSS Box Model

Section 6.3. Formatting Concepts

Section 6.4. Positioning

Section 6.5. Summary

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1 TokenChapter 7. Box Properties

Section 7.1. Dimensions

Section 7.2. Margins

Section 7.3. Padding

Section 7.4. Borders and Outlines

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1 TokenChapter 8. Layout Properties

Section 8.1.  display

Section 8.2.  position

Section 8.3.  float

Section 8.4.  clear

Section 8.5.  visibility

Section 8.6.  top

Section 8.7.  right

Section 8.8.  bottom

Section 8.9.  left

Section 8.10.  z-index

Section 8.11.  overflow

Section 8.12.  clip

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1 TokenChapter 9. List Properties

Section 9.1.  list-style-type

Section 9.2.  list-style-position

Section 9.3.  list-style-image

Section 9.4.  list-style

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1 TokenChapter 10. Table Properties

Section 10.1.  table-layout

Section 10.2.  border-collapse

Section 10.3.  border-spacing

Section 10.4.  empty-cells

Section 10.5.  caption-side

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1 TokenChapter 11. Color and Backgrounds

Section 11.1.  background-color

Section 11.2.  background-image

Section 11.3.  background-repeat

Section 11.4.  background-position

Section 11.5.  background-attachment

Section 11.6.  background

Section 11.7.  color

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1 TokenChapter 12. Typographical Properties

Section 12.1.  font-family

Section 12.2.  font-size

Section 12.3.  font-weight

Section 12.4.  font-style

Section 12.5.  font-variant

Section 12.6.  font

Section 12.7.  letter-spacing

Section 12.8.  word-spacing

Section 12.9.  line-height

Section 12.10.  text-align

Section 12.11.  text-decoration

Section 12.12.  text-indent

Section 12.13.  text-transform

Section 12.14.  text-shadow

Section 12.15.  vertical-align

Section 12.16.  white-space

Section 12.17.  direction

Section 12.18.  unicode-bidi

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1 TokenChapter 13. Generated Content

Section 13.1.  content

Section 13.2.  counter-increment

Section 13.3.  counter-reset

Section 13.4.  quotes

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1 TokenChapter 14. User Interface Properties

Section 14.1.  cursor

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1 TokenChapter 15. Paged Media Properties

Section 15.1.  page-break-before

Section 15.2.  page-break-inside

Section 15.3.  page-break-after

Section 15.4.  orphans

Section 15.5.  widows

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1 TokenChapter 16. Vendor-specific Properties

Section 16.1. Mozilla Extensions

Section 16.2. Internet Explorer Extensions

Section 16.3. Summary

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1 TokenChapter 17. Workarounds, Filters, and Hacks

Section 17.1. 

Section 17.2. Internet Explorer Conditional Comments

Section 17.3. Workarounds and Filters

Section 17.4. CSS Hacks

Section 17.5. Summary

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1 TokenChapter 18. Differences Between HTML and XHTML

Section 18.1. MIME Types

Section 18.2. Case Sensitivity

Section 18.3. Optional Tags

Section 18.4. Root Element Properties

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1 TokenAppendix A. Alphabetic Property Index

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