Books by Eric A. Meyer

Get the essential information you need to implement CSS effectively with this concise yet comprehensive quick reference. Ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers, this 4th edition is revised and updated for CSS3, the latest version of the Cascading Style Sheet specification.

If youre a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and saving time and effort, this book is for you. This revised edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications.CSS is a constantly evolving language for describing the presentation of web content on screen, printers, speech synthesizers, screen readers, and chat windows. It is used by all browsers on all screen sizes on all types of IoT devices, including phones, computers, video games, televisions, watches, kiosks, and auto consoles. Authors Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl show you how to improve user experience, speed development, avoid potential bugs, and add life and depth to your applications through layout, transitions and animations, borders, backgrounds, text properties, and many other tools and techniques.This guide covers:Selectors, specificity, and the cascadeValues, units, fonts, and text propertiesPadding, borders, outlines, and marginsColors, backgrounds, and gradientsFloats and positioning tricksFlexible box layoutThe new Grid layout system2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and animationFilters, blending, clipping, and maskingMedia and feature queries

Nearly everything you do with CSS involves units for determining the look and formatting of your web page elements. With this concise guide, youll learn how to work with an array of unitsincluding measurements and keywordsthat help you define color, text, distance between elements, location of external files, and other values.This book contains chapters from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Values, Units, and Colors, youll receive a significant discount on the entire Definitive Guide when its released. Why wait when you can learn how to use units and other key CSS3 features right away?Use RGB or HSL values to mix your own colors, and designate the degree of opacityLearn how to apply global keywords introduced in CSS3Use string values to wrap a sequence of text characters in quotesDescribe margins, letter spacing, and other properties, with either fixed or relative length unitsUnderstand how number, integer, and percentage values differExplore CSS3 unit types for describing display resolutionUse time values for transitions and animations

Exactly how does the "cascade" in Cascading Style Sheets work? This concise guide demonstrates the power and simplicity of CSS selectors for applying style rules to different web page elements.