CSS: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

If you’re 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.

Where To Order

oreilly.com (official publisher's catalog information with links to popular retail sites)

Changes from the Third Edition

Too many to list! At twice the length of the previous edition, every chapter has been revised and updated, and there are six entirely new chapters covering topics such as flexible box layout, grid layout, animations, blending, and more.

Table of Contents

  1. CSS and Documents
  2. Selectors
  3. Specificity and the Cascade
  4. Values and Units
  5. Fonts
  6. Text Properties
  7. Basic Visual Formatting
  8. Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins
  9. Colors, Backgrounds, and Gradients
  10. Floating and Shapes
  11. Positioning
  12. Flexible Box Layout
  13. Grid Layout
  14. Table Layout in CSS
  15. Lists and Generated Content
  16. Transforms
  17. Transitions
  18. Animation
  19. Blending, Filtering, Compositing, and Masking
  20. Media-Dependent Styles
  1. Animatable Properties
  2. Basic Property Reference
  3. Color Equivalence Table