This document, "Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade" by Eric A. Meyer, published by O'Reilly Media in October 2012, is a guide designed for learning CSS selectors, specificity, and the cascade. It covers CSS3 selectors and delves into key topics such as style rule application, element inheritance, reader and browser preferences, and how to resolve conflicting style rules. The content is intended to help users create CSS rules for multiple elements, group rules for efficiency, understand style inheritance, and grasp the intricacies of specificity for resolving style conflicts.
This manual serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding the fundamental concepts of CSS styling. It aims to equip readers with the knowledge to analyze how preferences affect presentation, understand the interplay of specificity and inheritance, and master all CSS3 selectors. The guide is presented in an unencrypted EPUB format, comprising 86 pages, and is part of the upcoming fourth edition of "CSS: The Definitive Guide."
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. You’ll learn how your page’s presentation depends on a multitude of style rules and the complex ways they function—and sometimes collide—within the document’s structure.
This guide is a chapter from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade, you’ll receive a significant discount on the entire Definitive Guide when it’s released. Why wait when you can learn how to use selectors and other key CSS 3 features right away?
- Learn how to create CSS rules that apply to a large number of similar elements
- Group rules to make style sheets smaller and download times faster
- Understand how elements inherit styles from their parents
- Discover how reader and browser preferences affect your page presentation
- Examine specificity—the method browsers use to choose between two conflicting style rules
- Get a handle on how specificity and inheritance combine to form the cascade
- Get details on all of the CSS3 selectors
Author: Meyer, Eric A.
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade
Pages: 00086 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2012-10-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781449342494
Category: Computers : Web - Site Design
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. You’ll learn how your page’s presentation depends on a multitude of style rules and the complex ways they function—and sometimes collide—within the document’s structure.
This guide is a chapter from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade, you’ll receive a significant discount on the entire Definitive Guide when it’s released. Why wait when you can learn how to use selectors and other key CSS 3 features right away?
- Learn how to create CSS rules that apply to a large number of similar elements
- Group rules to make style sheets smaller and download times faster
- Understand how elements inherit styles from their parents
- Discover how reader and browser preferences affect your page presentation
- Examine specificity—the method browsers use to choose between two conflicting style rules
- Get a handle on how specificity and inheritance combine to form the cascade
- Get details on all of the CSS3 selectors
Author: Meyer, Eric A.
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade
Pages: 00086 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2012-10-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781449342494
Category: Computers : Web - Site Design
