HTML and CSS -- The Web's Fall from Grace -- CSS to the Rescue -- Limitations of CSS -- Bringing CSS and HTML Together -- Selectors and Structure -- Basic Rules -- Grouping -- Class and ID Selectors -- Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements -- Structure -- Inheritance -- Specificity -- The Cascade -- Classification of Elements -- Units and Values -- Colors -- Length Units -- Percentage Values -- URLs -- CSS2 Units -- Text Properties -- Manipulating Text -- Fonts -- Font Families -- Font Weights -- Font Size -- Styles and Variants -- Using Shorthand: The font Property -- Font Matching -- Colors and Backgrounds -- Colors -- Complex Backgrounds -- Boxes and Borders -- Basic Element Boxes -- Margins or Padding? -- Margins -- Borders -- Padding -- Floating and Clearing -- Lists -- Visual Formatting -- Basic Boxes -- Block-Level Elements -- Floated Elements -- Inline Elements -- Positioning -- General Concepts -- Relative Positioning -- Absolute Positioning -- Fixed Positioning -- Stacking Positioned Elements -- CSS2: A Look Ahead -- Changes from CSS1 -- CSS2 Selectors -- Fonts and Text -- Generated Content -- Adapting to the Environment -- Borders -- Media Types and @-rules -- CSS in Action -- Conversion Projects.

CSS is the HTML 4.0-approved method for controlling visual presentation on Web pages. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide offers a complete, detailed review of CSS1 properties and other aspects of CSS1. Each property will be explored individually in detail with discussion of how each interacts with other properties. It also provides information on how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation. This book is the first major title to cover CSS in a way that acknowledges and describes current browser support, instead of simply describing the way things work in theory.