Css: The Definitive Guide Av Eric Meyer, Estelle Weyl

If you're a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and less time and effort expended, this book is for you. This revised fifth edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications. 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.We read the specs so you don't have to!This guide covers:Selectors, specificity, and the cascade, including information on the new cascade layersNew and old CSS values and units, including CSS variables and ways to size based on viewportsDetails on font technology and ways to use any available font variantsText styling, from basic decoration to changing the entire writing modePadding, borders, outlines, and margins, now discussed in terms of the new block- and inline-direction layout paradigm used by modern browsersColors, backgrounds, and gradients, including the conic gradientsAccessible data tablesFlexible box and grid layout systems, including new subgrid capabilities2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and animationFilters, blending, clipping, and maskingMedia, feature, and container queries