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Doing it on your own pages

Changing CSS on the fly

Creating Your Own Color Scheme

Understanding hue, saturation, and value

Using the Color Scheme Designer

Selecting a base hue

Picking a color scheme

Book II: Chapter 2: Styling Text

Setting the Font Family

Applying the font-family style attribute

Using generic fonts

Making a list of fonts

The Curse of Web-Based Fonts

Understanding the problem

Examining possible solutions

Using images for headlines

Specifying the Font Size

Size is only a suggestion!

Using the font-size style attribute

Absolute measurement units

Relative measurement units

Determining Other Font Characteristics

Using font-style for italics

Using font-weight for bold

Using text-decoration

Using text-align for basic alignment

Other text attributes

Using the font shortcut

Working with subscripts and superscripts

Book II: Chapter 3: Selectors, Class, and Style

Selecting Particular Segments

Defining more than one kind of paragraph

Styling identified paragraphs

Using Emphasis and Strong Emphasis

Adding emphasis to the page

Modifying the display of em and strong

Defining Classes

Adding classes to the page

Combining classes

Introducing div and span

Organizing the page by meaning

Why not make a table?

Using Pseudo-Classes to Style Links

Styling a standard link

Styling the link states

Best link practices

Selecting in Context

Defining Multiple Styles at Once

Book II: Chapter 4: Borders and Backgrounds

Joining the Border Patrol

Using the border attributes

Defining border styles

Using the border shortcut

Creating partial borders

Introducing the Box Model

Borders, margin, and padding

Positioning elements with margins and padding

Changing the Background Image

Getting a background check

Solutions to the background conundrum

Manipulating Background Images

Turning off the repeat

Making effective gradients with repeat-x and repeat-y

Using Images in Lists

Book II: Chapter 5: Levels of CSS

Managing Levels of Style

Using local styles

Using an external style sheet

Understanding the Cascading Part of Cascading Style Sheets

Inheriting styles

Hierarchy of styles

Overriding styles

Precedence of style definitions

Using Conditional Comments

Coping with incompatibility

Making Internet Explorer–specific code

Using a conditional comment with CSS

Checking the Internet Explorer version

Book III: Using Positional CSS

Book III: Chapter 1: Fun with the Fabulous Float

Avoiding Old-School Layout Pitfalls

Problems with frames

Problems with tables

Problems with huge images

Problems with Flash

Introducing the Floating Layout Mechanism

Using float with images

Adding the float property

Using Float with Block-Level Elements

Floating a paragraph

Adjusting the width

Setting the next margin

Using Float to Style Forms

Using float to beautify the form

Adjusting the fieldset width

Using the clear attribute to control page layout

Book III: Chapter 2: Building Floating Page Layouts

Creating a Basic Two-Column Design

Designing the page

Building the XHTML

Adding preliminary CSS

Using temporary borders

Setting up the floating columns

Tuning up the borders

Advantages of a fluid layout

Building a Three-Column Design

Styling the three-column page

Problems with the floating layout

Specifying a min-height

Building a Fixed-Width Layout

Setting up the XHTML

Using an image to simulate true columns

Building a Centered Fixed-Width Layout

Making a surrogate body with an all div

How the jello layout works

Limitations of the jello layout

Book III: Chapter 3: Styling Lists and Menus

Revisiting List Styles

Defining navigation as a list of links

Turning links into buttons

Building horizontal lists

Creating Dynamic Lists

Building a nested list

Hiding the inner lists

Getting the inner lists to appear on cue

Building a Basic Menu System

Building a vertical menu with CSS

Building