CSS Master

Table of Contents

Preface..................................................... xvii

Who Should Read This Book.................................. .xvii

Conventions Used........................................... xviii

Code Samples.......................................... .xviii

Tips, Notes, and Warnings................................. .xix

Supplementary Materials..................................... .xix

Want to take your learning further?............................. .xx

Chapter 1 Selectors..................................... 1

Combinators.................................................. 2

The Descendant Combinator................................. 5

The Child Combinator...................................... 7

The Adjacent Sibling Combinator............................. 8

The General Sibling Combinator............................. 10

Attribute Selectors............................................ 12

Matching Attribute Presence............................... 13

Matching Hyphenated Attribute Values...................... 14

Matching Attribute Values by Substring...................... 17

Pseudo-classes versus Pseudo-elements.......................... 19

Pseudo-elements............................................. 19

::before and ::after.................................. 20

Creating Typographic Effects with ::first-letter.......... 23

Creating Typographic Effects with ::first-line............ 31

User Interface Fun with ::selection...................... 35

Pseudo-classes............................................... 38

Highlighting Page Fragments with :target.................. 38

Negating Selectors with :not()............................ 42