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.

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Nearly everything you do with CSS involves units for determining the look and formatting of your web page elements. With this concise guide, you ll learn how to work with an array of units including measurements and keywords that help you define color, text, distance between elements, location of external files, and other values.

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The ability to apply margins, borders, and padding to any web page element is one of the things that sets CSS so far above traditional markup. With this practical guide, you will not only learn how to use these properties to lay out your document, but also how to change and control the appearance of any element on the page.

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While flowing text around images is certainly nothing new, with CSS you can float any element, from images to paragraphs to lists. In this practical guide, author Eric Meyer reveals some interesting--and surprising--ways to use CSS floats in your web design, including the latest capability to flow content past non-rectangular float shapes.

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Isn't table layout something web designers want to avoid? Yes, but rather than use tables for layout, this book is about the ways that tables themselves are laid out by CSS, a process more complicated than it appears. This concise guide takes you on a deep dive into the concepts necessary for understanding CSS and tables in your web layout, including table formatting, cell alignment, and table width.

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