Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout (Paperback)

Smashing CSS takes you well beyond the basics, covering not only the finer points of layout and effects, but introduces you to the future with HTML5 and CSS3. Very few in the industry can show you the ins and outs of CSS like Eric Meyer and inside Smashing CSS Eric provides techniques that are thorough, utterly useful, and universally applicable in the real world. From choosing the right tools, to CSS effects and CSS3 techniques with jQuery, Smashing CSS is the practical guide to building modern web layouts.

With Smashing CSS you will learn how to:

• Throw elements offscreen/hide them
• Create body/HTML backgrounds in XHTML
• Usemore than 15 layout techniques including clearfix, two/three simple columns, faux columns, One True Layout, Holy Grail, em-based layout, fluid grids, sticky footers, and more
• Use a variety of CSS effects including CSS popups, boxpunching, rounded corners, CSS sprites, Sliding Doors, Liquid Bleach, ragged floats, and more
• Apply CSS table styling including using thead, tfoot, and tbody, row headers, column-oriented styling (classes); styling data tables with jQuery, tables to graphs, tables to maps; and more
• Use CSS3 elements including rounded corners, multiple backgrounds, RGBA, using jQuery to do CSS3 selections and so much more.

Eric Meyer is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards, and has been working on the Web since 1993. Smashing CSS is for developers who already have some experience with CSS and JavaScript and are ready for more advanced techniques.

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現代版面的專業技巧

《Smashing CSS》將帶您超越基礎知識，不僅涵蓋版面和效果的細節，還介紹了HTML5和CSS3的未來發展。在業界中，很少有人像Eric Meyer一樣能向您展示CSS的方方面面，而在《Smashing CSS》中，Eric提供了全面、非常實用且在現實世界中普遍適用的技巧。從選擇合適的工具到使用jQuery的CSS效果和CSS3技巧，《Smashing CSS》是構建現代網頁版面的實用指南。

通過《Smashing CSS》，您將學習如何：
- 將元素移出畫面/隱藏它們
- 在XHTML中創建body/HTML背景
- 使用超過15種版面技巧，包括clearfix、兩/三個簡單欄、假欄、One True Layout、Holy Grail、基於em的版面、流體網格、粘性底部等
- 使用各種CSS效果，包括CSS彈出窗口、boxpunching、圓角、CSS精靈、滑動門、液體漂白、不規則浮動等
- 應用CSS表格樣式，包括使用thead、tfoot和tbody、行標題、面向列的樣式（類別）；使用jQuery對數據表進行樣式設定，將表格轉換為圖表、地圖等
- 使用CSS3元素，包括圓角、多個背景、RGBA，使用jQuery進行CSS3選擇等等

Eric Meyer是國際公認的HTML、CSS和Web標準專家，從1993年開始從事Web工作。《Smashing CSS》適用於已具備一定CSS和JavaScript經驗，並準備學習更高級技巧的開發人員。

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