Whether you’re an intranet developer responsible for tens of thousands of pages, or a freelance Web designer operating on the cutting edge of technology, CSS 2 is an important tool for your toolbox. Designed specifically for those who have a clear understanding of HTML, this hands-on training tutorial will teach you how Cascading Style Sheets can be used to achieve a new level of fine-grain control over Web design. Learn how it’s possible to easily apply the same consistent look and feel to any number of pages using external style sheets. Learn how to control the layout of your pages down to the pixel, and then specify exactly how the fonts should be rendered. CSS2 Essential Training will even teach you how to create simple rollover effects that don’t require any programming.

Table of contents
Introduction
welcome
what is CSS?
what’s needed

Basics
web sites that use CSS
breakdown of a CSS rule
writing your first rule
the document tree
CSS in HTML documents

Incorporating CSS into HTML
class selectors
ID selectors
descendent selectors
grouping selectors
types of elements
the DIV tag
the SPAN tag

Color
the old HTML way
color in CSS
background colors

Layout
explaining the box model
border properties
margins
padding
element positioning
floats
the clear property
layered presentation
overflow
visibility

Background
background images
background repetition
background attachment
background position
the background shorthand property

Typography
font families
font styles
font weight
font size
text line height
font variants
the font shorthand property
indenting text
aligning text
text decoration
transforming text

Links
link basics
more on links
rollovers

Dealing with Bad Browsers
how to hide CSS from NN4.x
the broken MSIE5 box model
windows flicker with @import

Accessibility
CSS and different media
CSS for print

Troubleshooting
troubleshooting