CSS Floating

Book Description:

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.
Short and sweet, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of CSS Floating, you’ll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guideonce it’s released. Why wait? Learn how to bring life to your web pages now.

• Learn the characteristics of floated elements, and CSS rules for using them
• Be aware of certain rule exceptions when applying floats to your design, including the use of negative margins
• Use the clear property to prevent floats from affecting elements in the next section of the document
• Create floating boxes in non-rectangular shapes, including rounded corners, circles, ellipses, and even polygons
• Define float shapes with transparent or opaque images

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Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins in CSS

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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.

Short and sweet, this short book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins in CSS, you’ll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it’s released. Why wait? Learn how to bring life to your web pages now.

• Understand the CSS box model, including the way different properties relate to one another
• Use tricks for defining padding values, including inline element padding
• Explore border width, style, and color, plus the use of border images
• Learn how to use outlines: presentational elements that won’t affect layout
• Dive into the use of margins, including the way top and bottom margins collapse

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HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World, 2 Edition

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HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World is your perfect introduction to the latest generation of web technologies. This easy-to-follow guide covers everything you need to know to get started today. You’ll master the semantic markup available in HTML5, as well as how to use CSS3 to create amazing-looking websites without resorting to complex workarounds.

You’ll learn how to:

• Lose that pesky Flash habit by embracing native HTML5 video
• Set type that truly supports your message
• Build intelligent web forms that users will love!
• Design modern web apps the shine on mobile devices
• Create dynamic, efficient graphics on the fly with SVG and canvas
• Use shiny new APIs to add geolocation and offline functionality
• Build your own full featured HTML5 website, the HTML5 Herald

This easy-to-follow guide is illustrated with lots of examples, and leads readers through the process of creating great websites from start to finish using HTML5 and CSS3.

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Colors, Backgrounds, and Gradients

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One advantage of using CSS3 is that you can apply colors and backgrounds to any element in a web document, create your own gradients, and even apply multiple backgrounds to the same element. This practical guide shows you many ways to use colors, backgrounds, and gradients to achieve some pretty awesome effects.

Short and sweet, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Colors, Backgrounds, and Gradients, you’ll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it’s released. Why wait? Learn how to bring life to your web pages now.

Define foreground colors for a border or element with the color property
Combine foreground and background colors to create interesting effects
Position and repeat one or more images in an element’s background
Fix an image to a screen’s viewing area, rather than to the element that contains it
Use color stops to define vertical, horizontal, and diagonal linear gradients
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HTML5 and CSS3, 2nd Edition

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HTML5 and CSS3 are more than just buzzwords – they’re the foundation for today’s web applications. This book gets you up to speed on the HTML5 elements and CSS3 features you can use right now in your current projects, with backwards compatible solutions that ensure that you don’t leave users of older browsers behind. This new edition covers even more new features, including CSS animations, IndexedDB, and client-side validations.

HTML5 and CSS3 power today’s web applications, with semantic markup, better forms, native multimedia, animations, and powerful APIs. You’ll get hands-on with all the new features with practical example projects, and find what you need quickly with this book’s modular structure. “Falling Back” sections show you how to create solutions for older browsers, and “The Future” sections at the end of each chapter get you excited about the possibilities when features mature.

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Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

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Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript shows the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides all the information you’ll need to understand the concepts behind designing and developing for the Web, as well as the best means to deliver professional results based on best practices.
Of course, there is far more to building a successful website than knowing a little Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The process starts long before any coding takes place, and this book introduces you to the agile development process, explaining why this method makes so much sense for web projects and how best to implement it. We also make sure you’re up to date by using the latest HTML5 features. Planning is vital, so you’ll also learn to use techniques such as brainstorming, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to get your project off to the best possible start and help ensure smooth progress as it develops.

An understanding of correct, semantic markup is essential for any web professional; this book explains how HTML5 should be used to structure content so that the markup adheres to current web standards. You’ll learn about the wide range of HTML5 elements available to you, and you’ll learn how and when to use them through building example web pages.

Without creative use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), websites would all look largely the same. CSS enables you to set your website apart from the rest, while maintaining the integrity of your markup. We’ll showcase the new features of CSS3 and how you can use them. You’ll learn how CSS3 works and how to apply styles to your pages, allowing you to realize your design ideas in the browser.

JavaScript can be used to make your website easier and more interesting to use. This book provides information on appropriate uses of this technology and introduces the concepts of JavaScript programming. You’ll also see how JavaScript works as part of the much-hyped technique Ajax, and in turn, where Ajax fits into the wider Web 2.0 picture.

While a website is being built, it needs to be tested across multiple browsers and platforms to ensure that the site works for all users, regardless of ability or disability, and this book explains how best to accomplish these tasks. Then, it discusses the process of launching and maintaining the site so that it will continue to work for all its users throughout its life cycle.

Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript concludes by covering server-side technologies, acting as a guide to the different options available. With insights from renowned experts such as Jason Fried of 37signals, Daniel Burka of Digg and Pownce, and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript provides invaluable information applicable to every web project―regardless of size, scope, or budget.

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Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript

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Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript covers everything that you need to know to create dynamic scripted animation using the HTML5 canvas. It provides information on all the relevant math you’ll need, before moving on to physics concepts like acceleration, velocity, easing, springs, collision detection, conservation of momentum, 3D, and forward and inverse kinematics. Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript is a fantastic resource for all web developers working in HTML5 or switching over from Flash to create standards-compliant games, applications, and animations that will work across all modern browsers and most mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, and Android devices.

You will learn how to utilize the amazing animation and physics-based code originally created by author Keith Peters in his hugely successful Foundation ActionScript Animation in all of your HTML5 applications. In no time at all, you’ll understand the concepts behind scripted animation and also have the ability to create all manner of exciting animations and games.

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HTML5 For Dummies Quick Reference

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Essential information about using HTML5: everything you need at your fingertips

HTML is the predominant programming language used to create Web pages. HTML5 has enhanced rich media, geolocation, database and mobile capabilities, and is now able to script APIs, making it a must-have for Web developers. This convenient reference, comb-bound to lie flat, makes it easy to find the information you need in a hurry so you can get those terrific Web pages designed and online right now.

• HTML is used extensively in creating Web pages, especially for mobile browsers; HTML5 offers exciting enhancements that Web developers are eager to master
• Features a handy format that provides essential information in a quick and simple manner, with easy-to-follow instructions, smaller size, and convenient, lay-flat binding
• Covers using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript The basic information you need to develop eye-popping Web sites with HTML5 are easy to find in HTML5 For Dummies Quick Reference.

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Introducing HTML5, 2nd Edition

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HTML5 continues to evolve, browsers are implementating at break-neck speed and HTML5 web sites spring up like flowers after rain. More than ever, you need to get acquainted with the powerful new possibilities in web and application design. That’s why we’ve crafted a second edition of this book to help you stay on top of current developments.

This book shows you how to start adapting the language now to realize its benefits on today’s browsers. It concentrates on the practical—the problems HTML5 can solve for you right away. By following the book’s hands-on HTML5 code examples you’ll learn about:

– new semantics and structures to help your site become richer and more accessible
– applying the most important JavaScript APIs that are already implemented
– using and controlling native multimedia
– how to build more intelligent web forms
– implementing new storage options and web databases, including both WebSQL and IndexedDB
– how geolocation works with HTML5 in both web and mobile applications

And this new edition adds:
– even more detail on canvas, geolocation and offline storage options
– a peek around the corner for audio and video’s new element, subtitling formats, in-browser web conference
– browser history controls to make applications more usable and bookmarkable
– ways to use HTML5 now in older browsers

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Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone

Book Description:

Discover the Easier, Faster Way to Build High-Quality iPhone Applications

Now, you don’t need to dive headfirst into Objective-C to write state-of-the-art applications for the iPhone. You can use web development tools and technologies you already know: JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. In this book, long-time web and mobile application developer Lee S. Barney shows you how to use the QuickConnect and PhoneGap frameworks to create secure, high-quality, modular hybrid iPhone applications.

Lee S. Barney walks you through the entire hybrid iPhone development process, from creating great user interfaces to compiling, deploying, and executing applications. Along the way, he introduces techniques and sample code designed to streamline development, eliminate complexity, optimize performance, and leverage all iPhone’s native capabilities—from its accelerometer and GPS to its built-in database. Coverage includes

• Using Dashcode and Xcode together to create unique, exciting hybrid iPhone applications
• Using the QuickConnect JavaScript API to perform tasks ranging from vibrating the phone to accessing the accelerometer and GPS location data
• Accessing native iPhone functionality using the PhoneGap JavaScript API
• Storing, retrieving, and managing data on the iPhone, even without network access
• Using XMLHttpRequest to access or synchronize remote data and use web services
• Creating Google-based maps for your own app that work like those you see in the iPhone’s Maps application

This book systematically lowers the barriers to iPhone development, enabling web developers to build any iPhone application they can imagine without long development cycles or steep learning curves!

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Getting Started with CSS

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Knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is essential for developing modern, attractive websites, but many beginners are put off by the need to learn about unfamiliar concepts, such as selectors, properties, and classes, before they can achieve anything. Getting StartED with CSS takes a practical approach by showing you how to use CSS in simple stages, starting by changing the default appearance of HTML tags to improve the look of text and links. It assumes no prior knowledge of CSS and avoids bombarding you with unnecessary technical details. At the same time, it explains all the main points and acts as a reference that you can come back to when you need to refresh your memory. More advanced concepts are introduced gradually, so that by the end of the book you’ll have a solid understanding of all the main aspects of CSS. Particular attention is paid to avoiding the common pitfalls of beginners, enabling you to create websites that not only look good, but also are easy to maintain.

• Requires no previous knowledge of CSS
• Instant results―starts off by showing how improve the look of a website stage by stage
• Doesn’t bombard you with endless rules and jargon

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Stunning CSS3

Book Description:

CSS3 adds powerful new functionality to the web’s visual style language to help you create beautiful and engaging designs more easily than ever. With CSS3, you can create eye-catching visual effects such as semitransparent backgrounds, gradients, and drop shadows without using images; display text in beautiful, unique, non-web-safe fonts; create animations without Flash; and customize a design to the user’s unique device or screen size without JavaScript.
You’ll learn how to accomplish these effects and more by working through a series of practical yet cutting-edge projects. Each chapter walks you through standalone exercises that you can integrate into projects you’re working on, or use as inspiration. You’ll learn all of the most popular, useful, and well-supported CSS3 techniques, plus:

• How to use CSS3 to enhance your pages, not just in terms of looks, but also in terms of usability, accessibility, and efficiency

• When and how to provide workarounds and fallbacks for older, non-supporting browsers

• How to create stunning designs with unique typography and beautiful graphic details

• Advanced new selectors to streamline your markup and make it less prone to human errors

• New methods for creating multiple-column layouts

• How to quickly and easily create mobile-optimized web designs without using scripting

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Teach Yourself VISUALLY HTML and CSS

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Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something – and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you’ll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 175 tasks involving HTML and CSS. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running with HTML and CSS in no time.

You’ll learn to:

• View HTML code in a browser
• Add and format text
• Prepare images for the Web
• Insert links to other pages
• Control layout with style sheets
• Add JavaScript to a Web page
• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

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Smashing CSS

Book Description:

PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR MODERN LAYOUT
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.

Smashing Magazine (smashingmagazine.com) is one of the world’s most popular web design sites. True to the Smashing mission, the Smashing Magazine book series delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers.

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Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

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What people are saying about Building iPhone Apps w/ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
“The future of mobile development is clearly web technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Jonathan Stark shows you how to leverage your existing web development skills to build native iPhone applications using these technologies.”
–John Allsopp, author and founder of Web Directions
“Jonathan’s book is the most comprehensive documentation available for developing web applications for mobile Safari. Not just great tech coverage, this book is an easy read of purely fascinating mobile tidbits in a fun colloquial style. Must have for all PhoneGap developers.”
— Brian LeRoux, Nitobi Software
It’s a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you’ll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.
Device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and this book shows you how to create one product for several platforms. You’ll find guidelines for converting your product into a native iPhone app using the free PhoneGap framework. And you’ll learn why releasing your product as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than if you went straight to the App Store with a product built with Apple’s tools.

• Build iPhone apps with tools you already know how to use
• Learn how to make an existing website look and behave like an iPhone app
• Add native-looking animations to your web app using jQTouch
• Take advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even when the iPhone is offline
• Hook into advanced iPhone features — including the accelerometer, geolocation, and vibration — with JavaScript
• Submit your applications to the App Store with Xcode

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HTML, CSS & JavaScript Web Publishing in One Hour a Day, Sams Teach Yourself, 7th Edition

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Thoroughly revised and updated with examples rewritten to conform to HTML5, CSS3, and contemporary web development practices, this easy-to-understand, step-by-step tutorial helps you quickly master the basics of HTML and CSS before moving on to more advanced topics such as graphics, video, and interactivity with JavaScript and jQuery.

In just one hour a day, you’ll learn the skills you need to design, create, and maintain a professional-looking website.

• No previous experience required. By following each short, one-hour lesson in this book, anyone can learn the basics of web development.
• Learn at your own pace. You can work through each lesson sequentially to make sure you thoroughly understand all the concepts and methodologies, or you can focus on specific lessons to learn the techniques that interest you most.
• Test your knowledge. Each lesson ends with a Workshop section filled with questions, answers, and exercises for further study.

Learn how to…

• Fully implement the HTML5 and CSS3 standards
• Work with text and create links
• Add images and graphics to your page
• Use CSS to style a site and position elements on a page
• Structure a page with HTML5
• Use responsive web design to make your pages look good on different-sized screens
• Use JavaScript to add dynamic elements and interactivity on your pages
• Leverage jQuery to add JavaScript features to your pages
• Design for the mobile web
• Get your site online and let people know it’s there
• Optimize your site for search engines

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