INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: XHTML: GIVING STRUCTURE TO CONTENT
  1. Web Standards
    • Even Today, IDWIMIE
    • Content, Structure, and Presentation.
  2. The Times They Are A-Changing
    • The Way We Were...
    • The Future Just Happened
  3. XHTML and How to Write It
    • XHTML—The Rules
    • An XHTML Template
    • Marking Up Your Content
    • Document flow—Block and Inline Elements
    • Document Hierarchy: Meet the XHTML Family

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CHAPTER 2: HOW CSS WORKS
  1. The Three Ways to Style Your Document
    • Inline Styles
    • Embedded Styles
    • Linked Styles
  2. Anatomy of a CSS Rule
  3. Writing CSS Rules
  4. Targeting Tags Within the Document Hierarchy
    • Using Contextual Selectors
    • Working with Child Selectors
    • Adding Classes and IDs
    • Simple Use of a Class
    • Contextual Class Selectors
    • Multiple classes
    • Introducing IDs
    • The Difference Between IDs and Classes
    • Specialized selectors
    • The Star Selector
    • The Adjacent Sibling Selector
    • Attribute Selectors
    • Summary of Selectors
  5. Pseudo-Classes
    • Anchor Link Pseudo-Classes
    • Other Useful Pseudo-Classes
  6. Pseudo-elements
  7. Inheritance
  8. The Cascade
    • Sources of Styles
    • The Cascade Rules
  9. Rule Declarations
    • Numerical Values
    • Color Values

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CHAPTER 3: STYLIN’ FONTS AND TEXT
  1. Specifying Fonts in CSS
    • Introducing Font Collections
  2. Exploring Font Families
    • Using Embedded Styles (for Now)
    • Setting the Font Family for the Entire Page
  3. Sizing Fonts
    • Inherited Styles in Nested Tags
  4. Font Properties
    • Font-Style Property
    • Font-Weight Property
    • Font-Variant Property
    • The Font Property Shorthand
  5. Text Properties
    • Text-Indent Property
    • Letter-Spacing Property
    • Word-Spacing Property
    • Text-Decoration Property
    • Text-Align Property
    • Line-Height Property
    • Text-Transform Property
    • Vertical-Align Property
  6. Using Font and Text Styles

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CHAPTER 4: POSITIONING ELEMENTS
  1. Understanding the Box Model
    • The Box Border
    • The Box Padding
    • The Box Margins
    • Collapsing Margins
  2. How Big Is a Box?
    • Creating a single column with contained elements
  3. Floating and Clearing
    • The Float Property
    • The Clear Property
  4. The Position Property
    • Static Positioning
    • Relative Positioning
    • Absolute Positioning
    • Fixed Positioning
    • Positioning Context
  5. The Display Property
    • Positioning/Display Example

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CHAPTER 5: BASIC PAGE LAYOUT
  1. Some Multi-column Layouts
  2. Introducing Stylib—the Stylin’ Library
  3. Width Matters
  4. Floated Versus Absolutely-Positioned Layouts
  5. A Simple Two-Column Fixed-Width Layout
    • Know Your Inner Div
    • Prevent Unwanted Overflow
    • Freely Style Your Inner Divs
    • Styling the Text
  6. A Simple Two-Column Liquid Layout
    • Use a Little Constraint
  7. A Three-Column Fixed-Width Layout
  8. Three-Column Liquid Layout
    • Making All the Columns the Same Length
    • Faux Columns
    • Two-Column Liquid Layout With Faux Columns
    • Three-Column Liquid Layout With Faux Columns
    • Programmatically Extend Columns (And Round Their Corners!)
  9. An Absolutely-Positioned Layout

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CHAPTER 6: INTERFACE COMPONENTS
  1. Designing Tables
  2. Forms of Function
    • How Forms Work
    • Form Markup
  3. Form Styling
    • Tiny Sign-in Form
  4. Lists and Menus
  5. Lists
    • Styling Lists
    • Converting the List into a Menu
    • Basic Link Styling
  6. Creating CSS-Based Menus
    • A Drop-down Menu Tutorial
    • Creating the Drop-downs on the Menu

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