Introduction

1. Getting Started
   
   Understanding Why You Need This Book
   What is CSS?
   Why Use CSS?
   Authoring CSS
   
2. Understanding CSS
   
   Reviewing XTHML Basics
   Understanding CSS Terminology
   Exercise 1: Adding Rules to a Style Sheet
   Exercise 2: Adding Selectors
   Exercise 3: Working with Multiple Declarations
   Working with Style Sheets
   Exercise 4: Embedding a Style Sheet
   Exercise 5: Importing an External Style Sheet
   Exercise 6: Importing Multiple Style Sheets
   Exercise 7: Linking to an External Style Sheet
   Managing Style Sheets
   
3. Selectors and the Cascade
   
   Understanding Selectors
   Exercise 1: Using ID Selectors
   Exercise 2: Using Class Selectors
   Exercise 3: Using Grouped Selectors
   Exercise 4: Using Descendant Selectors
   Looking for the Sources of Styles
   Exercise 5: Resolving Style Conflicts with Specificity
   Exercise 6: Using the !important Declaration
   Exercise 7: Understanding Inheritance
   Exercise 8: Revealing Unstyled Documents
   Exercise 9: Applying User Style Sheets
   
4. Using CSS to Affect Page Layout
   
   Exercise 1: Introducing the CSS Box Model
   Exercise 2: Creating Simple Floats
   Exercise 3: Using Floats for Page Layout
   Exercise 4: Fixing Column Drop
   Exercise 5: Clearing Essentials
   Exercise 6: Containing Floats
   Exercise 7: Displaying Elements
   
5. Setting Foreground and Background Properties
   
   Exercise 1: Adding Foreground Colors
   Exercise 2: Adding Color to Background Elements
   Exercise 3: Adding Background Images
   Exercise 4: Repeating Background Images
   Exercise 5: Positioning Background Images
   Exercise 6: Using the Background Shorthand Declaration
   
6. Setting Typography
   
   Exercise 1: Altering Line Height
   Exercise 2: Using Font Families
   Exercise 3: Changing Font Styles and Weights
   Exercise 4: Sizing Fonts
   Exercise 5: Writing Font Shorthand Declarations
   Exercise 6: Aligning Text Horizontally
   Exercise 7: Aligning Text Vertically
   Exercise 8: Transforming Text
   Exercise 9: Decorating Text
   
7. Using Margins and Borders to Create Whitespace and Separation
   
   Exercise 1: Understanding Margins
   Exercise 2: Adding Borders
   Exercise 3: Implementing Padding
   Exercise 4: Using Negative Margins
   Exercise 5: Collapsing Margins
   
8. Styling Tables
   
   Exercise 1: Styling Tables and Captions
   Exercise 2: Styling Table Cells
   Exercise 3: Styling Column Classes
   Exercise 4: Styling Links in Table Cells
   
9. Styling for Print
   
   Exercise 1: Styling for Specific Mediums
   Exercise 2: Creating a Print Style Sheet
   Exercise 3: Hiding Elements for Print
   Exercise 4: Styling for Print
   Exercise 5: Applying Complex Styling for Print
   Exercise 6: Creating a Footer
   
10. Bringing It All Together
    
    Working with Text Fragments
    Exercise 1: Setting Global Styles
    Exercise 2: Defining Masthead and Navbar Colors
    Exercise 3: Laying Out the Navbar
    Exercise 4: Using Columns
    Exercise 5: Setting Content Styles
    Exercise 6: Starting the Sidebar
    Exercise 7: Creating the Sidebar Boxes
    Exercise 8: Completing the Sidebar
    Exercise 9: Styling the Table
    Exercise 10: Creating the Footer
    

Index