Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, Third Edition

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Closing Comments

In this final chapter of the book, I will give a brief summary of what I hope you have learned, as well as my thoughts on the future of CSS.

CSS SUMMARY

CSS is a key technology for developing websites, the language by which you apply styles to pages to make them more attractive and usable. Without CSS, the Web would be a less beautiful place!

We've covered a lot of CSS in this book, and I hope you now have a firm grounding in the basics, as well as a few advanced tricks in your toolbox.

You should now know:

• What Cascading Style Sheets are, and the benefits to using them (Chapter 1)
• The parts that make up CSS, and how to add style sheets to web pages (Chapter 2)
• How to target elements for styling in HTML with CSS (Chapter 3)
• What the C in CSS stands for, and how to determine which of conflicting rules will apply (Chapter 4)
• How to style text, determining the font and size, and modifying text in many other ways (Chapters 5 and 6)
• How to apply background colors and images to web pages (Chapter 7 and Appendix D)
• The principles of the box model, and how to use margins, padding and borders to create the basics of a layout (Chapter 8)
• How to create more complex layouts by floating content (Chapter 9)
• The ways that HTML lists can be styled, and used to create navigation for a website (Chapter 10)
• Further ways to create layouts by positioning content relative to HTML elements or the browser viewport, and how to layer content (Chapter 11)
• How to style HTML tables, controlling ...