Preface

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the three core languages of the web. The more you know about all three of them, the better off you'll be. Of these three, the role of CSS is as the presentation language of the web. It describes things such as the colors, fonts, and layout of your pages.

There are some basic prerequisites for this book. I expect you understand how to write HTML, and understand basic CSS including styling fonts, adding margins, padding and background colors, and other things, such as what a hexadecimal color code is. In the coming chapters, I'll cover some of the basic concepts such as the box model, display properties, and types of style sheet. I'll also touch on a small amount of JavaScript and jQuery. You don't need ...

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