Values, Units, and Colors by Eric A Meyer

Values, Units, and Colors by Eric A Meyer

Nearly everything you do with CSS involves units for determining the look and formatting of your web page elements. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to work with an array of units--including measurements and keywords--that help you define color, text, distance between elements, location of external files, and other values. This book contains chapters from the upcoming fourth edition of "CSS: The Definitive Guide." When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of "Values, Units, and Colors," you'll receive a significant discount on the entire Definitive Guide when it's released. Why wait when you can learn how to use units and other key CSS3 features right away?Use RGB or HSL values to mix your own colors, and designate the degree of opacity Learn how to apply global keywords introduced in CSS3 Use string values to wrap a sequence of text characters in quotes Describe margins, letter spacing, and other properties, with either fixed or relative length units Understand how number, integer, and percentage values differ Explore CSS3 unit types for describing display resolution Use time values for transitions and animations

Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993 and is a known specialist in HTML, CSS, and web standards around the world. Eric is the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting (www.complexspiral.com), which counts among its clients America Online, Apple Computer, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, and Macromedia, which called Eric a vital partner in our efforts to transform Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 into a groundbreaking tool for CSS-based design. Los Alamos National Laboratory, the New York Public Library, Cornell University, and the University of Northern Iowa are among the organizations to which he has given talks. Eric has also spoken at a number of conferences, including An Event Apart (which he cofounded), the IW3C2 WWW series, Web Design World, CMP, SXSW, the User Interface conference series, and The Other Dreamweaver Conference. In his spare time, Eric serves as List Chaperone of the extremely popular css-discuss mailing list (www.css-discuss.org). Eric resides in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a far nicer city than you might think. Eric Meyer's personal web page may be found at http: //www.meyerweb.com/eric. He was the host of -Your Father's Oldsmobile, - a Big Band-era radio show aired weekly on WRUW 91.1 FM in Cleveland for nine years.

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ISBN 13	9781449342517
ISBN 10	1449342515
Title	Values, Units, and Colors
Author	Eric A Meyer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	O'Reilly Media
Year published	2012-11-13
Number of pages	46
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