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CSS3 is the technology behind most of the eye-catching visuals on the Web today, but the official documentation can be dry and hard to follow. Luckily, The Book of CSS3 distills the heady technical language of the CSS3 specification into plain English, so you can get started on your next project right away. With real-world examples and a focus on results, The Book of CSS3 shows you how to transform ordinary text into stunning, richly detailed web pages fit for any browser. Youll master the latest cutting-edge CSS features, like multi-column layouts, borders and box effects, and new color and opacity settings. Youll also learn how to: Stylize text with fully customizable outlines, drop shadows, and other effects Create, position, and resize unlimited background images on the fly Spice up static web pages with event-driven transitions and animations Apply 2D and 3D transformations to text and images Use linear and radial gradients to create smooth color transitions Tailor a websites appearance to smartphones and other devices From the simplest blog layout to the most feature-rich web portal, The Book of CSS3 puts the whole wide world of web design at your fingertips. The future of web design is nowwhat will you create with it? 5 Reasons to Start Using CSS3 from the Author Device-responsive pages The big growth area of web browsing is on smartphone and tablet devices such as Android, iPhone and iPad. New media features and page layout modules in CSS3 let you make pages which respond to the capabilities of the device thats viewing them, automatically optimizing your content for multiple screen sizes and giving your visitors a tailored experience. Eye candy! CSS3 brings web documents to life without complicated JavaScript. Rotate, scale and skew page elements in both two and three dimensions, add smooth transitional animations to elements when their values change, and go even further with keyframe animations which give you fine control over the behavior of your page elements. A better reading experience The web was made for reading text, but for years weve had to use a handful of fonts in a very conservative way. CSS3 brings the power to use any font you wish, to decorate the text with drop shadows and outlining, plus new ways of laying out the text such as in multiple columns, like a newspaper or magazine. Easier to maintain Using CSS2.1 usually means adding images (and extra markup) to your documents in order to achieve what should be simple effects. Something as basic as adding rounded corners to an element can mean using up to four extra empty elements to accommodate the graphics required to fake the appearance. CSS3 was created to address just these problems, so you can add rounded corners, drop shadows, gradient backgrounds and much more without writing unnecessary markup or creating multiple image files -- meaning a lot less work to make and maintain your documents. Cleaner code The greatly expanded range of selectors in CSS3 means you can add special formatting to links depending on their destination, loop through long tables and lists, even select form elements depending on their current state -- all without having to clutter your code with surplus class attributes.

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The Book of CSS3
Peter Gasston

Copyright 2011

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher.

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The information in this book is distributed on an As Is basis, without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author nor No Starch Press, Inc. shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in it.

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Dedication

To my wife, Ana, for her patience and support

Foreword

CSS3 used to be a topic for people who were in it for the long haul. Back in 2006, I started CSS3.info, and Peter joined me in writing posts about the development of the standard and real-life examples of what it looked like in browsers. Although I started the site, Peter was always the most prolific writer, and its only fitting that while I wrote this foreword, he wrote the book.

CSS3 has finally gone mainstream. With the new age of browsers (such as Firefox 4, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 9), we as a web design community are finally getting the power and flexibility weve been waiting for. We can now manage media queries for different browsers, have smarter background images, and handle fonts in a way that doesnt drive us nuts.

If you plan on using CSS3, this book is the most hands-on guide youll find. It shows you what works and what doesnt, and no caveat is forgotten. Peter even provides a clear explanation for how transitions and transformations work. This is no small feat; as youll see for yourself when reading those chapters, the matrix functions are not for every user. Luckily you wont have to use those when youre taking advantage of the otherfar more accessiblefunctions in CSS3.

More is to come: CSS3 is an ever-expanding standard that promises to help web designers do great things. I, for one, am very curious about where it will lead us. For now, though, this book is all you need to start uncovering the treasures within CSS3.

Joost de Valk

CEO and Founder, Yoast.com

Preface

This book is the culmination of five years writing about CSS3, both on the Web and in print. The browser and CSS landscape has changed a lot in that short time and continues to change today, bringing new features and implementations at a rate thats difficult to keep up with. The CSS3 specification is written in (often dense) technical language thats intended for implementers rather than end users, and my intent in writing this book was to bridge the gap between specification and web developer.

I wrote about the CSS properties in the earlier chapters of this book with certainty, because theyre well implemented and used on a daily basis. As I progressed through the book, I was able to learn more from experimentation and the work of pioneers and early adopters. By the final few chapters I had to rely on interpretation of the CSS3 specification to explain how future properties will behave. I would hope that there are few mistakes, but I accept that any that exist are based on my own misunderstanding.

In addition to the CSS3 specification itself, an invaluable resource was the Mozilla Developer Network (https://developer.mozilla.org/), a peerless collection of articles about anything web relatednot least CSSwhich is all the more amazing for being written by volunteers. The text used in many of the code examples is taken from books in the public domain which are available at http://www.gutenberg.org/. All images in the book that are not my own creations are credited in the relevant chapters.

This book would not have been possible without the guidance of the team at No Starch Press, especially Serena Yang and my editor, Keith Fancher, who made me write more clearly and helped me transition from blogger to author. Id also like to thank Joost de Valk, who not only acted as my technical editor but also gave me my first opportunity to write about CSS3 when he created the website http://www.css3.info/ five years ago.

Id also like to thank my colleagues at Preloaded and Poke for their support and encouragement, everyone at the many London web community meet-ups, my mum for teaching me the value of hard work, and my dad for buying me my first computer some almost thirty years agoI promised Id pay him back one day, and hopefully this book will go some way toward that debt.

Introduction
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Let me tell you a little about who I think you are: Youre a web professional whos been hand-coding HTML and CSS for a few years; youre pretty comfortable with creating complex layouts, and you know not only your div from your span but also your bold from your strong; youve read a little about CSS3 and may even have started experimenting with some of its more decorative features like rounded corners, but you want to gain a deeper understanding of the fundamentals.

The Book of CSS3 helps you leverage the excellent knowledge you have of CSS2.1 in order to make learning CSS3 easier. I wont explain the fundamentals of CSS (except for the occasional reminder) as I assume you know them already. I wont talk you through step-by-step demonstrations of using CSS to make a listed navigation or an image gallery because I assume you can apply the examples in this book to anything you want to build on your own.

What I aim to do with this book is introduce you to what you can do with CSS3 now and what youll be able to do with it in the future. I want to take the dense technical language of the CSS3 specification and translate it into language thats plain and practical.

In short, I want to give you some new tools for your toolkit and let you make cool stuff with them.

The Scope of This Book

CSS can be used across many types of media; almost any device thats capable of displaying HTML or XML can also display CSS rules, albeit in a limited form sometimes. CSS3 has two modules devoted exclusively to paged media, such as PDF or printed materials, and also supports braille, handheld mobile devices (i.e., cellphones rather than smartphones), teletypes, and televisions. The range and breadth of possibilities is so vast that I cant cover them all.

What this book focuses on is CSS for the computer screen. All of the demonstrations were written for (and tested in) the most common desktop browsers, and theyre optimized for users of desktop and laptop computers. Although many of the new features in this book will still work if youre developing for other devicesespecially smartphones and tabletsI make no guarantees or assurances that everything will display exactly as shown in the examples contained herein.

A Quick Note About Browsers and Platforms

I wrote the majority of this bookand, therefore, the majority of the demonstrations and exampleson a computer running Ubuntu 10.04 with Firefox, Chrome, and Opera installed. Other portions were written on a MacBook Pro with Safari installed. Tests for Internet Explorer were performed using Windows 7. (The exact versions of all of the browsers used can be found in the introduction to .)

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