O Reilly Media imprint: 1651 books
by Robert J. Glushko
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Note about this ebook: This ebook exploits many advanced capabilities with images, hypertext, and interactivity and is optimized for EPUB3-compliant book readers, especially Apple's iBooks and browser plugins. These features may not work on all ebook readers.We organize things. We organize...
Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade
Applying CSS3 to Documents
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Exactly how does the "cascade" in Cascading Style Sheets work? This concise guide demonstrates the power and simplicity of CSS selectors for applying style rules to different web page elements. You’ll learn how your page’s presentation depends on a multitude of style rules and the complex...
CSS Text
Styling Your Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
As a web designer, you probably spend more time working with text than any other element. With this concise guide, you’ll learn CSS3 properties for changing the appearance of text without altering the font face—including horizontal and vertical alignment, text transformation, word and letter spacing,...
Values, Units, and Colors
Foundational CSS3 Components
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
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...
CSS Pocket Reference
Visual Presentation for the Web
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When you’re working with CSS and need an answer now, this concise yet comprehensive quick reference provides the essential information you need. Revised and updated for CSS3, this fifth edition is ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers.
You’ll find a short introduction...
CSS Fonts
Web Typography Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
From custom fonts to ad-hoc font families you assemble out of a variety of individual faces, CSS 3 gives you more typographic options than ever before. This concise guide shows you how to use CSS properties to gain a fine-grained and wide-ranging influence over how you display fonts on the Web.
Short...
Basic Visual Formatting in CSS
Layout Fundamentals in CSS
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Some aspects of the CSS formatting model may seem counterintuitive at first, but as you’ll learn in this practical guide, the more you work with these features, the more they make sense. Author Eric Meyer gives you a good grounding in CSS visual rendering, from element box rules and concepts to...
CSS Floating
Floats and Float Shapes
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
While flowing text around images is certainly nothing new, with CSS you can float any element, from images to paragraphs to lists. In this practical guide, author Eric Meyer reveals some interesting—and surprising—ways to use CSS floats in your web design, including the latest capability to flow...
Table Layout in CSS
CSS Table Rendering in Detail
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Isn’t table layout something web designers want to avoid? Yes, but rather than use tables for layout, this book is about the ways that tables themselves are laid out by CSS, a process more complicated than it appears. This concise guide takes you on a deep dive into the concepts necessary for understanding...
Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins in CSS
CSS Box Model Details
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
The ability to apply margins, borders, and padding to any web page element is one of the things that sets CSS so far above traditional markup. With this practical guide, you will not only learn how to use these properties to lay out your document, but also how to change and control the appearance...
by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Head First C# is a complete learning experience for object-oriented programming, C#, and the Visual Studio IDE. Built for your brain, this book covers C# 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008, and teaches everything from language fundamentals to advanced topics including garbage collection, extension methods,...
UML 2.0 Pocket Reference
UML Syntax and Usage
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Globe-trotting travelers have long resorted to handy, pocket-size dictionaries as an aid to communicating across the language barrier. Dan Pilone's UML 2.0 Pocket Reference is just such an aid for on-the-go developers who need to converse in the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Use this book to decipher...
Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps
A Guide to the Windows Runtime
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Get a head start on building apps for Windows 8. With a series of examples, this hands-on guide takes you through the process of creating complete touch-enabled apps that respond to native sensors. Through the course of the book, you’ll learn how to work with the Windows Runtime application model...
Coding4Fun
10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
How would you like to build an Xbox game, use your Nintendo Wiimote to create an electronic whiteboard, or build your own peer-to-peer application? Coding4Fun helps you tackle some cool software and hardware projects using a range of languages and free Microsoft software. Now you can code for fun...