The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design is a special book—it will tell you all you need to know to design great web sites that are standards compliant, usable, and look great, but not overwhelm you with waffle, theory, and obscure details.

The subject of this book is, as you might have guessed by the cover, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). There are two "levels" to CSS; these are referred to as CSS1 and CSS2. The difference between the two is that CSS2 is all of CSS1, plus a lot more. This book attempts to cover all of CSS1, and CSS positioning, which is a part of CSS2. The rest of CSS2 is excluded because, at the time of this writing, nobody had implemented most of it. Rather than cover a lot of theoretical territory, we chose to stick to what was currently usable.

CSS Tutorial - Table of contents

* Introduction
A brief introduction to the tutorial and what you can expect to learn.
* Lesson 1: What is CSS?
A little on why CSS came in to the world, and why it is clever to choose CSS over HTML for layout and design.
* Lesson 2: How does CSS work?
Learn the basic syntax of CSS and have to create your first stylesheet.
* Lesson 3: Colors and backgrounds
Learn how to apply colors and background colors to your website and how to use background images.
* Lesson 4: Fonts

Tutorial 1. Floating an image to the right

Float an image to the right of a block of text and apply a border to the image.

* Step 1 - Start with a paragraph of text and an image
* Step 2 - Apply float: right to the image
* Step 3 - Add margin
* Step 4 - Add a border
* Step 5 - Add padding
* All steps combined

Tutorial 2. Floating an image and caption

Float an image and caption to the right of a block of text and apply borders using Descendant Selectors.

Table of Contents:-

Chapter 1 - Style Sheet Basic

Chapter 2 - Selector

Chapter 3 - Cascading

Chapter 4 - Font Properties

Chapter 5 - Text Properties

Chapter 6 - List Properties

Chapter 7 - Color & Background

Chapter 8 - Box Properties

Chapter 9 - Table Properties

Chapter 10 - Position & Format

Chapter 11 - Other Properties

When Cascading Style Sheets were introduced in late 1996, they represented an exciting new opportunity. They enabled much more sophisticated page design (typography and layout) than web developers had been used to, and they helped manage the complex tasks of developing and maintaining sites, and keeping them up to date. They also greatly simplified the process of making web pages accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of the device they use to read a page, and regardless of any disability they might have.