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Css guide - introduction. Css intro >> by John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin Download the Complete CSS Guide The first four parts of this guide, including the all important sections on properties and selectors are available here for free as part of our collection of CSS resources, the House of Style. But we also have a downloadable version of the guide which you can purchase for just $24.99. As well as the convenience of having your own copy of this indispensable reference you get up to date integrated browser support info including Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 7 and Opera 7 an extra section, Real World CSS, full of practical hints and tips for making CSS really work Save You get a bonus copy of the Complete CSS Guide What is the Complete CSS Guide?

When Cascading Style Sheets were introduced in late 1996, they represented an exciting new opportunity. Since then, much about the web has changed. Now, Internet Explorer dominates the browser scene even more than Netscape did back then. Westciv Self Paced Courses Opera. CSS Transparency Settings for All Browsers. CSS Drop Shadows. They’re the corkscrew in every graphic designer’s Swiss Army knife. Much used, oft maligned but always popular, drop shadows are a staple of graphic design. Although easy to accomplish with image-editing software, they’re not of much use in the fast-changing world of web design.

On the web, adaptability and ease of use dictate trends — and static images with a fixed background effect are not very adaptable. But what if we had a technique to build flexible CSS drop shadows that can be applied to arbitrary block elements? That can expand as the content of the block changes shape? Compatible with most modern browsers? Interested? Here’s how it works: you need to make a drop shadow image in the image editor of your choice. We’ll start by giving a shadow to an image and then move on to other block elements. And its corresponding markup (one div is the only extra markup we’ll need): The following illustration shows how the technique works: background: url(shadow.gif) no-repeat bottom right;

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