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Classes? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Classes!
Classes, classes, classes everywhere. What if we don’t need CSS classes at all? What if we stopped worrying about how many classes we’re using and what we should be calling them and just finished with them once and for all?While historically, it’s been difficult at best to create print-quality PDF books from markup alone, CSS3 now brings the Paged Media Module , which targets print book formatting. “Paged” media exists as finite pages, like books and magazines, rather than as long scrolling stretches of text, like most websites. CSS3 allows us to style text, divide it into book pages, and set the page structure as a whole. You can dictate the size of the book, header and footer content, how to display cross references and tables of contents, whether to add guides and bleeds for commercial printing companies, and more.
Building Books with CSS3
Since our last round-up of useful CSS techniques , we’ve seen a lot of truly remarkable CSS geekery out there. With CSS3, some of the older techniques now have become obsolete, others have established themselves as standards, and many techniques are still in the “crazy experimentation” stage. Since the release of the previous post, we’ve been collecting, sorting, filtering and preparing a compact overview of powerful new CSS techniques . Today we finally present some of these techniques. Use them right away or save them for future reference. Please note that many techniques are not only CSS-based, but also use HTML5 and JavaScript.
