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Practical Web Development

You're reading from   Practical Web Development Learn CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and more with this vital guide to modern web development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782175919
Length 276 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paul Wellens Paul Wellens
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The World Wide Web FREE CHAPTER 2. HTML 3. CSS 4. JavaScript 5. PHP 6. PHP and MySQL 7. jQuery 8. Ajax 9. The History API – Not Forgetting Where We Are 10. XML and JSON 11. MongoDB 12. Mobile First, Responsive Design with Progressive Enhancement 13. Foundation – A Responsive CSS/JavaScript Framework 14. Node.js A. Bootstrap – An Alternative to Foundation Index

Chapter 3. CSS

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create HTML documents using HTML elements and attributes. We can even include images and links to other documents and images. But when you look at the result on a screen, you are probably disappointed. I hope you are, because that was done on purpose (oops, I almost said by design, but the design part is what this chapter is all about). When I wrote my first web pages, I was disappointed too, in particular when discovering how hard it was to do something that should be simple: putting a photograph on a page and some text right next to it. Well now, it's time to turn disappointment into excitement!

In this chapter, we will learn how to add the presentation part—in other words the layout—to our web pages, using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Style sheets are a common feature in Desktop Publishing software. They allow you to specify (or modify) the style of a section of a certain kind in your document: for...

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