Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd ...

Introductionthe fly. Appendix C, “CSS Colors,” provides a reference of CSS named colors. Appendix D,“Browser Rendering Modes,” provides a reference for the browser rendering modes invokedby the presence or absence of a Document Type Declaration (discussed in Chapter 7).What Do You Need to Use This Book?To make use of the examples in this book, you need the following:❑❑Several Internet browsers to test your web pagesText-editing softwareDesigning content for websites requires being able to reach more than one type of audience. Some ofyour audience may be using different operating systems or different browsers other than those you haveinstalled on your computer. This book focuses on the most popular browsers available at the time of thiswriting.I discuss how to obtain and install each of these browsers in greater detail in Chapter 1. The examples inthis book also require that web page source code be composed using text-editing software. Chapter 1also discusses a few different options for the text-editing software available on Windows or Macintoshoperating systems.ConventionsTo help you get the most from the text and keep track of what’s happening, I’ve used a number of conventionsthroughout the book:Boxes like this one hold important, not-to-be-forgotten information that is directlyrelevant to the surrounding text.Tips, hints, tricks, and asides to the current discussion are offset and placed in italics like this.As for styles in the text:❑❑❑❑I highlight important words when I introduce them.I show keyboard strokes like this: Ctrl+A.I show URLs and code within the text in a special monofont typeface, like this: persistence.properties.I present code in the following two ways:In code examples, I highlight new and important code with a gray background.The gray highlighting is not used for code that’s less important in the presentcontext, or has been shown before.xxii