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

arranging (positioning) (continued)arranging (positioning) (continued)fixeddescribed, 389–393emulating, 393–399footer, 415–417heading, 411–414heading with footer, 417–420heading with footer and side columns, 424–428side columns, 421–424steps, 399–402stretching content by using offset properties in pairs,402–411horizontal and vertical center content in web browser,441–443multicolumn layoutdescribed, 444–447with heading and footer, 447–452relativeapplying, 386–389described, 381–383offset, 384–386values, listed, 372z-axis and z-index property, 428–430z-index property with integer valueapplying, 430–432IE 6 and IE 7 z-index bug, 434–437layering nested elements, 433–434sample, 438–441answers to exercise questions, 545–562asterisk (*)applying, 68–71browser compatibility, 564specificity, 113asterisk, forward slash (*/), 29–30attributeall substrings, 92–93beginning with string, 87–89containing string, 90–92described, 82–83ending with string, 89–90value, 83–87attribute existence selector, 564aural media, 488auto keywordaligning with left or right margin, 220–221 element, 33–34~img/~ element, 252–254in quirks mode, 222–223tables, 32–33auto width and height, 249–254automatic numbering, 581–582Bbackgroundsbrowser compatibility table, 569–570color (background-color), 339–343fixed, 396image (background-image), 343–346Microsoft proprietary extensions, 585placement (background-position)controlling, 358–360described, 350–352mixing values, 352–354tiling, 354–357repeat (background-repeat), 346–350scrolling (background-attachment)described, 360–363fixing, 364–365shorthand property, 365–369Webkit (Safari) proprietary extensions, 590–591backslash (\), 36baselinecell contents, aligning, 314–317text alignment, 571BBEdit, 14before, page break property, 583::before pseudo-element, 566Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, andCSS (Duckett), 501Beginning XML, Third Edition (Hunter, et al.), 501Berners-Lee, Tim (World Wide Web Consortiumfounder), 7bitmap images, 43–44blink text, 570blink text decoration, 150block elements (display: block declaration),516–517block-level elements, 506blues, 599–600bold fontbrowser compatibility table, 568weight, 183–185borderapplying, 238–241border-collapse property, 478–479border-color property, 236border-spacing property, 479–481border-style property, 233–236border-width property, 230–233bottom properties, 573–574browser compatibility table, 573coloring, 208612