CSS Cookbook Extracts

Although we ran a competition to win the book a couple of weeks ago, we've just managed to get our sticky paws (thanks to author Christopher Schmitt and his publishers O'Reilly) on a couple of extracts from the book.

In the accompanying download (follow the link marked Details ... adjacent to the Code Download heading in the blue box on the right) you'll find three recipes for CSS success taken from different sections of the book.

The book covers CSS 2.1 using the classic cookbook approach of considering a topic and taking a Problem – Solution – Discussion approach to its treatment. The first two sections efficiently set the scene and deliver the code needed to achieve the desired result. The final section allows space for development of ideas and explanation of the code, potential gotchas and alternatives.

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Overview

The extracts we’ve got are:

Recipe 1.6 – from Chapter 1 on Web Typography – Setting an Initial Cap with Decoration (Imagery)

Describes how to use an image to replace that first letter of an article.

Recipe 2.10 – from Chapter 2 on Page Elements – Example Design: Setting Up a Dynamic Splash Page

A nice little solution to a way of providing a splash page that draws information from the main page of a website; the solution incorporates cookie code to ensure frequent visitors can skip over it.

Recipe 3.9 from Chapter 3 on Links and Navigation – Creating Breadcrumb Navigation

Nesting navigation links to allow navigation back up a link hierarchy.

Ian Blackham

Ian Blackham Following a degree in Chemistry and a doctorate in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Ian spent several years wrestling with acronyms in industrial R&D (SEM with a side order of EDS, AFM and TEM augmented with a topping of XPS and SIMS and yet more SEM and TEM).

Feeling that he needed a career with more terminology but less high voltages, Ian became a technical/commissioning editor with Wrox Press working on books as diverse as Beg VB Application Development and Professional Java Security. After Wrox's dissolution and a few short term assignments Ian became content manager at DMXzone.

Ian is a refugee from the industrial Black Country having slipped across the border to live in Birmingham. In his spare time he helps out with the website of a local history society, tries to makes sure he does what his wife Kate says, and worries that the little 'un Noah is already more grown up than he is.

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