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In this practical guide, CSS expert Lea Verou provides 47 undocumented techniques and tips to help intermediate-to advanced CSS developers devise elegant solutions to a wide range of everyday web design problems.

Rather than focus on design, CSS Secrets shows you how to solve problems with code. You´ll learn how to apply Lea´s analytical approach to practically every CSS problem you face to attain DRY, maintainable, flexible, lightweight, and standards-compliant results.

Inspired by her popular talks at over 60 international web development conferences, Lea Verou provides a wealth of information for topics including:

Backgrounds and Borders
Shapes
Visual Effects
Typography
User Experience
Structure and Layout
Transitions and Animations



Chapter 1Introduction
Web standards: friend or foe?
CSS coding tips
Chapter 2Backgrounds & Borders
1 Translucent borders
2 Multiple borders
3 Flexible background positioning
4 Inner rounding
5 Striped backgrounds
6 Complex background patterns
7 (Pseudo)random backgrounds
8 Continuous image borders
Chapter 3Shapes
9 Flexible ellipses
10 Parallelograms
11 Diamond images
12 Cutout corners
13 Trapezoid tabs
14 Simple pie charts
Chapter 4Visual Effects
15 One-sided shadows
16 Irregular drop shadows
17 Color tinting
18 Frosted glass effect
19 Folded corner effect
Chapter 5Typography
20 Hyphenation
21 Inserting line breaks
22 Zebra-striped text lines
23 Adjusting tab width
24 Ligatures
25 Fancy ampersands
26 Custom underlines
27 Realistic text effects
28 Circular text
Chapter 6User Experience
29 Picking the right cursor
30 Extending the clickable area
31 Custom checkboxes
32 De-emphasize by dimming
33 De-emphasize by blurring
34 Scrolling hints
35 Interactive image comparison
Chapter 7Structure & Layout
36 Intrinsic sizing
37 Taming table column widths
38 Styling by sibling count
39 Fluid background, fixed content
40 Vertical centering
41 Sticky footers
Chapter 8Transitions & Animations
42 Elastic transitions
43 Frame-by-frame animations
44 Blinking
45 Typing animation
46 Smooth state animations
47 Animation along a circular path