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Keith J. Grant
Foreword by Chris Coyier

July 2024
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To create web designs that delight, entertain, and impress your users, you need to know CSS in depth!

Getting good—really good—at CSS means learning everything that CSS is capable of. This totally revised new edition of CSS in Depth expands your CSS skills with the patterns, layouts, and methods you need to deliver truly beautiful front ends.

In CSS in Depth, Second Edition you will learn how to:

Create a web page with layout methods
Develop essential website components, like dropdown menus and dialog boxes
Make your website fully responsive across devices
Organize your CSS for easy future maintenance
Implement designer mockups with attention to detail
Use animations to guide user focus
Avoid common CSS pitfalls

The more you know about CSS, the more confident you’ll be at tackling any tricky website design! CSS in Depth has given thousands of web developers the tools and the inspiration to make sites that really pop. This second edition is packed with the latest best practices, new CSS language features, and essential advice on how to organize and maintain your CSS codebase.

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To deliver truly beautiful frontends, you need to know CSS inside and out. And as CSS grows and matures, even experienced CSS developers will find a whole new set of skills to catch up on! This guide will help you discover everything that CSS is capable of—from the must-knows and brand-new features to the hidden insights you won’t find anywhere else!

about the book

CSS in Depth, Second Edition, deep dives into the CSS techniques used by the world’s most skilled web developers. Inside, you’ll learn how to build and organize a modular CSS codebase that’s easy to understand, maintain, and reuse. This new edition is fully revised to cover the CSS standard’s latest additions, including cascade layers, logical properties, new color functions, subgrid, and container queries.

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Vertical centering, margin collapsing, and positioning
Dropdown menus and modal dialog boxes
Animations to guide user focus
Avoiding common CSS pitfalls

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Written for web developers who know the basics of CSS and HTML.

about the author

Keith J. Grant is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he works on front-end code for the Ansible Controller web application using JavaScript and CSS.

The technical editor on this book was Chris Chinchilla.

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A systemic approach to CSS, clearly describing what makes the language unique and how all the pieces fit together.

Miriam Suzanne, Invited Expert on the W3C CSS Working Group

Clear explanations and practical examples demystify complex concepts. An invaluable resource for both new and experienced developers.

Adam Argyle, Chrome CSS Developer Advocate, Google

An excellent in-depth book diving into the gritty details. Offers a great code-along experience with its examples and explanations.

Simon Verhoeven, Software Engineer, Itenium

“The best book to learn CSS in depth. In my case, it was useful for automated company tests. Lots of insights, resources and concepts explained with simple examples and in an structured manner. A worthwhile reading.”

“I've been coding frontend for three years but realized I missed a lot of fundamentals. This book helped clarify blurry concepts and strengthen my understanding of the basics. It's a very well-written text.”

“He thoroughly explains concepts and includes guidance for practical usage. I highly recommend this book for experienced front-end developers who want to catch up on the latest features. It is also a good reference book because it covers all the important concepts in a concise but sufficient way. Based on experience, he also calls out CSS behavior that may be unexpected.”

“I have been struggling with CSS and even switched to Tailwind CSS, which is fine for prototyping but not a long term maintainable solution. Keith lays out the fundamental concepts and how you can use them to build a modular and maintainable CSS stack for your website / webapp. The best explanations I have ever seen and as a result I am dumping Tailwind for my App and re-engineering it with straight CSS. Highly recommmended”

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