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Table of contents

The shorter version

Page classifications

• Front page of the CSS-guide
• General info pages
• Guide pages
• Extra pages
• Proposals
• Practice pages

General info pages

• Contents of general info pages
• What's new?
  • Common
  • Last changes
• How topic groups relate with each others
• Introduction pages:
  • Copyright
  • Preface
    • Important information
• Advice pages:
  • Used colors, special markups and links in the CSS-guide
  • Preface
    • Important information
  • Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
    • Common
    • Questions and answers
    • Links to other FAQ pages
  • My browser recommendations
    • Common (introsection)
    • Operating systems (section 1)
      • Windows 95+
      • Mac
      • Other platforms
    • Speed of browsers and the usage of RAM (section 2)
  • Functionality of my pages with different browsers
    • Common (intro section)
    • Table concerning rendering of my dynamic menus (section 1a)
      • Details of browser performance ratings (section 1b)
    • Functionality of my pages with Opera browsers (section 2)
      • Common
      • Browser specific hints
      • Known problems
    • Functionality of my pages with MS IE browsers (section 3)
      • Common
      • Browser specific hints
      • Known problems
    • Functionality of my pages with Netscape/Mozilla browsers (section 4)
      • Common
      • Browser specific hints
      • Known problems
  • Offline browsing of my CSS-site
    • Common
    • Installation instructions
    • Gathering pages:
      • Gathering 1 (the contents, preface and pages 1-12 as one page) (read a warning)
      • Gathering 2 (extra pages as one page) (read a warning)

Index pages

• Contents of index pages
• Glossary
  • Common
  • Glossary of English words
• Table of contents
• Links
• Page table

Guide pages

• Contents of the guide pages

1. What are basic structures of HTML and XML documents (CSS2 2)
   • Common (intro section)
   • Generic about elements and the basic idea of HTML (section 1)
   • Block and inline level elements (section 2)
   • The document tree (section 3)
   • Total structure of documents (section 4)
     • Attributes, declarations and comments
     • Meaning of particles of documents
   • From pre-HTML until HTML 3.2 (section 5)
   • HTML 4.0 + CSS and the aims of CSS (section 6)
   • XML and XHTML (section 7)
     • XML
     • XHTML
2. How to put CSS into Web pages (CSS2 1, 3-4)
   • Common (intro section)
   • Declarations (section 1)
   • Style sheets inside style attributes (section 2)
   • Linked and embedded style sheets (section 3)
     • External style sheets
     • Embedded style sheets + the import rule
     • Alternative style sheets
3. What are color, units and keywords in CSS (CSS2 4)
   • Units and keywords
   • Colors
   • Special units
   • Error handling
4. What are selectors, classes and id-attributes (CSS2 5-6)
   • Common (intro section)
   • Basic selector types and grouping (section 1)
     • Universal selectors
     • Element type selectors
     • Grouping
   • Class selector, attribute selectors and id selectors (section 2)
     • Common about class, attribute and id selectors (section 2a)
     • Class and attribute selectors (section 2b)
       • Class selector
       • Attribute selectors
     • Id selector (section 2c)
   • Pseudo-classes and Pseudo-elements (section 3)
     • Common
     • Pseudo-classes
     • Pseudo-elements
   • Other selectors and lists of selectors (section 4)
     • Common
     • Selectors of CSS2
     • Selectors of CSS3
5. What is the processing order of CSS (CSS2 3, 5-6)
   • Common (intro section)
   • Basic ideas (section 1)
     • Basic metaphors
     • Inheritance
   • Matching patterns and contextual selectors (section 2)
   • Cascading order (section 3)
     • Ordinary situations
     • Important rule
6. How to set CSS for texts and different media types (CSS2 7, 13, 15-16, 18)
   • Common (intro section)
   • Basic definitions for texts (section 1)
   • Media types and groups (section 2)
     • The media rule and media types
     • Media groups
     • Special at-rule for font types
   • Special at-rule for printing and printing-specific features (section 3)
   • List of at-rules (section 4)
   • Special focusing features (section 5)
     • User interface
     • Internationalization
     • New focusing features of CSS3
7. How to set CSS for anchors and links (CSS2 5)
   • Common
   • Image and text links
   • Attribute What are selectors, classes and id-attributes
8. How to set CSS for backgrounds and borders (CSS2 8, 14)
   • Common
   • Backgrounds properties (section 1)
   • Border properties (section 2)
   • Backgrounds and borders for forms and frames (section 3)
   • Backgrounds and borders for HTML and BODY elements (section 4)
   • Special problems (section 5)
     • Inline and block level elements (section 5a)
     • Dimensions of block boxes (section 5b)
9. How to set CSS for list elements (CSS2 12)
   • Common
   • CSS1 examples
   • CSS2-CSS3 new features
10. How to set CSS for table elements (CSS2 17)
    • Common (intro section)
    • HTML 4.01 table elements (section 1)
    • Border models and empty cells (section 2)
    • Basic rendering methods (section 3)
    • Problems with content dimensions properties (section 4)
11. What is the visual formatting model of CSS2 (CSS2 9-11)
    • Common (intro section)
    • Div + float (section 1)
    • Position model of CSS2 (sections 2)
      • Common about positioning (section 2a)
      • Absolute positioned elements (section 2a)
      • Fixed positioned elements (section 2b)
    • Visual effects (section 3)
      • Display
      • Visibility
      • DHTML
12. What other special features CSS has (eg. CSS2 19, CSS3 UI)
    • Common
    • Paged media
    • Font matching algorithms
    • @charset and unicode-bidi
    • Aural style sheets
    • Forms
    • New features in CSS3

Extra pages

• Contents of the extra pages

1. What are purposes of Web standards
   • Common
   • Netscape
   • Opera
   • Microsoft
   • Some questionable encodings
   • Fair play
2. Which problems are the CSS2 specification
   • Common
   • The content width
   • Inline blocks
   • Centralization of blocks
   • Forms
   • Collapsing table borders
   • Viewport
   • A plug-ins application to CSS3?
   • Fixes in CSS3
3. What conceptual schemes and term trees relate with CSS
   • Conceptual schemes:
     • HTML/XML comment tag
     • Element tags
   • Term trees:
     • Identifiers
     • Markup codes
4. What are semantics of (X)HTML elements
   • Common
   • The semantics of this site
     • Inline level elements
     • Block level elements
   • Other elements
   • Importance of semantics for aural style sheets
5. What kind of non-standard (proprietary) CSS browsers support
   • Common (intro section)
   • UA and UI CSS (section 1)
     • UA CSS in Mozilla Gecko browsers
     • UA CSS in Opera 4.x+ browsers
     • UI CSS
   • Harmfulness of proprietary CSS (section 2)
   • DTD-switches (section 3)
   • Details (section 4)
   • Software-specific encoding (section 5)
     • Common
     • MSHTML and "FPHTML"
     • Adobe GoLive
   • Examples of illegal definitions (section 6)
     • Illegal CSS definitions
     • Hints to avoid problems
     • Illegal HTML 4.0 Transitional loose definitions - includes critique towards HTML 4.0 and CSS!
     • Other validator services
6. Some advice how to design CSS files
   • Common
   • Media blocks
   • Separate files
   • Themes
   • Printing
7. What JavaScript tricks can be used with CSS
   • Flexible width control for MS IE
   • Floating elements and other tricks
8. What CSS-features I have used in my pages
   • Common
   • Basic concepts, rules and What are selectors, classes and id-attributes
   • Properties
9. How to design dynamic menus
   • Common (intro section)
   • Solutions for problematic situations (section 1)
   • Used JavaScript encoding (section 2)
     • Model files
     • Functions
   • Timered menus (section 3)
   • Non-timered menus (section 4)
   • Positioning (section 5)
     • Visibility & position
     • Other alternatives
   • Presentation (section 6)
10. What are user style sheets
    • Common
    • Why user style sheets?
    • Usage and deficiencies
11. How to use CSS with XML documents
    • Common
    • Usage of CSS
    • Linking and other XML features
12. What is the situation of XML and XSL today
    • Common
    • MS IE 5.x
    • InDelv
    • HTML-Kit
    • Other applications
    • Test pages
13. What kind of problems WAP has
    • Common
    • Media types
    • Link images
    • Scripts
14. What CSS-implementation errors are in browsers
    • Common
    • Microsoft
    • Netscape
    • Opera
    • Some demonstrations or errors or missing features
15. What CSS-implementation errors are in MS IE browsers
    • Common
    • MS IE 4.x for Windows
    • MS IE 5.5 for Windows
      • Bugs and missing features
      • Proprietary CSS
    • MS IE 6.0+ for Windows
    • MS IE 5.0+ for Mac
    • Skipping
16. What CSS-implementation errors are in Netscape/Mozilla browsers
    • Common (introsection)
    • Netscape 4.x related problems (section 1)
      • Passing Netscape 4.x
      • Without linking
      • Especially problematic features
      • Some other hints
    • Netscape 6.x+/Mozilla Gecko related problems (section 2)
17. What CSS-implementation errors are in Opera browsers
    • Common
    • Problems in Opera 5.x+
18. What CSS-editors and application are available
    • PageBuilder
    • HTML-Kit
    • Amaya
    • Top Style
    • StyleMaster
    • Netscape 6.x
    • Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0
    • DHTML Menu Builder
19. What are some speacial advances using CSS

Proposals

• Contents of the proposal pages
• My proposals for CSS3
  • Common
  • What are selectors, classes and id-attributes
  • Pseudo-classes and Pseudo-elements
    • Common
    • Pseudo-classes
    • Pseudo-elements
  • How to set CSS for backgrounds and borders
  • A list of proposals
• Some comments to my proposals for CSS3
• eXtensible Cascading Style S heets (XCSS)
  • Common
  • A proposal to XCSS
• Cascading script sheets
  • Common
  • Script attributes
  • Embedded script definitions
  • External script files
  • Pattern matching with scripts
  • Media rules with scripts
  • New syntax proposals
  • Advances of my proposal
  • Relation to other proposals
• Cascading Style Sheet with Transformation
  • Status of this document
  • Transformation rule
  • Advances of my proposal
  • Criticism towards XSL-fo
• More powerful XSL?
  • Common (introsection)
  • An open letter to the XSL working group of W3C (section 1)
  • XLS - mission impossible? (section 2)

Practice pages

• Contents of the practice pages
• Practice tasks
  • Common
  • Page 2., How to put CSS into Web pages
  • Page 3., What are color, units and keywords in CSS
  • Page 4., What are selectors, classes and id-attributes
  • Page 5., What is the processing order of CSS
  • Page 6., How to set CSS for texts and different media types
  • Page 7., How to set CSS for anchors and links
  • Page 8., How to set CSS for backgrounds and borders
  • Page 9., How to set CSS for list elements
  • Page 10., How to set CSS for table elements
  • Page 11., How to put CSS into Web pages
• Model, test and example pages
  • Common
  • Model, test and example pages
    • Pages 1-11
    • Extra pages
    • Other pages