Overview
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CSS is the best and most flexible way to visually present ebooks. Learn how to style your EPUBs—including text, graphics, and background elements—exactly as you want with CSS.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Quick references
- Using the exercise files
- What is CSS?
- Understanding the relationship between CSS and EPUB
- Understanding the concept of inheritance
- Taking a look at the basic anatomy of a CSS rule
- Working with three basic CSS selectors
- Working with more advanced compound selectors
- Targeting elements with group selectors
- Understanding descendant selectors
- Using classes and IDs with compound selectors
- Discovering how Cascading Style Sheets are implemented
- Incorporating @ directives in CSS
- Understanding fixed and relative units
- Understanding the CSS box model
- Including comments inside CSS
- Writing more efficient code with shorthand notation
- Understanding the special environment of the EPUB reading system
- Looking at the essential text-related properties
- Working with sizing
- Working with alignment
- Including margins and padding
- Styling a heading
- Working with fine typographic controls
- Including paragraph indents
- Handling text hyphens, widows, and orphans
- Working with additional font properties
- Specifying colors in CSS
- Incorporating document borders
- Using CSS to include images
- Working with background properties
- Challenge: CSS graphics
- Solution: CSS graphics
- Styling lists
- Challenge: Styling a list
- Solution: Styling a list
- Writing smarter rules
- Understanding the concept of positioning
- Positioning: Relative
- Positioning: Absolute and fixed
- Positioning: Float
- Clearing floats
- Working with some clever CSS selectors
- Incorporating page breaks
- Figuring out CSS support levels on specific devices
- Challenge: Funky floats
- Solution: Funky floats
- Next steps
