CSS has grown from a language for formatting documents into a robust language for designing web applications. Its simplicity is deceptive, however. It belies the complexity of the box model, stacking contexts, specificity, and the cascade. CSS mastery lies in understanding these concepts and how to take advantage of them.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Selectors

Chapter 2: CSS Architecture and Organization

Chapter 3: Debugging and Optimization

Chapter 4: Custom Properties

Chapter 5: Layouts

Chapter 6: Working with Text

Chapter 7: Transitions and Animations

Chapter 8: Transforms

Chapter 9: Visual Effects

Chapter 10: Applying CSS Conditionally

Chapter 11: CSS and Scrolling

Chapter 12: SVG

Chapter 13: Conclusion

About the Author

Tiffany B. Brown is a freelance web developer and technical writer based in Los Angeles. She has worked on the web for more than a decade at a mix of media companies and agencies. Before founding her consultancy, Webinista, Inc., she was part of the Opera Software Developer Relations & Tools team. Now she offers web development and consulting services to agencies and small design teams.