Cascading Style Sheets are
- a mechanism for separating formatting from content. This enables
great modularity in the implementation structures of information.
- a means for acheiving great control over the style, positioning and
flow of layout elements (text, images, ...)
These tutorial demonstrations at bluerobot.com address the vertical layout of
text. They are clear and quite useful.
A nice app note about how to extend a column to stretch vertically
with other content. Part of the generally useful
a list apart.
These tutorial demonstrations at glish.com address similar issues,
with a slightly different take. Also a bunch of links to useful resources.
A quick, clear guide to the subtle differences.
This specification is produced and maintained by the World Wide Web
consortium, an international standards body. It defines the language
for much of today's web practice. Unfortunately, dealing with
deviations from the spec are a normal part of a developer's life.
This is the current active specification.
Another W3C standards document. Again, what browsers do is not exactly
the standard. The Flanagan JavaScript book, and the sites linked to on
this page, can give you *some* information about deviations.
This page is a good starting point for a cross reference of
information concerning dynamic HTML. the obvious downside is this
reference pertains only to the IE browser.
this is a simple example of using the z-index value interactively.
this shows how the different settings for overflow behave. note that
images are subject to the same results. The
overflow attribute
enables any block level element to have scroll bars when its size is
constrained to be smaller than its content.
Here, the links are the thing.
As far as design goes, the use of space is clear.
However, this site suffers from the collection problem.
Fundamentals of what stylesheets are, how to use them, what they're good for.
This page contains turorials on arranging CSS, including slanted text.
Another site of tutorials on how to arrange web spaces using divs.
Use the menu to select various styles that will completely remake the look of the page. Those brave enough can even make a submisison to the page of their own design.
short reading:
Comparison of Strict and Transitional XHTML
