Advanced CSS

Audience

This course is aimed at Web designers, Web developers, Web usability and accessibility consultants.

Prerequisites

• Appreciation of basic CSS syntax
• The ability to code syntactically correct (i.e. valid) HTML/XHTML
• The ability to distinguish semantic markup from a machine-coded pile of div's, span's and table's.

Duration

1 day. Hands on.

Course Objectives

This CSS course aims to enable experienced web designers to tackle and overcome the tricky problems which can make advanced CSS techniques difficult to implement in a cost-effective manner. Delegates will learn to diagnose, resolve and work around the most common problems, bugs, and browser incompatibilities encountered in advanced CSS web design. Expert instruction on these challenges is accompanied by best practice advice on how to create elegant, managable and affordable CSS in timely fashion.

Course Content

Introduction to Advanced CSS
Advanced CSS: Browser Modes and Browser Detection
Advanced CSS Box Models
Advanced CSS Float Models
Automatic Box Sizing in Advanced CSS
Advanced CSS Positioning and Offsets
Common Browser Bugs and Common CSS Problems