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Book Description

The Grid Layout spec will soon change your approach to website design, but there will still be plenty of uses for CSS positioning tricks. Whether you want to create sidebars that remain in the viewport (browser window), add sticky section headings to lists or long articles, or overlap one element with another, this concise ebook will expertly guide you through all the main CSS positioning types.

Short and deep, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Positioning in CSS, you’ll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it’s released. Why wait? Learn how to make your web pages come alive today.

Table of Contents

  1. Preface
    1. Conventions Used in This Book
    2. Safari® Books Online
    3. How to Contact Us
  2. 1. Positioning
    1. Basic Concepts
      1. Types of Positioning
      2. The Containing Block
    2. Offset Properties
    3. Width and Height
      1. Setting Width and Height
      2. Limiting Width and Height
    4. Content Overflow and Clipping
      1. Overflow
    5. Element Visibility
    6. Absolute Positioning
      1. Containing Blocks and Absolutely Positioned Elements
      2. Placement and Sizing of Absolutely Positioned Elements
      3. Auto-edges
      4. Placing and Sizing Nonreplaced Elements
      5. Placing and Sizing Replaced Elements
      6. Placement on the z-axis
    7. Fixed Positioning
    8. Relative Positioning
    9. Sticky Positioning
    10. Summary
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