Part 1. The Detective’s Apprentice

YOU SIT LOOKING AT THE SCREEN, trying to understand why your code is giving you the visual equivalent of gibberish instead of the clear visual diction of your original design. Criminal CSS and browser rendering have gotten the best of you again, but for the last time. You are ready to start your training with the CSS Detective.

IN CHAPTER 1, “Investigating the Scene of the Crime,” you’ll learn how to go over the evidence in the code, discovering what you’re looking at and what you’re looking for.

IN CHAPTER 2, “The Tools of the Trade,” you’ll learn techniques and tips that will go a long way toward preventing coding crimes before they happen.

IN CHAPTER 3, “Giving the Third Degree,” we will cover methods of isolating suspicious rules and lines of questioning techniques to get your CSS to ’fess up as to where the rendering problems are coming from.

BY CHAPTER 4, you’ll be ready to see the lineup of “The Usual Suspects”: common bugs and problems that almost everybody who wrangles CSS has had the misfortune of encountering face-to-face.