True to the Smashing Magazine's promise, Smashing CSS smashes readers with the CSS information they need to make their life easier. Really. Inside, CSS expert and best-selling author Eric A. Meyer shares 100 professional techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets to build modern web sites. Techniques include: Using the right tools - Firebug, Dragonfly, XRAY and more Throwing elements offscreen/hiding them body/html backgrounds in XHTML Serving CSS via HTTP headers More than 15 layout techniques including Clearfix, Two/Three simple columns, Faux columns, One True Layout, Holy Grail, Em-Based Layout, Fluid Grids, Sticky footers, and more A variety of CSS effects including CSS popups, Boxpunching, Rounded corners, CSS Sprites, Sliding doors, Liquid bleach, Ragged floats, and more CSS table styling including Using thead, tfoot, and tbody, Row headers, Column-oriented styling (classes), Styling data tables w/ jQuery, Tables to graphs, Tables to maps, and more CSS3 coverage including rounded corners, multiple backgrounds, RGBa, using jQuery to do CSS3 selections and so much more.