CSS for Windows 8 app development

✍ Scribed by Foster, Jeremy

• Publisher: Apress, Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Series: Expert's voice in Windows 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

CSS for Windows 8 App Development is your learning guide for CSS - the language of great Windows 8-style apps. Learn the built-in styles that make the built-in controls shine, how to define them, and how to use CSS to give your custom app assets that beautiful Modern UI style. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the clear standard for styling web applications, and with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript now powering apps on Windows 8, it's the clear standard there as well. CSS is a powerful styling and layout language that greatly simplifies the selection of page elements and their visual display, layout, and animation. Additionally, Windows 8 apps appear on a large variety of screen formats, and CSS is the primary means for uniquely defining these layouts. Read more...

Abstract: CSS for Windows 8 App Development is your learning guide for CSS - the language of great Windows 8-style apps. Learn the built-in styles that make the built-in controls shine, how to define them, and how to use CSS to give your custom app assets that beautiful Modern UI style. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the clear standard for styling web applications, and with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript now powering apps on Windows 8, it's the clear standard there as well. CSS is a powerful styling and layout language that greatly simplifies the selection of page elements and their visual display, layout, and animation. Additionally, Windows 8 apps appear on a large variety of screen formats, and CSS is the primary means for uniquely defining these layouts

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Windows 8 Design --
Introduction to Windows 8 Development --
Selectors and Style Rules --
Text Properties --
Box Properties --
Transforms, Transitions, and Animation Properties --
Layout Properties --
Global Styles --
WinJS Control Styles --
Overriding and Defining Styles.