Sorry for so basic question, but can you recommend some sites to learn usable css? Not outdated ugly basic solutions nobody uses anymore.
I see my problem as having different perception and needing translation from "function required" to "how it is named in css".
Example:
I'm now keeping in my hands CSS Pocket Reference. You know: the small book with two trouts on the cover. And feeling like this was made for the people with a different frame of mind: Rule structure, selectors, values precedence... Property reference is completely useless for me.
What happened to how to make a single or two columns page, mixed columns after that, draw the line after that, making this but not that type of menu approach? Or at least the dictionary for translating from human language to css terms to look for?
In html it's easier: enter in the search font color or relative and absolute links, and you get at once what you need.
Not so with css: columns, mixed columns, positioning search show either unusable or outdated things.
I tried to find how to make two short columns after a wide single text column, on a page with sidebar and single column of text. No luck.
Yes, a already read a lot of tutorials, including w3schools, on how css works. This doesn't help and even pollutes the perfectly clear solutions that exist somewhere but impossible to find within one day (for every small thing you need to find).
Does it make sense to you? Sorry about my English, doing my best.
Borderline: looking for a links to a good sites to find how to make contemporary (not not used anymore) elements for websites, not the tutorials with primitivization and oversimplification - I already read them.
Thank you.
I see my problem as having different perception and needing translation from "function required" to "how it is named in css".
Example:
I'm now keeping in my hands CSS Pocket Reference. You know: the small book with two trouts on the cover. And feeling like this was made for the people with a different frame of mind: Rule structure, selectors, values precedence... Property reference is completely useless for me.
What happened to how to make a single or two columns page, mixed columns after that, draw the line after that, making this but not that type of menu approach? Or at least the dictionary for translating from human language to css terms to look for?
In html it's easier: enter in the search font color or relative and absolute links, and you get at once what you need.
Not so with css: columns, mixed columns, positioning search show either unusable or outdated things.
I tried to find how to make two short columns after a wide single text column, on a page with sidebar and single column of text. No luck.
Yes, a already read a lot of tutorials, including w3schools, on how css works. This doesn't help and even pollutes the perfectly clear solutions that exist somewhere but impossible to find within one day (for every small thing you need to find).
Does it make sense to you? Sorry about my English, doing my best.
Borderline: looking for a links to a good sites to find how to make contemporary (not not used anymore) elements for websites, not the tutorials with primitivization and oversimplification - I already read them.
Thank you.
