CSS: The Definitive Guide
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more.
Simply put, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a way to separate a document's structure from its presentation. The benefits of this can be quite profound: CSS allows a much richer document appearance than HTML and also saves time -- you can create or change the appearance of an entire document in just one place; and its compact file size makes web pages load quickly.
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more. Author Eric Meyer tackles the subject with passion, exploring in detail each individual CSS property and how it interacts with other properties. You'll not only learn how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation, you also will benefit from the depth and breadth of his experience and his clear and honest style. This is the complete sourcebook on CSS.
The 3rd edition contains:
- Updates to reflect changes in the latest draft version of CSS 2.1
- Browser notes updated to reflect changes between IE6 and IE7
- Advanced selectors supported in IE7 and other major browsers included
- A new round of technical edits by a fresh set of editors
- Clarifications and corrected errata, including updated URLs of referenced online resources
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25 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 27, 2008 Type: User Review |
Very authoritative and complete
Before purchasing this book, I had purchased about a half dozen books on css, one from the same author. I was really surprised to find new ways to use css that I hadn't learned in the other books. Each topic is discussed completely and in...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
a little sloppy for a "presentation" CSS book
This is a book about CSS, and CSS, is about the presentation aspect of web pages. How the text appears, the size, the layout, etc.
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 31, 2008 Type: User Review |
Excellent Intermediate
Nicely written, very informative. My deduction of a star is for the reference having neither examples nor page numbers where a more detailed explanation would be found. This is a common omission, so I would still recommend this book. I would not...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 19, 2008 Type: User Review |
Complete coverage of CSS
As others have pointed out this is not a CSS "cookbook" full of design templates. If that is what you are looking for, you will be disappointed. If however, you want to understand CSS, how it works, best practices and so on, this is a great book....
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 31, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great only for resource
Most of the stuff that you learn in CSS can be found already ONLINE and before I bought this book, I had a very good fundamental understanding CSS and thought I buy this book for more knowledge and learn anything that I could have missed. Well I...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 24, 2007 Type: User Review |
Not a Book on Website Design.
This book is a reference, and quite an excellent one at that. Definitely complete (as the title implies).
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 19, 2007 Type: User Review |
Got me up and running
Before I got this book, I knew basic HTML, and I knew that CSS could help me put all my design information in one place - fonts, colors, etc. I knew it could be used for layout, somehow, but all the tutorials and articles I'd read online had just...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 22, 2007 Type: User Review |
Disappointed
Having read Dan Flanagan's excellent definitive guide on javascript, I was looking forward to Eric Meyer's definitive guide on CSS. Also, I have been impressed with the O'Reilly's books on my shelf. I figured this was a "could not miss"....
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 2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 04, 2007 Type: User Review |
Good reference
This book could be organized a little more intuitively, but all-in-all it has the stipulations and definitions you need from the CSS standards in a printed form. I would recommend the pocket guide as well.
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
Excellent as a Second Volume and Definitive Reference
I've managed development efforts for several years and, although I'm an advanced developer in ASP.Net and numerous server-side technologies, felt I was too much at the mercy of "the web guys" on my project teams when it came to making decisions on...
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5.00/5 |
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