| OverviewSimply 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.
Editorial Reviews| Book Description | | 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. |
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| Acts as both a good tutorial and a good reference on CSS, 2006-12-20 | | Reviewer rating: |  |
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. Thus CSS primarily enables the separation of document content written in HTML or a similar markup language from document presentation written in CSS. Thus, this book will be helpful if you are a web designer or document author interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and saving time and effort. All you really need before starting the book is a decent knowledge of HTML 4.0, and the book covers everything else you need to know and has lots of examples. This book covers CSS2 and CSS2.1 up through the 11 April 2006 Working Draft. Some CSS3 selectors are also mentioned and covered. I found this to be a pretty good book for someone trying to learn CSS from scratch as well as someone seeking a good up-to-date reference on the subject. Particularly helpful is the Sample HTML 4 Style Sheet in Appendix C. Chapter one makes the case for CSS as bringing order to the chaos that web documents had sunk into by the year 2000, and the rest of the book mentions all of the aspects of CSS that you need to know to use the technology effectively. The following is the table of contents:
Chapter 1. CSS and Documents
Chapter 2. Selectors
Chapter 3. Structure and the Cascade
Chapter 4. Values and Units
Chapter 5. Fonts
Chapter 6. Text Properties
Chapter 7. Basic Visual Formatting
Chapter 8. Padding, Borders, and Margins
Chapter 9. Colors and Backgrounds
Chapter 10. Floating and Positioning
Chapter 11. Table Layout
Chapter 12. Lists and Generated Content
Chapter 13. User Interface Styles
Chapter 14. Non-Screen Media
Appendix A. Property Reference
Appendix B. Selector, Pseudo-Class, and Pseudo-Element Reference
Appendix C. Sample HTML 4 Style Sheet |
| | The CSS Standard, 2006-12-01 | | Reviewer rating: |  |
| This book does a great job explaining the ins and outs of CSS. It would be tough to find a better book or a more knowledgeable author. Plenty of thorough explanations; including a handy property reference in the appendix (or you could get the pocket guide by the same author).
It would have been nice if the more visual element descriptions and samples had been in color - shades of gray are nice, but it would be a lot easier to follow in color. Also, some of the figures look a bit dated - not that it takes away from the content. |
| | CSS in All Its Warts and Glory, 2006-11-28 | | Reviewer rating: | |
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When Eric wrote the first edition of this book way back at the turn of the millenium, he proposed to "explain CSS in all its warts and glory." For CSS enthusiasts at the time, that was an advance -- every other author and Web lecturer fixated on the warts!
Six years have changed a lot. CSS, as a tool of modern Web professionals, has moved way beyond its former role as window-dressing for HTML. HTML (and XML) work in partnership with CSS to produce the most logical and yet most flexible page structure that defines current Web document standards.
The book has just about all you need as both a reference and basic how-to. Eric concentrates on the CSS properties and techniques that have real support among browsers. This increases the practical value of the book. Discussion of CSS selectors has been expanded to reflect the growing support for more powerful (and complex!) selector syntax. Most pages have multiple illustrations to clarify text. The book has updated information related to Firefox and IE7.
One disappointment was the sparse coverage of print media styles. Admittedly, browser support of print styling is itself disappointing but a lot of printing is done from the browser and there are still lots of things we can do, as Eric shows in some of his other writings.
Eric's ongoing experience with key real-life Web issues and design knowledge binds the material together and makes this a superior book.
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