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Complete CSS Guide -Cascading Style Sheets- Reference

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written inHTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
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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.

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:

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Customer Reviews (38)

Well Worth Purchasing
From someone who has worked around HTML, XHTML & CSS since 1995, I have to admit that even I learned from this book. Even with expertise you sometimes forget the basics, and knowing the basics is a requirement. Often professionals even need to touch up on the basics, and this book I found immensely helpful to remind myself and even teach me aspects I had missed or forgotten. Reading this book has actually made me realise that some of my old habits in structuring my documents is wrong, lengthy and I have actually reduced my own coding time after reading this book.

For any beginner, you will be quite the intermediate after reading. Any professionals, it never hurts to go over the basics and even obtain industry standards to assist some old habits that really are not within the best interest of design. Being self taught like many within the design industry, it is easy to miss some understanding that you don't learn from experience, but assist in making coding that little bit easier.

Indispensable
For working front-end developers, this is The Bible. We keep three or four copies around the office for reference. Couldn't live without it.

Thorough guide to CSS
Eric Meyer is considered an authority on HTML and CSS issues and this book certainly demonstrates why.He takes every element of CSS and defines context and specifics with an amazing amount of detail, but supremely well organized so that it's actually readable in a conversational way rather than a textbook or reference book way.

If you are planning to regularly deal with ALL of the ramifications of designing web sites, this book is a must-have to provide a thorough foundation.If you only want to make a web page for something simple, or just once in your life, this may be too much information, but reading it may cause you to want to do more with your simple web page!

The book is dense with text and has relatively few diagrams, and some of the examples take some study to understand what they're trying to convey, but if you're a serious student of CSS, Meyer's text rewards you for your effort.

Great reference
With the number of style options available, it is easy to forget or be unsure of some of them.And, proper usage of same can be problematic.This book is chock-full of the information I need.

CSS The Definitive Guide Review
This is a well-organized reference for CSS2 -- clear and easy to unerstand -- and an excellent accompaniment to a basic to intermediate course on CSS design. It has chapters explaining the how and why, as well as a comprehensive property reference list in alpha order. ... Read more

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Good reference book
This book is very helpful. It is easy to find things in this book, and the authors do a good job of explaining things.

Another fine OReilly book
I am taking an HTML class and this book is a great reference, as handy as the online W3C pages, which I use regularly.

Happy with it.
I have purchased many O'Reily books in the past and have been very happy with them.In fact, I will purchase an O'Reily book above all others unless there is a bad review.Maybe I am just a OBC type person.Anyways, so far the book seems good as a reference, well laid out, comprehensive.

HTML complete guide
If you are interested in learning HTML, or CSS, this is a great book to learn from, well worth the read, very informative, and written to understand.

Good desk reference
Since my mind is cluttered with 40 years-worth of programming languages, and I'm going between Java, JavaScript, XML, XSL, HTML, and CSS constantly, I need something to grab and lookup those things I may be unsure of.This book does the trick nicely. ... Read more

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For readers who want to design Web pages thatload quickly, are easy to update, accessible to all, work on allbrowsers and can be quickly adapted to different media, thiscomprehensive guide represents the best way to go about it. By focusingon the ways the two languages--XHTML and CSS--complement each other,Web design pro Patrick Griffiths provides the fastest,most efficient way of accomplishing specific Web design tasks. With Webstandards best practices at its heart, it outlines how to do things theright way from the outset, resulting in highly optimized web pages, ina quicker, easier, less painful way than users could hope for! Splitinto 10 easy-to-follow chapters such as Text, Images, Layout, Lists,and Forms, and coupled with handy quick-reference XHTML tag and CSSproperty appendixes, HTML Dog is the perfect guide andcompanion for anyone wanting to master these languages. Readers canalso see the lessons in action with more than 70 online examplesconstructed especially for the book.

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Not for beginners
HTML Dog: The Best Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS is clearly a quality book, but...
- The fact is that for someone like me who last looked at HTML over a decade ago it was often confusing. The author is clearly on a campaign for purity and for using solely the latest standards, so he commonly spends time advising the reader that some older mode of coding is bad and should not be done. As a result when trying to integrate the lessons with existing code problems arise. The book appears to be quite what it claims to be, a "best practice guide" rather than a tutorial for those of us who need to start from zero.

Pretty good!
Loved getting the book- it was in amazing mint condition to start with, and I think this book is one of the most awesome books if you want to learn more about HTML and CSS! Go for it! :D

had higher expectations
I was disappointed. 3 stars.

The content of this book is good, not great. I think the author should cut the lengthy explanations and arguments short. Feed us the beef please. But he knows what he is doing and the external resources (especially the author's website) are very helpful.

The book introduces the concepts of content structuring and then content presentation. Every chapter (save the first one) follows the pattern: structure, then presentation.

Was there a full CSS 2.1 reference?? a full XHTML1.1 reference (ok the author gave an excuse, saying he removed the tags that were not really structuring tags, but rather presentation ones)?? Because if there were, I wouldn't have gave this book 3 stars.

You see, I got this book because of the appendices. I don't like to have to find my way through Google search results (most of them which got on the first page by using marketing and SEO tricks anyway...). So I thought this book was the deal. I was wrong.

I still had to ask my friend Google questions like "how precisely are the values set for the background-position property?" The author did not bother explaining that or point to where you should find that.

This book is too superficial, just like a tutorial.

Beginner book but very good
This is a great book for beginning HTML and CSS quick and easy to read also with an accompanying website. I find myself referring to it all the time. I've read it in full 3 times now just for heck of it. I really would also recommend the "Head First" titles. I swear by those to start learning in a particular subject.

Not for a beginner
This book serves as a great reference, but if you don't know what css and xhtml is leave this book alone. The book only has about 100 pages of material. He goes through the differnt aspects of xhtml and css, but if you have never heard what he is talking about its very hard to understand. I would say this book is meant as a reference NOT!! a leraning guide. ... Read more

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It provides great concepts and better coding practices
I have a good understanding of the basic usage of HTML & CSS. As someone who is relatively new to HTML & CSS this book filled in the gaps. The author presents great concepts and comprehensive descriptions about approach, methods, and application. I needed this book to supplement my current developing process. This book stands apart from all my other HTML & CSS references. It does much more than provide syntax with basic descriptions. It also provides history, IE handling, detailed methodologies, and more.

For the Thinking Stylist
There are a plethora of books that provide step-by-step tutorials on CSS styling, but the strength of Henicks' work is in speaking more substantially about the why's and wherefore's of working (seriously and professionally) with HTML and CSS (chapters 1, 4, and 5 in particular, especially "The Four Habit's of Effective Stylists"). I gravitated to this book--even though I don't fall within the author's descriptions of the Ideal Reader, being a lapsed HTML-CSS developer now firmly entrenched in user experience design--by virtue of its compact yet expository approach to describing how developers can learn to practice standards-friendly, effective website styling. While I may not be a practicing developer, I wanted a focused guide on the theoretical intricacies of CSS that kept in view the larger context of user experience as well, including web accessibility.

Yes, the writing is dense and definitely assumes familiarity with DTDs, elements, selectors, et. al.--the book is really best suited to web developers with experience, as the author makes clear in the introduction. Henick gets to the heart of CSS styling and its gnarly problems very directly, with no hand holding, so be prepared for taking your own time to validate and explore the characteristics and behaviors of CSS properties he describes. Happily, he takes the time to introduce relevant HTML5 developments and the problems and gains they introduce in web development. Many of the charts, while quite technical, do a lot of the thinking for you as well, making this a good quick guide to things like column ordering based on float/margin property/value assignments.If you are a web stylist interested in plumbing the depths of HTML+CSS, and going beyond merely executing web designs, this will be a welcome addition your library.

A great guide to, well, the good bits of web development
This book is not a beginner's guide to web development, so those who purchase the book expecting to have their hands held through the basics be disappointed. "The Good Parts" is targeted at an experienced web developer who already has a solid knowledge of HTML and CSS and wants to take their skills to the next level. The focus of the book is on providing specific tips to take advantage of the various advanced features of HTML and CSS to really "kick things up a notch" with one's development.

By necessity, the book jumps around a bit (like I said early, if you want a thorough survey of HTML for beginners, look elsewhere). Chapters cover creating effective structure to your code, advanced CSS layout, various page elements (tables, multimedia, and forms) and typography. The typography chapter is especially useful, as this is an often abused part of web design and development. This book also has a very useful chapter called "The Bad Parts" focusing on the necessary evils of development, including dealing with Internet Explorer (especially IE6) and various inane portions of the standards.

I would recommend this book as a great reference in any professional web coder's library.

The Good Parts, Indeed
I am a graphic designer who gets off on both right and left brain activities. I like working on code. I am not a developer, but I do enjoy knowing how things work.

With that said, I have been struggling for the past few years to say with confidence that I am a web designer. At age 31, I was starting to feel obsolete because I just couldn't wrap my brain around HTML and CSS enough to feel that I really owned it. I could edit bits and pieces of things. I could grasp some general concepts. But all in all, I was lost. I could play checkers with code, but I could not build things.

I was at that point when this book came to me.

This book contained the context (the why, and the how) behind the disparate jibbly-bits floating in my head behind a website.

This is not a book that will walk you through a bunch of step-by-step tutorials. Those tutorials don't help me anyway. Design and development are not linear processes.

What was helpful (for me) was feeling like I had an expert with a willingness to speak above my head *just a little bit* and pull me along into a foreign language. It's not an easy read, but it was something I could curl up with on a couch with some coffee and dive into. Did it hurt my brain? Yes. But in that sense that I was really learning something. And that feels good.

I highly recommend this book for others like me who are transitioning from being a print designer to being a web designer who knows how web sites work.

an animal guide lemon
Read Randall Degges' review; it's spot on, so I won't repeat.I bought this book in spite of his review and regret it.

This was my 4th animal guide book.The other three (perl, python, php) were all about explaining what to do and helping you get your hands dirty.This book seems like the author had a late night rant about web standards and got it published FAST.There are tons of free sites that teach/show/explain how to use CSS and HTML.This book doesn't really do any of those things.If you want to find the contents of this book check the html forums.The best thing in the book is the use of the phrase "iframes are a kind of poor man's AJAX".

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ABOUT THE BOOKHTML, XHTML, CSS and XML by example explains how to manually create web pages using HTML, XHTML, CSS, and XML technologies. This book is based on W3 Consortium specifications and details how the most commonly used browsers implement these recommendations.Designed as a useful reference and guide, this book provides complete code sources, high-resolution screen captures and more than 300 descriptive examples to aid the developer. Each feature of HTML, XHTML, CSS, and XML is presented, analyzed and exemplified by emphasizing the purpose for which that feature was designed and implemented. As well,the full range of possible attribute and property values is detailed with complete examples.This book also presents detailed solutions explaining how the developer can integrate HTML, XHTML, CSS, and XML to create professional web pages using these complementary Internet technologies.Category: Web Development/HTMLUser Level: Intermediate through advanced ... Read more

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Could be more expecific, good for intermediate level
I was trying to learn xml and xslt. Its major fault is that it doesn't describe what each tag means. is more of an intermediate level read, so good not great. ... Read more

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The shipping is a little slow but the item is perfect but also at a reasonable price.

Excellent shipping time and condition!
Book was rcv'd exactly as described by seller, excellent condition, and rcv'd very quickly!Was hesitant to ordera used book as Ive had bad experience in the past, but this bok really was like new!

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Once you discovered the dynamic, sophisticated sites you could create using DHTML and CSS, you wanted more--more interaction, more accessibility, more animation, more interesting combinations of text and graphics, more everything! This book provides the key. By picking up where his enormously popular Visual QuickStart Guide left off, best-selling author Jason Cranford Teague explores the advanced DHTML and CSS programming techniques you need to take your Web sites to the next level. Covering everything from standards and accessibility to separating content from style; creating multicolumn layouts; combining text and graphics; creating controls, menus, forms, and special effects; working with other Web languages; and much more, this friendly, task-based volume is a must-have if you're serious about Web design. Step-by-step instructions and a strong visual format make complex topics understandable, even fun--especially when coupled with the loads of tips, screen shots and practical, working examples that Jason has provided.

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Not advanced and misses the point
I was greatly disappointed with this book. I have bought many other visual quickpro books which have been great.

This book is not advanced. The examples in this book do not separate content, presentation and function.

Javascript should be separated from the content of the page, not mashed into the (X)HTML as was typically done in early web sites. The javascript hooks in the code examples are invariably hard-coded into onclick=".." attributes. While that may work fine at first, just try updating pages full of onclick attributes and you'll be looking for a better way.

CSS should be used to separate the presentation from the content of the page as much as possible. It seems that the author has 'divitis': there are so many nested divs in some of the examples it's hard to follow the markup.

The book gives lip service to accessibility, but does not follow the concept through: many of the examples will not degrade gracefully in non-javascript enabled browsers. Dynamic html pages _can_ play well with all browsers: this is advanced javascript. If you follow the examples in this book, however, you'll be discriminating against a large part of your audience.

You will get better information in:
For css:
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)
For javascript:
ppk on JavaScript, 1/e (VOICES)

Outstanding book - a must have for your library
When I first got interested in DHTML I purchased both of Teague's books on DHTML and CSS. They have proved to be invaluable. His writing is easy to understand. The format is easy to follow and consistent throughout. He uses just enough illustrations to demonstrate the subject. His knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS is exemplary and the examples used in the book are pretty much bug/error free (unlike many books I've read that contain code). If you're just getting started with DHTML, get both of Teague's books. You won't regret it.

Cookbook
This is the sequel to the excellent DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web. It is merely a cookbook of techniques, whereas the first book is an outstanding introduction to an advanced subject.

This book is worth leafing through to find items of interest but it does not advance the state of the art in the way the first book did.

Good but not what I was expecting...
I was a little surprised that the one chapter on Advanced DHTML techniques could have been titled: "Intro to JavaScript."I was disappointed because there was little on advanced CSS layout (1 chapter) with examples that were difficult to follow.

If you want a book teaching JavaScript and PHP integration this book is for you.If you want a book on advanced CSS techniques that you might want to look elsewhere.

the best tutorial yet
Mr. Teague has written an instructional book which, in my opinion is the most useful and understandable coding book I have ever read. From the introductory pages right through to the appendices this book is presented in an easy, step by step format. Mr. Teague's tutorial style makes this book an incredibly useful reference source for even more advanced web coders. Unlike other web design books I own, DHTML & CSS Advanced is well organized, with clear illustrations and colour coded snippets. The inclusion of a section about working with databases enables the reader to add more function to his or her web designs and offer more the site's visitors.

With so many coding options and the need to have a site appear properly to the majority of current browsers, it can be difficult to keep web coding effective and clean. Mr. Teague shows his readers how to accomplish this. I think the one thing which impressed me the most about this book is the effort Mr. Teague put into making sure his explanations were clear and concise. His instructions can do nothing other than add to the functionality of the reader's web coding and design. By taking the reader through web designing from concept to publication, Mr. Teague accomplishes what the cover of his book promises: extending skills in a fast and efficient way.

Unlike many other design books on the market, Mr. Teague's manual does not include a cd-rom containing all of the code snippets used throughout the book. I for one am glad he (for whatever reason) didn't include one. This forces the student to type out the snippets in the book in order to learn what the author is teaching. In my opinion, this helps the person learn faster, and to pay attention to what he or she is doing. This helps to reinforce the basics of site coding in the designer's mind, and eventually clean effective sites on the web will be the result.

The quick reference tables and glossaries are infinitely useful and cover a wide range of design coding. DHTML and CSS Advanced will be one of the first books I recommend to new designers. Mr. Teague has a winning style of tutorial writing, and I look forward to reading further publications by him. ... Read more

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?HTML, XHTML, & CSS For the Absolute Beginner? provides beginner level programmers with an entry level introduction to HTML, XHTML and CSS. This book serves as a primer for client-side web development. To make learning fun, the book uses a games-based instructional approach that provides working examples that demonstrate how HTML, XHTML and CSS can be applied to the development of web pages and sites. ?HTML, XHTML, & CSS For the Absolute Beginner? is a fun and easy way for a beginner to master web development through the creation of computer games. ... Read more

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Some reviewers are not really reviewing the books
The previous reviewer, Midwest Book Review, is not a real reviewer. He has over 56,000 reviews, yes that's thousands, and all are five star.
Methinks we have a bookseller here, trying to sway those of us who look to this site for real reviews, not sly sales pitches.
I don't know if this book on html and css coding is good or not, but I know that the score is being manipulated by the so called reviewer mentioned above.

Outdated
In the CSS part, it says "Due to lack of universal browser support for CSS 2.0, this book's focus in on CSS
1.0 and it is strongly recommended that you do so as well". That's of course wrong. All the major browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera, Chrome, Safari) supports CSS 2 very well. That in itself makes this book outdated. I only give it two stars because it can teach some HTML and the basics of CSS.

A 'must' for any computer library, promising lasting interest
HTML, XHTML, and CSS for the Absolute Beginner is a 'must' for any serious computer library: it provides tips on all the foundation languages key to web page development on the Internet and shows how to control and manage the presentation of content using Cascading Style Sheets. Source code for all projects and graphics and additional resources round out a tutorial on how to use basic HTML and XHTML to organize web pages and work with links and images. The result is a 'must' for any computer library, promising lasting interest. ... Read more

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As our Internet devices become more portable, it's becoming increasingly essential that Web pages be designed in a way such that users can access sitesclearly and effectively from a variety of remote devices and Web browsers. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style of Web language that uses common printingand display terminology to allow HTML and XML authors to control the way Web pages look, regardless of the browsing device. Styling Web Pages with CascadingStyle Sheets will cover the entire CSS2 specification, which was released from the World Wide Web consortium in May, 1998. Through the use of hands-on projects,code samples, and screen shots, users will create style sheets in real-world exercises and master the skills to create effective style sheets on the Web. ... Read more

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Is it worth buying?
Pretty good books as Web Programming books go, but do you need it? If you are taking a course and this is the text book then buy it, as good as any available.

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Good textbook
I teach a community college course in CSS and chose this book over many others after an agonizing review. Not necessarily because it is the absolute best book out there, but because it is well organized (at least for the 8 week course I teach), starts from square zero, and covers CSS well enough, with decent explanations and short tutorials to practice skills, and, from an instructor's point of view, there are a host of teaching materials that can come with the book to ease the burden of coming up with everything from scratch. The number of errors is kept down to a tolerable level too, and it is recent enough to have Netscape 6 info. It has a supporting web site as well, the "online companion", at http://www.course.com/downloads/webwarrior/css/index.htm. No other book out there offered all that. If you are not a teacher, you will probably find the book to be pretty solid, but you also may be able to find more knowledge for a cheaper price with another book, such as those written by Callihan, Pence, Teague, or Lie and Bos, which, for one reason or another didn't fit into my requirements for teaching this course but impressed me with other aspects. Negatives with this book for me include 1) uppercase html, 2) less than professionally inspiring examples, 3) price. ... Read more

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Great Comprehensive Book
This is a great book to get a broad perspective of the types of mobile applications that are out there. There are many ways to develop for mobile and this book gives you a good overview of many if not all of them.

Not so practical techniques
Original review written by Pasquale Granato, JUG Lugano, [...]


First of all, let's clear the field from a possible misunderstanding: this book is not about general mobile design and development but it is about web mobile development. The author states a precise, despite arguable, opinion that brutally said is: do not code native applications but prefer as much as you can web applications. This statement is largely discussed across the book and everyone can make up his own opinion about this. Mine is that currently times are not mature to consider to write just web applications both because mobile browser are not powerful enough (on average) to assure a smooth experience on all devices and because of the lack of a good way to make money from your web app.
The first three chapters of the book are a really good introduction to the history of mobile, to the mobile current status and to the reasons that should drive an approach to the mobile development. These chapters are a well written recap of the status of the art and present a lot of data useful to understand the global situation. Unfortunately the book is printed in black and white and several pie-charts and graphs are pretty much impossible to read.
The central part of the book, chapters from four to ten, is devoted to design issues and, despite the lack of an in-depth examination of some subjects, offers a pretty good survey of the topic.
The final part of the book is slightly more technical covering topics such as XHTML-MP, CSS, HTML5, device adaptation, etc. The problem here is that there is nothing really practical and all remains at an introductory level. To give you an example, a capital topic in device adaptation like Media Queries is covered in half a page with just a trivial example. Furthermore the author seems to be unaware of things like XwapProfile or UAProf (that is probably a obsolete and unreliable method but deserve at least a notation).
My biggest complain is anyway about the author's obsession for the iPhone. The Apple's jewel is referenced continuously and always with great glorification: the word iPhone recurs 99 times in the book and out of the 115 pictures in the book as many as 37 depict an iPhone. An entire chapter is devoted to iPhone web applications development even though most of the concepts presented here are common to other modern devices.
This is overall a decent introductory book, if you are completely new to the field, and it's packed with many good advices but do not expect much from the practical techniques promised by the title.

Should be titled "Information Architecture for Mobile"
The bulk of this book (say 80%) is a discussion of information architecture retooled for the mobile world. A useful discussion, but it is NOT why I bought a book on mobile development. I expected a book that discussed in great detail, mobile development.

Skip to chapter 11, 'Mobile Web Development' to get a taste. Chapter 12, 'iPhone Web Apps' also has a few nuggets. Chapter 15, the oddly named and placed 'Supporting Devices' touches on setting up a test and dev environment.

Technical details for server configuration, local test/dev environment configuration, dev methods and techniques etc. are absent. This is NOT a technical reference or guide. It IS, a good executive 'summary'.

Also, although it makes every attempt to appear agnostic, the book is clearly iPhone-centric. This caused me to change my rating from two stars to one star.

A must-read for anyone in mobile
Many people would pay for the information Brian Fling has assembled here. Project managers, and even clients need to read and digest this book before starting a mobile initiative. You have no idea how gigantic and varied the mobile industry is until you've heard it from Brian Fling.

Good book good deal
This is a good book for mobile technology. Easy to read and understand. And the seller sent this book very fast. Very good deal. ... Read more

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Brilliant HTML & CSS is a visual quick reference book that teaches all that you need to know to create clean, forward-looking, standards-compliant, accessible Web sites using HTML & CSS. It will give you a solid grounding on the theory, coding skills, and best practices needed to use HTML & CSS to build sophisticated web pages a complete reference for the beginner and intermediate user. SummaryBrilliant HTML and CSS provides beginning Web designers and developers with the necessary theory, coding skills, and best practices to create clean, forward-looking, standards-compliant, accessible Web sites. The text reinforces the important distinction between structure and presentation and emphasizes the proper application of HTML tags and CSS properties from the opening chapter. Part I focuses on structural development, while Part II addresses presentation topics, and Part III offers advice about common design and navigation problems and the rationale behind their solutions. Upon finishing this book, a reader with no prior experience in Web design and development will be able to build sophisticated static pages. (An ideal companion to this book would be Brilliant JavaScript.)In keeping with the Brilliant series, the book uses a highly visual, task-based approach to achieve its objectives.Brilliant Features * Detailed index and troubleshooting guide to help you find exactly what you need to know * Each task is presented on one or two pages * Numbered steps guide you through each task or problem * Numerous screenshots illustrate each step * See Also boxes point you to related tasks and information in the book * Did you know ?...sections alert you to relevant expert tips, tricks and advice ... Read more

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Readable reference for using CSS
The //CSS Cookbook// is a hefty tome, but it is both thorough and easy to read, making it a comprehensive guide to writing Cascading Style Sheets for beginning to intermediate coders. Schmitt has an engaging and encouraging style that will push anyone interested in using CSS to try the exercises and examples without fear of failure. The content is flexible in that you can choose to integrate CSS into your websites completely, or pick and choose from smaller packets of code. If there is a downside to the //CSS Cookbook// it is that while it gives enough information to become proficient at CSS, it offers no hints for moving forward in other facets of coding, such as PHP. But this is a handy guide for obtaining a foundation in CSS.

Reviewed by: Angela Tate

A 'must' for any CSS or web programmer's collection
The third updated edition of CSS Cookbook is a winner, offering recipes showing how to customize a solution to meet web design and programming needs. Hundreds of recipe examples show how to format web pages and pack in code samples and details on special effects and enhancements. A 'must' for any CSS or web programmer's collection.

Web Design
I couldn't give it a five star as I have not gone through the entire book, but Amazon would not quit sending these Make A Review emails so here I am.I do like the book and what I've read so far is top notch.Lots of help, but this is not a beginner book.You need some help with learning CSS before picking this one up.That said I would recommend it as a useful tool if you are into making web sites and pages.

Excellent for bringing HTML Old Timers up to speed with CSS
I have been designing and building HTML pages since mid-1994 and I am amazed at how much coding has changed in the past 15 years.

Back then building websites was pretty straight forward, you used tables to create columns and filled them up with text and graphics. Web designs were very basic, fixed width was the norm and there was not much of a difference between the two most popular browsers of the era, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer 3.0.

Starting in the early 2000s, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) dramatically changed web design and page coding. CSS enabled designers and coders to build more attractive and interesting websites. However, coding pages and then making them work in various browsers - like IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, Mozilla 2.5, Mozilla 3.0 and Chrome - became far more challenging than just laying out tables. Making the learning curve even steeper was the popularity of JavaScript and more recently AJAX, which is the combination of CSS and JavaScript.

Many "old-time" coders tried to stick with table-based layouts, but it was easy to see that basic HTML would not longer cut it and CSS was the way to go. I stopped using tables and educated myself on how to use CSS.

In the early 2000s, I purchased several CSS books, including the first edition of CSS Cookbook. That book turned out to be the most useful because O'Reilly's "Cookbook " format is based on question and answer rather than the other CSS books, which focused on basic tutorials.

With the CSS Cookbook, I was able to look up "How to build a two column page," which would provide me with sample code as opposed to going through a basic CSS tutorial. I was able to learn quickly.

I was happy to discover that the third edition of CSS Cookbook has come up and it has been completely updated with how to create rounded corners with JavaScript and using Lightbox to display images as well as a chapter on how to use JQuery. It will also provide you with the basic CSS instructions on how to make one, two and three column layouts and how to set up floats.

If you are new to CSS, you should consider buying another CSS book, but if you know basic HTML and CSS and want to bring your skills up to the next level, I highly recommend reading this book.

Not for Beginners
Let's get right to it: This book is great but it's not - I repeat - it's not for beginners.You better be comfortable with CSS or you'll simply be wasting your money. The author frequently uses something completely new then introduces the item further in the book.Other times no explanation is given.I've to constantly search [...] just to understand what the author is trying to explain.He throws out codes with no idea how to use it.I was forced to return the book. ... Read more

Product Description
* An expanded, updated, and retitled edition of HTML Bible, examining HTML, XHTML-a set of extensions to HTML to make it more like XML-and cascading style sheets (CSS), which provide a simple way to add consistent formatting to HTML Web documents
* Focusing on reader feedback and changing industry trends, this new edition is a major overhaul that addresses the extensive changes in Web development
* Shows readers the best, most efficient way to use HTML and examines which peripheral technologies are worth learning for the long run
* Features "before and after" pictures that show the results of improved Web page coding
* Offers continued coverage of key topics, including site administration, dynamic data-driven pages, and many others, in addition to new sections on hot new topics such as blogs and content management ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

Great HTML information
This up to date HTML coding book is a good one. It gives you an inside look at HTML4 and also goes into some of the key elements that HTML 5 will hold. I am pleased with the book, and I feel you would be also. Anyone wanting to learn HTML 4, and be able to write code, using CSS, and HTML 4 and going into 5 will benefit from the information provided.

disappointing
I bought a dutch translation of this book, and was rather disappointed. I wanted to learn more about xhtml, to be able to work on my own website, and not having to ask a friend for every little change I wanted to make.
In my opinion the book clearly lacks good editing work. For instance on parts where certain elements are introduced, the authors start elaborating on styles. This complicates things a lot, because explaining styles should be reserved for the chapters that are devoted to it.
Where it says in the first chapter that layout and content should be separated, they give examples where there is layout mixed with the content. This doesn't make it easy to develop my own writing of html.
The meaning of document type definitions didn't become clear to me, because they use different type definitions throughout the text. So as a beginner I can't follow any more...

I'll do my best to go learning with this book, but if you still have to decide which one to buy...

Need a Web Site Building Companion You Can Grow With?
If you are a complete novice at building web sites and you feel a little frightened about even beginning to learn, there are several more basic books available to help get you started on this adventure.However once a few rather simple lessons are learned and you are gazing in joy at your first attempts at web pages, Schafer's book is your next step.He also covers all of the basics for beginners but those chapters are useful more or less as a review rather than a starting point.His coverage of HTML is not offered in a hand-holding fashion for the meek but rather in a straight-forward, "here's how to do it" format.His presentations and explanations are perfect though for everyone who eventually comes to the realization that they are not "dummies" and who want a more grown-up approach to learning basic web site construction.Schafer's conversational style helps those who have a grasp of the basics and is also the book they will continue to use throughout their web site creation careers: HTML, XHTML, AND CSS BIBLE, Fourth Edition is a long-term reference tool.The one drawback to the book is that it lacks any color to help brighten some of the many examples he creates.However, this loss is offset by the affordable price of the book and in the long run does not detract from its usefulness.For anyone who wants an accessible text they can grow with, Schafer's book is their answer.

Must Have for Web Developers
We've been in the web development business for over 11 years and have watched so much change in that time. We're often asked what tools are vital to learning how to work in our field. Many from the 'bible' series books have been on our office shelves over the years. This one is the latest to actually take up residence on each of our desks as a regular reference tool. Buy it, use it, use those nifty post-it flags & highlighters all over it, and when the pages start falling out, tape them back in & keep using it. As for the bad reviews - my suggestion is that if you're advanced in HTML or looking for advanced techniques in CSS there are books for that, too. It takes an entire library of reference books to stay up with all the changes & aspects of this industry, and as you grow beyond the levels found here add to your collection, but this one really is important to your library!

This book rocks my socks off
It's easy to read, full of useful information, and up to date.It is well written and has great examples.


I don't know what more to say.If you are interested in using HTML/XHTML or CSS, I'd say this is a very valuable book to own.


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Product Description
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day, Sixth Edition is the latest edition of the original worldwide bestseller. The entire book has been thoroughly revised and refined to include new detailed coverage of HTML5, the next major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. Work on the HTML5 specification is still ongoing, but parts of HTML5 are already being implemented in new versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

There are much better books out there
This book is not as well written as some, taking a long time to introduce what the internet is and in general assuming you know absolutely nothing, rather than getting to current practices.Although it is updated recently, it feels outdated.

I would recommend the "HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide" by Elizabeth Castro as a clear, colorful alternative that helps you spend less time reading and easily reference key topics."Stylin' With CSS" by Charles-Wyke Smith is also good.

I had to buy these books for classes and will definitely sell this book and keep the others once the classes are over.

Suggested:
Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (2nd Edition)
HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, MobiPocket

Great book for website design
This is a good text to learn this technology.It is also good for updating your skills with the introduction of HTML 5. My husband is using this as a textbook for his website design class so he can learn what I do as a web designer.While I don't agree with some of the items mentioned, I'm willing to "agree to disagree" on those points.

This text will last you a long time for learning what it contains.Learn one skill (HTML), then let it sink in your life.Add CSS, then JavaScript, PHP, etc. as you feel comfortable with the preceding skills.Trying to learn all of this all at once can be overwhelming. ... Read more

Product Description

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example allows you to learn the fundamentals of CSS by taking you through small, gradual steps. It provides examples using CSS in "real world" scenarios. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example follows a logical, linear teaching style that will ultimately have you using CSS to utilize more control over the appearance and styling of Web pages.

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Customer Reviews (19)

Good beginner's book
This book is extremely simplistic in its examples. It does provide a good base knowledge of how CSS should be implemented and some good examples of functions. That bieng said it does not address browser compatability much at all, it favors Internet Explorer (which is great) but as a result several of the examples which are hybrid CSS versions fail in a Mozilla browser.

If you're looking for something to understand CSS and what it is: this book is great. As a technical reference it is not that useful.

DRM blues
I have not read this book yet.I bought it as an ADOBE eBook.I am sure it is probably very good.My disapointment is that it is DSM ("digital security management"? - I think)YOU CANNOT TRANSFER IT TO YOUR POCKET PDA as a workable file in ADOBE format.I did not see that anywhere when I made the purchase. Perhaps I overlooked it...don't you.

Great References
I already knew the basics of CSS when I purchased this but wanted a reference manual. I haven't had a question that I could not find an answer for in this book.

If you're just learning, then this is also a great book. It really is "by example" and it's great that you can get the code files off his web site and then just work with the different CSS examples to see how you can control formatting.

I recommend this book without hesitation for people new or familiar with CSS.

great book for those new to CSS
I have been easing into CSS for a few months now. I mainly get my information from websites and tutorials. This book helped me SO MUCH. In the fist two chapters my eyes were opened to things I had already done but didn't understand why they worked or didn't work. It is great for anyone new to CSS and feeling a little confused.

Great for newbies!
If you need a book that starts from the square one - this is it!Easy to understand and it takes you through the process step by step. ... Read more