CSS: The Definitive Guide
by Eric A. Meyer
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Author: Eric A. MeyerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-14
ISBN: 0596527330
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Book Review: Acts as both a good tutorial and a good reference on CSS
Summary: 5 Stars
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
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