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These are books I highly recommend about Cascading Style Sheets. The first is probably the best you can get: Not just beautifully made and with all aspects of Cascading Style Sheets (including version 2) treated, it's actually written by two of the architects of Cascading Style Sheets: they know what they're talking about, and explain it very well, too. |
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Cascading Style Sheets, Second Edition: Designing for the Web
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If you're buying a single book about Style Sheets, this is the one to get. You can't get any
better information than from the horse's mouth: Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos are the people at the
W3C responsible for actually defining the CSS standard.
The book covers CSS1 as well as CSS2, and indicates some differences in Browser support, too.It book is well written, gives
much background information about typography and layout besides the nitty-gritty of using style sheets, and is also beautifully designed;
a pleasure to browse through and be inspired. There is a supporting web site with some excerpts from the book (including source code and
examples so you can just copy and paste to try them out) for the 1st edition; I haven't found one for the 2nd edition yet, so you should
use this page for now.
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Cascading Style Sheets 2.0: Programmer's Reference
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If all you need is a reference, this would be a good choice. It's more recent than Meyer's book
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (which is not a reference!); this covers the complete
CSS2 standard, and has compatibility and bug information for Netscape 4/6, IE 4/5/5.5
and Opera 3/4/5.
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Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation
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Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals
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DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Another recent book. If you like the format of the Visual Quickstart Guides, this would be the book
for you. It will certainly help if you are a visual rather than a textual learner. Otherwise, it's pretty much a toss-up between this book
and the book by Dan Livingston above, though this book covers the material in rather more detail.
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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
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The book gives a complete, detailed review of CSS1 and CSS positioning, as well as a 'preview' of CSS2. What this means though, is that the book (published in May 2000) may have been 'definitive' at the time of publication, but it no longer is. The formula is a good one, but a new edition with equally detailed coverage of CSS2 (which already became a W3C Recommendation in May 1998) and information about support in more (not just newer) browsers is badly needed. (Work on that is in progress, but there is no ETA.) That said, it may be a good book to start learning about CSS because of its practical approach.
Martina Kosloff
commented:
I still learn from this book (as from the Lie/Bos book). For me, both books complement each other, and when I'm trying to grasp a problem I read about it in both books. That usually helps clear up things pretty fast.
Often if you have two books about a topic you can't shake the feeling that the authors (or at least one of them) took
liberties with the text of the other book. Not in this case. And that is why I have both and - in case of fire - would save both :)
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Cascading Style Sheets Complete
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HTML Stylesheet Sourcebook
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This book is getting old by now, but still available. Another useful book about style sheets and how to apply them. It contains an extensive tutorial, sample style sheets, and a detailed language reference.
The author runs a supporting web site which is more up-to-date than the book with regard to browser versions. Here you can find the examples and references from the book, and even better: a useful list of browser bugs in CSS implementation together with workarounds -- if they exist. The list of CSS-Aware software is dated even though it contains updates from the printed version: the latest HomeSite version mentioned is 2.5.
For a more recent version of this material, look at The XHTML 1.0 Language and Design Sourcebook
Brett Merkey commented:
The book is solid with clear lists of do's and dont's. Oddly, sometimes illustrations are 2 or
more pages away from the text associated with them. But the explanations are often well illustrated. One weakness:
concentration on Netscape4 and IE3. Looks like IE4 was just coming out when he wrote it. Even so, his code examples
include lots of comments [like] /* this is done for Netscape4 bug */.
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