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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.
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
About the Author
Eric A. Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and web standards. A widely read author, he is also the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting (www.complexspiral.com), which counts among its clients America Online; Apple Computer, Inc.; Wells Fargo Bank; and Macromedia, which described Eric as "a critical partner in our efforts to transform Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 into a revolutionary tool for CSS-based design."
Beginning in early 1994, Eric was the visual designer and campus web coordinator for the Case Western Reserve University web site, where he also authored a widely acclaimed series of three HTML tutorials and was Project Coordinator for the online version of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, the first encyclopedia of urban history published fully and freely on the Web.
Author of Eric Meyer on CSS and More Eric Meyer on CSS (New Riders), Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly), and CSS2.0 Programmer's Reference (Osborne/McGraw-Hill), as well as numerous articles for the O'Reilly Network, Web Techniques, and Web Review, Eric also created the CSS Browser Compatibility Charts and coordinated the authoring and creation of the W3C's official CSS Test Suite. He has lectured to a wide variety of organizations, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, the New York Public Library, Cornell University, and the University of Northern Iowa. Eric has also delivered addresses and technical presentations at numerous conferences, among them An Event Apart (which he cofounded), the IW3C2 WWW series, Web Design World, CMP, SXSW, the User Interface conference series, and The Other Dreamweaver Conference.
In his personal time, Eric acts as List Chaperone of the highly active css-discuss mailing list (www.css-discuss.org), which he cofounded with John Allsopp of Western Civilisation and which is now supported by evolt.org. Eric lives in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you've been led to believe. For nine years, he was the host of "Your Father's Oldsmobile," a Big Band-era radio show heard weekly on WRUW 91.1 FM in Cleveland.
You can find more detailed information on Eric's personal web page at http://www.meyerweb.com/eric.
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After you know what CSS is about, GET THIS BOOK,
By Canadian Baccon "damn what a good book" (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: CSS: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
Its a hefty book, but I think if you want to commit to using CSS as the powerhouse web code it is, than invest in it.I don't recommend it for people looking at CSS for the very first time. Its introduction is wordy and may discourage. To start, I recommend "HTML, XHTML and CSS Visual Quickstart Guide" by Elizabeth Castro for the basics in a quick to read format. But that book can't go into detail what it really takes for cross browser layout, floating,quirk modes, etc. Enter "CSS: The Deifinitive Guide". Written in Meyer's usual humour, it does in depth to explain HOW CSS works, not just 'type in this code and you get the following.' I think that is a very important, because unless you understand why CSS does what it does, you end up wasting time fiddling with the code till it looks right. But the code is present for your eyes for each example he distribs and he often offers up results to what can happen if you do the code incorrect. If you just want to use CSS to style text and basic elements in CSS, then this book is more than you need. But if you are interested in Standards and using CSS for liquid design, but find other resources claiming 'Liquid design, the EASY WAY!' is bull, then this book is for you! It -is- the 'Definitive guide' because Meyer leaves no stone unturned.
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a good but not definitive guide,
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This review is from: CSS: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
Since CSS is used in browsers, i would have welcome a comparative comparison of browser support between the different CSS functionality. This book look more like a CSS designer's guide : what they tough when designing the language. So it's browser agnostic and could have been more useful for the day to day programming.Update: I realize that what I wished for was the other book from Mr Meyer : CSS Pocket Reference.
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CSS in All Its Warts and Glory,
By Brett Merkey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: CSS: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
§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. § 24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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Definitely Definitive!,
By Joshua Benuck - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: CSS: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
CSS: The Definitive Guide details the ins and outs of the CSS specification. It is filled with numerous easy to follow examples. The illustrations that accompany the examples are invaluable as they allow you to easily compare the markup, the applied style sheets, and the results which greatly enhanced my understanding of the material. The humor included in the examples made me laugh more than once which is a welcome relief when tackling such a complex topic as cascading style sheets.This edition of the book covers version 2.1 of the CSS specification. The author routinely points out where the specification was unclear as well as how certain browsers violate the spec which really helps point out what style sheet authors need to watch out for when targeting certain browsers. This is information that is not in the specification and could take a lot of time to find out on your own. If you are wanting to learn all you can about how to enhance the visual presentation of your site, are wanting to learn more about the capabilities of CSS so you can see how to modify the look of sites you visit using reader style sheets, or just want to find out what all of the buzz surround cascading style sheets is about then I'd recommend this book. I do have to warn you though, the author leaves no corner unturned. He starts out slow with an introduction to cascading style sheets and what they bring to the table. The following chapters then delve head first into topic after topic. You can be sure that you will know the technology through and through by the time you are finished with the book, just be prepared to spend some time working through the material. The author has done a wonderful job bringing to life a subject that might otherwise be quite dry. The years of experience he shares in chapter after chapter has made me glad that I've added this book to my library. 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Not a Book on Website Design.,
By Anonymous Coward - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: CSS: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
This book is a reference, and quite an excellent one at that. Definitely complete (as the title implies).However, you won't really learn how to use CSS to design websites with it. This book is for people who already have a pretty good handle on website design. I guess a good analogy would be that you can't learn English from the Oxford Dictionary, but the Oxford can certainly benefit you once you already know the language. |
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