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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide 1st Edition

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is poised to make its mark on the Web. With good implementations in Internet Explorer 5.0 and Opera 3.6, and 100% support expected in Netscape's "Mozilla" browser, signs are that CSS is rapidly becoming a useful, reliable, and powerful tool for web authors.CSS is the W3C-approved method for enriching the visual presentation of web pages. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide offers a complete, detailed review of CSS1 and CSS positioning, as well as an overview of CSS2. Each property is explored in detail with a discussion of how each interacts with other properties. There is also information on how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation.This book is the first major title to cover CSS in a way that both acknowledges and describes current browser support, instead of simply describing the way things work in theory. It offers both web authors and scripters a comprehensive guide to using CSS effectively.Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide targets veteran web authors who have already invested thousands of hours in learning HTML and writing web pages and are wondering why they need to learn a brand new language of style. This book supplies those dubious but curious web authors with the information they need to easily implement CSS for their web site.This book also addresses an audience of novice web authors who are already straining to learn all of the tags and attributes of HTML and can benefit now from implementing CSS correctly instead of repeating the mistakes of the past.The author has extensive experience writing about pitfalls and interesting tricks in CSS. He is a member of the CSS&FP Working Group, coordinates the W3C's CSS1 Test Suite, remains active on CSS newsgroups, and edits Web Review's Style Sheets Reference Guide. He has built a widespread reputation as a CSS expert, particularly with regard to his understanding of the intricacies of browser support for CSS. He brings his knowledge and expertise to this book in the form of hints, workarounds, and many other tips for web authors.

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    May 11, 2000
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    English
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Cascading Style Sheets can put a great deal of control and flexibility into the hands of a Web designer--in theory. In reality, however, varying browser support for CSS1 and lack of CSS2 implementation makes CSS a very tricky topic. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide is a comprehensive text that shows how to take advantage of the benefits of CSS while keeping compatibility issues in mind.

The book is very upfront about the spotty early browser support for CSS1 and the sluggish adoption of CSS2. However, enthusiasm for the technology spills out of the pages, making a strong case for even the most skeptical reader to give CSS a whirl and count on its future. The text covers CSS1 in impressive depth--not only the syntactical conventions but also more general concepts such as specificity and inheritance. Frequent warnings and tips alert the reader to browser-compatibility pitfalls.

Entire chapters are devoted to topics like units and values, visual formatting and positioning, and the usual text, fonts, and colors. This attention to both detail and architecture helps readers build a well-rounded knowledge of CSS and equips readers for a future of real-world debugging. Cascading Style Sheets honestly explains the reasons for avoiding an in-depth discussion of the still immature CSS2, but covers the general changes over CSS1 in a brief chapter near the end of the book.

When successfully implemented, Cascading Style Sheets result in much more elegant HTML that separates form from function. This fine guide delivers on its promise as an indispensable tool for CSS coders. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered:

  • HTML with CSS
  • Selectors and structure
  • Units
  • Text manipulation
  • Colors and backgrounds
  • Boxes and borders
  • Visual formatting principles
  • Positioning
  • CSS2 preview
  • CSS case studies

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Although O'Reilly books are not the best place to learn how to use a technology, they are excellent for polishing its finer points. Ethernet and Internet protocols are difficult by nature, but cascading style sheets and MP3s are much more accessible to beginners. All of these books are recommended for university and large public libraries; Cascading Style Sheets and MP3 will also serve well smaller public libraries.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (May 11, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 472 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1565926226
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1565926226
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.93 x 9.19 inches
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Eric A. Meyer starting working on the web in late 1993. A past member of the CSS Working Group, he is the author of several acclaimed CSS books as well as many articles on CSS and web standards. More recently, he co-founded the conference series An Event Apart with Jeffrey Zeldman and speaks about web standards all over the world. In recognition of his work, he was inducted into the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2006.

A longtime resident of Cleveland, Ohio—which is a much nicer city than you've been led to believe—Eric used to be a weekly radio presence on WRUW 91.1-FM with a show covering the Big Band era. He now spends most of his free time reading, searching out great dishes, and playing with his wife and daughters.

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Customers find the book's organization concise, adequate, and a great intro to CSS. They say it's more accessible and able to be implemented into any webpage. Customers also say it maintains important code references and is a nice desk reference.

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PottedLiz
5.0 out of 5 stars Great technical reference
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2006
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CSS is the science and engineering behind the art of display. Meyer's book is a great resource for understanding that science. It is one of the few books allotted a place on my desk.

Written much like a programming book, it explains in logical steps exactly how the rules of CSS work. It is not a picture book: it does little to help someone design a website as that is not the intent. What the book does superbly is give the reader a detailed understanding of how to correctly construct a well designed (or not so well designed) website.

Because it examines the theory and logic underlying CSS, many portions of the book require thought and concentration to read. Some paragraphs seem quite difficult to follow at first glance, but the reason for this is that the ideas being conveyed are subtle and oftentimes complex. I found the book to be slow reading, much along the lines of a physics text, because a great deal of information is being conveyed in a small space.

My CSS code is much cleaner, and my coding and debugging time greatly reduced, as a result of *studying* this book.
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Marcia J. Mulloy
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guides
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2005
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First off, if we widen our horizons and try a few different browsers, CSS becomes far more useful -- and for any web programmer it should be like finally getting to the fun part. CSS takes a bit of learning. Experiment with it, play with it, discover the power of it. It will free you from so many pains in the you-know-what, you'll want to have a kegger to celebrate your new found control and freedom.

This guide is not a CSS "cookbook." It is indeed very much like a dictionary and it is exceedingly useful. It is a reference text and it can be used as a learning tool. Figure out how it is organized, mark it up, use index tabs to quickly find the sections you need once you have found them the first time. Whatever it takes to make the information more accessible to you.

There are other books that will illuminate the creative aspects of CSS. Buy them, too, if you like, but this one is the foundation. And Eric Meyer is a sure fire expert with this stuff, if anyone is.

And finally, once you get CSS under your belt, so to speak, you can be creative yourself. Playing with CSS can't hurt you. It won't even get your hands dirty. So, explore, create, do amazingly cool things -- and take this book with you!
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Daniel A Goldman
3.0 out of 5 stars An adequate tutorial and reference
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2013
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For the lack of anything better in my library, I used to refer to this book a lot. But I found it only adequate. The tutorial is not that well organized, and the book is rather incomplete as a reference. Very important, it gives little help in separating the "wheat from the chaff" to help understand this complex but important topic. I ended up extracting various information from the book and other sources to make my own "cheat sheet", which I now use almost exclusively. The book is still on my shelf, but I have not used for more than a year, although I use css a lot.
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Igo Hummaan
4.0 out of 5 stars Improve Your Knowledge of CSS
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2004
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Prior to owning this book, I was involved in web design of different types for about five years. I picked up various aspects of CSS from visual editors like GoLive and Dreamweaver, just by visually creating elements and tweaking the code. However, if you really want to understand the way CSS is structured and what the best methods for achieving certain types of looks are, this is a good place to start.

This book is neither pure code reference (you should get that at w3c.org), nor a tips and tricks book (though it does have some good code samples for how to achieve certain things in CSS). Rather it will teach you how to create your own "tricks", by explaining how to: structure CSS code, understand the differences in syntax, and understanding the differences between seemingly similar properties and property values (padding and margins for example).

One qualm I have is that the first book I received had a really poor glue-binding (pages were falling out, and the backing was detached from the binding). The replacement book (Amazon was very quick about it) also had a detached backing, but the binding itself was OK so I kept it. Also, I will say the book is a little dry / difficult to read more than a chapter at a time, but it's just as well because it's hard to retain things from technical books when you read straight through them (usually).

While this won't be the only CSS book you'll ever need by any stretch of the imagination, it's definitely a nice one to have around. I find that after my initial reading, the way I most often use this book is as a sort of "CSS Dictionary".

Once you're ready to start learning how to implement CSS in earnest, I recommend "Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation" by Owen Briggs. Similar in size and depth, this book is more accessible and more of a hands-on tool, while maintaining the important code references.
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Dami
5.0 out of 5 stars This is my go-to reference
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2001
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IMO, Mr. Meyer has done a good job explaining and showing CSS parameters. He has lots of examples with pictures depicting the results of the code. The book also indicates which styles are applicable to NS and/or IE and how well they work in each browser. There is a comprehensive appendix in the back listing the different styles and their attributes, as well as a good index. As a semi-experienced CSS user, I found it very helpful and informative. I think there are enough tips and tricks for the experienced CSS'er as well as enough explanation and example for the beginning CSS user.
The book sits within easy reach on my bookshelf, and I refer to it frequently. (I think I need to get another copy for work so I can take this copy back home!)
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Thomas J. Ba Ross
5.0 out of 5 stars a great intro to css
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2003
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If you ever wanted to learn about css this is the place to start. Eric not only covers all of css1 and an intro into css2, he warns you of all the caveats regarding browser combatibility.
After you read this book and follow it up with his book on web design, you'll have all you need . Not only can you throw out alot of your html code, but css can give you a workaround where html doesn't seem to have the answer.
Eric also gives alot of good online sources where you can find tricks for applying css, as well.
And finally, he writes in a style that is more like reading a novel then a text book.
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