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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
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Author: Eric Meyer
List Price: $34.95
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ISBN: 1565926226
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (15 May, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 8,404
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Great Explanation of CSS
Though I had a basic knowledge of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), I did not know the full power of them. CSS has the ability to do many things, but basically the strength of it over plain HTML is that you are able to define a "style" to be applied to your whole website. To change the look and feel, you simply change a few lines in your style sheet and your whole site is updated. CSS can be used even if you have a site that consists of just one page.Eric Meyer's book will put you on your way to using CSS. A basic knowledge of HTML is helpful to understand the first part of the book. He jumps into the book as if this was a sequel to a book he just finished on HTML. He takes for granted that you understand how pages are built. Typical of many technical books, the information is often repeated so that you can jump into any chapter and get the basic information of how to make it work. That said, I only found one place in the book where he actually tells you how to link to a style sheet. Therefore, you need to read much of the introductory material. If you have an understanding of CSS and this is going to be a reference work, you will not be disappointed.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Excelent book, but not up to date anymore
As almost all O'Reilly books, this is a great technical book. Great info, great index, and great organization. The author is a CSS guru. Unfortunatelly the contents aren't up to date with the current browser technology. The 2000 edition doesn't even know about the newst Mozilla versions (a.k.a. Netscape 6). Wait for a newer edition, or buy another one.
Rating: 5 out of 5
a great intro to css
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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