| Overview
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
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionCSS: 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. 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
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 32 reviews. Great book!, 2009-04-12 Reviewer rating: This is a good investment for anyone that is a beginner on CSS believe me! I am a graphic designer in transition from printed materials to web and is very useful. | Nothing else comes close, 2009-03-27 Reviewer rating: This is the only CSS book the world needs. Half the information in this book is unavailable anywhere else -- and it's the half that always trips you up, too. This book will catapult you from "frustrated, bawling baby-man or baby-woman" to "smooth-codin' CSS pachuco" in no time flat.
CSS is a pretty well-designed system, but the general problem of layout is more complicated than it seems on the surface. The concepts look simple -- margins, sizes, positions -- but experience shows that you can't rely on your intuitive expectations of reasonable behavior. For example, CSS looks for all the world as if left and right were analogous to top and bottom. But in fact, horizontal and vertical layout are different systems that use rather different rules. Gotcha!
In the CSS domain, there is just no substitute for actually studying and understanding the system. You have to know the specific rules through which CSS properties are turned into geometry, and that's what this book provides. It's clear, concise, and authoritative.
Without this book, your life is not worth living.
| Cool...I get it..., 2009-01-28 Reviewer rating: Eric writes in a clear and detailed way that really communicates. This is especially challenging when an artistic concept has to be explained in technical detail!
If you just need a little CSS, check out Eric's articles. If you're tasked with supporting several sites with diverse text requirements, or you're into heavy CMS configurations like Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, read the book! | Boring, just like a good web dev reference should be, 2008-11-21 Reviewer rating: A solid plot, well-formed characters, and an intriguing writing style make this... wait, what?
This is a boring, very useful book. I've read a lot about CSS on the web and nothing came close to the explanation in this book. Instead of saying things like "we won't bother you with the complex way this is calculated," Meyer bothers you with the complexity. Each property I read made me really understand how it works and how it should be used.
I've been reading this bad-boy from cover to cover and I think I'm doing myself a bit of a disservice. I think I'm going to skip to the positioning section (everyone could use a better understanding of this mysterious and magical world), read that, maybe read a few other things I'm interested in mastering and then leave it as a reference. It makes a lot more sense to read the properties you don't understand than trying to get through it all.
Learn (x)HTML and CSS online, then buy this book if you're serious about getting into web page design. | An expert who has trouble writing clearly, 2008-10-14 Reviewer rating: I feel obliged to review this book after being unable to accomplish a simple css task: designing an improved css file.
Meyers knows his subject. But he keeps using fancy examples or unnecessarily complex coverage that detracts from the content non-experts need to learn. For example, I was attempting to figure out why a certain case of inheritance is failing. His section on that is too complex to follow, because he covers the entire inheritance resolution scheme of css, rather than the simple cases that most frequently appear. So I was never able to solve the problem. I had to resort to searching the net.
After reading the first few chapters, I needed to go back and find where he discussed first-child. Skimming did not find it, so I checked the index. It's not there! So I was forced again to search the net.
This could have been resolved by writing clearly. Every time you introduce something of importance, bold it or put it in a section heading. Then skimming will allow finding it easily.
At this point I decided the book was not quite worthy of sitting on the same shelf as my dozens of other web dev books, and so I tossed it in the trash. Your mileage may vary, but for me it's a time waster. |
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