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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780596527334
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0596527330
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 536
Publication Date: November 07, 2006
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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.
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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I haven't read the entire book yet, but did look up information using the index and found what I needed easily. I am sure it will be a big help in understanding CSS better.
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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.
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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 ... Read More
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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!
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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 ... Read More
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