Cascading Style Sheets:Designing for the Web, 2nd Edition
- By Hakon Wium Lie, Bert Bos
- Published Jul 13, 1999 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
- Copyright 1999
- Dimensions: 7-3/8x9-1/8
- Pages: 416
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-201-59625-3
- ISBN-13: 978-0-201-59625-0
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This book should be on every web content provider, every web designer's shelf. It is the definitive reference on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the elegant and efficient way to add and manage elements of style (fonts, color, layout) within web documents. Cascading Style Sheets, Second edition, is a clear, readable, informative and thorough look at the World Wide Web Consortium's specification for CSS2, written by the World's leading authorities on CSS.
This book contains:
• complete coverage of CSSI and CSS2
• background information and practical examples
• information on which browsers support which CSS features
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its vendor-neutral operability. It is an international consortium with over 300 Member organizations.
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57 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Use this book to CODE, not to DESIGN., By
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This book is an indispensible resource if you've already decided HOW to implement CSS on your site and are looking for the best explanations of CSS selectors and syntax. The sections on typography and block-level elements, in particular, are detailed and extremely helpful (all that typography was much more than I needed to know, but it's good that it's there).However, do NOT use this book if you haven't decided yet which CSS methods to use and cross-browser compatibility matters to you (or your clients). Each chapter cheerfully explains CSS features the way the creators WISH they would work, without indicating serious bugs or pitfalls you may encounter in the real world when trying to implement them the way they tell you to. The browser support charts are buried in the back -- they barely scratch the surface, especially where Netscape 4.x is concerned. Making design decisions based on the information in this book could lead to some very unexpected and ugly results... Read more
32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
An excellent CSS tutorial and valuable reference., By steveosan (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
Prior to purchasing this book, the only things I knew how to do were make links so that they weren't underlined and change the color of some text. The basic, commonplace implementations of Cascading Style Sheets. Well, after hearing more about this rising development in web deisgn, I took an interest in CSS and decided to buy this book. I was not disappointed. It covers every aspect of CSS in a simple yet thorough manner. The quick reference inside the covers is also extremely helpful when you need to find the right CSS tag.In regard to previous reviewers who say most of this will not be supported in the near future or ever, my response is that yes, it is true true that many of CSS' features will never be fully developed and implemented but if you browse through the actual body of the book, you will find that the bulk of the material covered is either already supported by the major browsers or will be in their next release. Therefore, I feel that it will not be long before the vast... Read more
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
I wouldn't have a job without this book, By retrostar76 (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This book is absolutely indispensable. I don't have any other CSS books and I knew nothing of CSS before I started, but now I know it like the back of my hand. It's not only a great book to learn CSS, but it's also invaluable as a reference tool once you progress. Not one of those books you read then end up only to have to buy a more in-depth book for reference once you have progressed. It's good for everyone, beginner or advanced. Absolutely worth every penny.
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Table of Contents
1. The Web and HTML.
2. CSS 30.
3. The Amazing EM Unit and Other Best Practices.
4. CSS Selectors.
5. Fonts.
6. WebFonts.
7. The Fundamental Objects.
8. Space Inside Boxes.
9. Space Around Boxes.
Overflow.
10. Relative and Absolute Positioning.
11. Colors.
12. Printing and Other Media
13. Aural Style Sheets.
14. From HTML Extensions to CSS.
15. Cascading and Inheritance.
16. External Style Sheets.
17. Other Approaches.
XML Documents.
19. Tables.
20. The CSS Saga.
Appendix A: HTML 4.0 Quick Reference.
Appendix B: Reading Property Value Definitions.
Appendix C: System Colors.
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