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Summary: Indespensible
Review: Perfect CSS1 reference. Eric Meyer is the high priest of CSS, and this belongs on the desk of any web designer who wants to learn how to work with stylesheets from the ground up, and have a reference you'll use again and again.I also bought Meyer's fabulous "Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design." These two books compliment each other very well. "CSS The Definitive Reference" is accessible to someone who is a rank beginner at stylesheets, yet would benefit intermediate users as well. If you already have a CSS reference book and want to go to the finer points, you may want to go straight to "Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design," however; it's more of project-oriented book, and a bit more involved and advanced. Also, one caveat; because of the publication date of this book, CSS2 is not really covered. If this is an important consideration for you, maybe wait until a new edition comes out.
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Summary: An Excellent Read
Review: This book is an excellent resource for understanding Cascading Style Sheets. The writing style is amazingly readable, which is a stark contrast to the usual dull specifications found in online CSS references. The author shares his detailed understanding of all the quirks of CSS1, and does a good job looking ahead to CSS2. Even if the reader doesn't follow every particular of every item, it's nice to have a feel for the programmers intention. I feel as if I have an even better grasp of whole concept of "cascading." Even though it's a CSS version behind, this book is outstandingly usable for the HTML-familiar web designer who wants to streamline and update to cutting edge code. Personal web page owners would benefit greatly. The only significant drawback to this book is that the book is printed entirely in black and white, which means that all examples are shown in grayscale, not in color. And this lack of color tends to undermine the in-color code examples. You have to use your imagination (or your own computer) to try out the CSS code to see what it really does on your color monitor. With the exception of this limitation, I strongly recommend this book as a CSS learning tool and reference.
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Summary: THE book to get to learn CSS
Review: This is a terrific book. It assumes only a basic understanding of HTML, and explains every aspect of Cascading Style Sheets. If you are looking to learn CSS, this is the book to get. No stone is left unturned. Meyer gives tons and tons of simple, illustrative examples, and takes you through every single element of CSS, step by step. He also gives you all the information about what elements do and don't work in the various browsers in us. I strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: Cascade Style Sheets give you full control over Web page
Review: Cascade Style Sheets give you full control over Web page attributes, such as, font color, style, spacing, and size. CSS are simple reusable mechanism to define Web page attributes. Most browsers support CSS and this book provides a good foundation for learning how to implement CSS embedded or inlined. You'll learn about grouping, inheritance, class as a selector, id as a selector, the cascading order, formating, block level elements, vertical formatting, horizontal formating, font (families, weight, style, size, color), background (color, image, position, repeat), text(word-spacing,letter-spacing), box (margin-(top, right,bottom,left), padding border (top width,right width,bottom width, and left width), and much more.
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Summary: Great for beginner and a great reference for expert
Review: If you need to know what Cascading Style Sheets is and you know nothing - this is your book. If you need a handy reference for CSS statements - this is your book. It is a true O'Reilly book. Very high quality.
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Summary: A super book!
Review: I wanted to learn CSS so I bought a book that I thought would be good. Instead I could not make heads or tails out of it. Then I decided to come back to O'Reilly publishing and I am glad that I did. This book has everything in it and it is easy to understand. Now I use internal and external style sheets with no problem. I wish I would of bought this book first. This book is GREAT!
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Summary: A must-have
Review: This book is critical to anyone serious about learning and using CSS. It's an excellent start for a beginner, and its value as a reference for the experienced developer will give it a permanent position on your desk. Eric Meyer is not only one of the world's leading experts in CSS, but a gifted author. No one serious about CSS should be without this Guide.
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Summary: The Browsers are Ready for CSS1
Review: I realize that this book was originally published in 2000, and that CSS2 has been released, but it usually takes a while for the industry to catch up to new technologies. It's time to start using Cascading Style Sheets. If you've been skeptical, so have I. I've tested most of the examples in this book in Netscape 4.76, and IE 5.5, and most of them worked in the older Netscape Browser! All examples that I tested worked in IE 5.5. I always keep myself a few revs back on the Netscape side, and use it as a floor for testing. If it runs there, I feel that it's safe to use. (I really only test with Netscape and IE, I gave up on AOL long ago...) Mr. Meyer does an awesome job presenting the material in this book, and all of the examples are extremely useful. The book is well thought out and organized, and lacks nothing. I read it sitting in front of my computer so that I could implement the examples as I went along. I was really excited about being able to finally use CSS confidently in new Web sites, and this book shows the way. I'm not sure if the Browsers are ready for CSS2 yet, but I can say that I've already bought Mr. Meyer's new book on the subject, having been thoroughly impressed with his first.
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Summary: Clear and concise
Review: I found this book to be clear and concise, both while starting to learn to write CSS and now when I'm more experienced.
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Summary: A definative guide to style sheets
Review: This is a clearly presented, logically organized and easy to read guide to a complex and complicated subject. It will be useful to every HTML coding level - from expert to novice.
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