Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is poised to make its mark on the Web. With good implementations in Internet Explorer 5.0 and Opera 3.6, and 100% support expected in Netscape's "Mozilla" browser, signs are that CSS is rapidly becoming a useful, reliable, and powerful tool for web authors. CSS is the W3C-approved method for enriching the visual presentation of web pages. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide offers a complete, detailed review of CSS1 and CSS positioning, as well as an overview of CSS2. Each property is explored in detail with a discussion of how each interacts with other properties. There is also information on how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation. This book is the first major title to cover CSS in a way that both acknowledges and describes current browser support, instead of simply describing the way things work in theory. It offers both web authors and scripters a comprehensive guide to using CSS effectively. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide targets veteran web authors who have already invested thousands of hours in learning HTML and writing web pages and are wondering why they need to learn a brand new language of style. This book supplies those dubious but curious web authors with the information they need to easily implement CSS for their web site. This book also addresses an audience of novice web authors who are already straining to learn all of the tags and attributes of HTML and can benefit now from implementing CSS correctly instead of repeating the mistakes of the past. The author has extensive experience writing about pitfalls and interesting tricks in CSS. He is a member of the CSS&FP Working Group, coordinates the W3C's CSS1 Test Suite, remains active on CSS newsgroups, and edits Web Review's Style Sheets Reference Guide. He has built a widespread reputation as a CSS expert, particularly with regard to his understanding of the intricacies of browser support for CSS. He brings his knowledge and expertise to this book in the form of hints, workarounds, and many other tips for web authors.

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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  July 13 2001
Submitted by Emmanuel Verbeeck   [Respond | View]

The best book on CSS on this planet. As usual with O'Reilly : concise, precise, complete, crystal clear. Bravo.


Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  April 09 2001
Submitted by Mike   [Respond | View]

The need to separate layout from the content during web page design/implementation process is a strong selling point made in this book. The logical content separation can be taken further by discussing separating static from dynamic content, ie, HTML vs. JavaScript and by discussing dynamic client and server-generated content, ie, JavaScript vs. ActiveX/jdbc/dbi; neither of these points are mentioned in this book.

The author plunges into CSS and the first few chapters are very handy. The presentations on how CSS is hierarchical, supports inheritance, the numerous demos of various CSS tags/units is worthwhile. Too bad this book could not be printed in color. The down side to the topic is the very poor CSS support by Netscape 4.x browsers.

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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  March 12 2001
Submitted by Nihal Mehta   [Respond | View]

Excellent book. The book manages to talk about the essentials without meandering. Evary line is a value-add. A weatlth of information that you can immediately use on your website. If nothing else, read the last chapter (No. 11): CSS in Action.


Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  February 06 2001
Submitted by Lorin Rivers   [Respond | View]



This book let me hit the ground running with CSS and answered most of my burning questions and laid the clue down where I was unaware of the depth of my ignorance.

I will now get my CSS stroll on, because font tags are SO 1999

Thanks!


Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  January 11 2001
Submitted by Todd Hawley   [Respond | View]



Good job!

This book's title is quite descriptive. It gives a detailed look at Style Sheets, starting with their "history," basic rules and structure, text and background colors, and other text properties among other topics. While the book specifically discusses CSS1 style sheets, it does devote a chapter to CSS2 (the upcoming standard), but freely admits the standards for it could change, depending of course on browser support (or lack thereof) for the new standards.

And that's another point the book stresses, that every browser is different in what it does or doesn't support with Cascading Style Sheets. One of the book's appendixes contains a table of different style sheet elements and what each browser supports. Another appendix lists CSS resources, which is quite valuable at a time when style sheet standards appear to be ever changing.

I had held off learning about Cascading Style Sheets for quite a while and thanks to this book, I now realize the power and flexibility they provide for web sites.




Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  July 27 2000
Submitted by Anonymous Reader   [Respond | View]

I have a great deal of HTML experience, but wanted a quick course in style sheets. This books was
fabulous for not only giving clear instruction on how to use them, but also in pointing out common
headaches in browser support. This is the first computer book I've read that represented a goodmidrange level tutorial...not a primer for beginning programmers, and not a technobabble encyclopedia of code. It's a must for any busy professional who just wants the straight story and
doesn't have time to waste figuring out where the common pitfalls are. We all have jobs we need to
do, not time to read tons of books! Kudos to O'Reilly for the first book I've liked from their presses!


Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  July 27 2000
Submitted by Anonymous Reader   [Respond | View]

Page by page, feature by feature, Eric Meyer's 'Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide' puts a new face on the new face of the Web. I found this book to be useful at virtually every page: I was using CSS on my own homepage within minutes, and plan to expand that to the various websites I maintain, then to influence my officemates to join me in the quest for cascading styles. The only detracting point would be the constant use of Latin in the example text.


Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  July 27 2000
Submitted by water monkey   [Respond | View]

The CSS bIble--While all this information can be found online (which could be said about almost any web development language), the amount of attention paid to the subject is exceptional.

As with most O'Reilly books I own, I have never felt they were a waste of time or money. Finally, someone has done justice to a subject that should be at the forefront of every developers arsenal of web development tools.

I give lectures on web development and this is a subject that I stress to people over most others. The book is concise with very little fluff. It reads like a textbook.

Buy this book!


Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  July 27 2000
Submitted by Robert Pierce   [Respond | View]

While O'Reilly books are almost always good (though sometimes dry and lacking in examples), this book is off the scale in its usefulness and excellence. The most valuable parts of the book explain browser compatibility issues and offers tips, tricks and solutions for getting css stylesheets to work in a real-world environment. Any serious web developer should have this book on their shelf.


Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Review,  June 18 2000
Submitted by Kersti   [Respond | View]

This book has been invaluble in the redevelopment of www.yellowpages.com.au, www.whitepages.com.au, www.goeureka.com.au and www.whereis.com.au

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