Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design

Introduction

As many readers are no doubt aware, I’ve spent a good deal of time and energy on the subject of CSS during the past six years. In addition to articles and support charts and test suites, I’ve also written Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly, 2000) and Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer’s Reference (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2001), which to me always felt like two legs of a three-legged stool. The first leg covered theory in detail with the intent of educating the reader how CSS works in all its details. The second leg was meant for CSS authors who needed a reference text to help them write clean CSS the first time and to remind them of value names and meanings. The missing third leg was a book that showed how CSS ...