Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 656 pages
- Published by: Wrox
- Edition: 2nd Edition June 12, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0470096977
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470096970
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 3.4 pounds
Product Description
The fantastically successful first edition introduced readers to Richard York’s unparalleled Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills and this edition offers updates for Firefox 2, Internet Explorer, and other browsers with improved CSS support. The step-by-step format and full-color examples provide you with clear explanations so that you can define styles to apply to items on thousands of Web pages, rather than marking up the formatting of each item individually.
Download Description
This book is the perfect introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Web markup standard that allows Web designers and developers to easily make a style change to one CSS template and then change formatting across hundreds-or thousands-of pages Covers the current CSS standard versions (CSS 1 and CSS 2) with notes and comments where appropriate on the CSS 3 standard in development Includes quick reference on CSS at the end of the book as well as integrated reference coverage throughout Teaches by using an example-oriented approach and includes exercises at the end of each chapter, with sample solutions provided in the appendix
Reader ReviewsI've read several books about CSS over the last three or four years, but this book has to be the most complete I've seen. Not only does Mr. York obviously know this material quite extensively, he does it in a way that makes total sense. And this book is not just for beginning web developers either, there's quite a bit of information that more experienced developers can learn about. I also liked the various code examples in color. It helps to make the specific code stand out much more when it's in a different color than the code around it. This of course helps the reader to understand and remember it more effectively. The author also takes time to talk about the differences in browsers and how each one presents the code. There are few things more aggravating to a web developer than having to deal with the various quirks of each browser. What looks great in IE may not look so hot in Firefox or Safari. And vice versa. The author cites various examples of this throughout the book, as well as "workarounds" for each "issue." Another thing that makes this book so enjoyable is how the author goes through step by step instructions on how to achieve a particular style. This is one way to show how styles affect presentation. It's amazing how powerful CSS has become over the last few years. There's a lot you can do with styles and Mr York has shown all web developers ways we can take advantage of this power.
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