Core CSS

by Keith Schengili-Roberts

This is a guide to cascading style sheets, updated for the CSS3 specification. It explains how individual CSS1, CSS2 and CSS3 properties work. Included is an expanded brower adoption section,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130092789
• ISBN13: 9780130092786
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.9" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Good for in-depth material

This is not a quick read. This is not a book with templates that will help you make a site. This book can be useful for beginners, it just may seem daunting to some at first due to the sheer volume of information. This is a book I tend to use as an occasional reference while I work. I especially like that at the end of each section, the author discusses what is or is not compatible with various browsers. Were I an instructor teaching a CSS class, this book would work well as a textbook.

Good for teaching and as a reference

When you've gone down the long road of learning HTML, then some kind of programming, then XML, you eventually look back and see how things have changed. Once you appreciate how XHTML can really separate content from presentation (and you know how valuable that is after using XML), it becomes clear that you need to know CSS.Core CSS goes through everything, and it does it very thoroughly, even on properties that are essentially repeats of each other (i.e., margin-left and margin-right). The basic core concepts regarding the box model, floating and such are all well covered with examples, and each property throughout the book tells you exactly what the "gotchas" are in the various browsers out there. The frustration that might come from design using div tags and CSS can at least be directed toward the browser makers and not the standard itself.The only minor shortcoming, not worthy enough of dropping my five-star score, is a rather brief example of doing a "table" with div tags. Still, it's not enough to really sweat over.I keep the book on my desk all of the time when doing layout and design. You will too after you breeze relatively quickly through its thousand pages.

Excellent Reference for CSS

This is book is the best book I found so far about CSS. There is one chapter for each Major property. One chapter for Fonts talking about how to set the Family, Size, Style, Variant, and Weight. Another chapter for Color and another for Borders and Units and Text and Boxes and the list go on and on. If you want to know about any particular property you'll find it and understand it in less than 2 minutes, gauranteed!! Personally I read the whole book in 1 week and learned a lot. I already know HTML and JavaScript very well and this book helped me to manage all my styles in one single file, I then included this file in all my web pages. A single change in this file will work for all web pages no matter how many they are. It's like magic! The preivew that was talking about inline vs external CSS is totally wrong. If you know how to write inline then you know external other wise sorry dude you don't know CSS.Summary: This book is for people who want a very simple and easy way to find out about any CSS property. I recommend that the person who buy this book should know JavaScript and of course HTML and basic CSS will be even better.

Excellent Reference for CSS

Core CSS Cascading Style Sheets is a book that every web designer who wants to use or uses CSS should have in their library. Avoiding CSS for some time, I finally decided to look into CSS for my site designs. Setting up type (i.e., typography) for a web page is a hit and miss situation. It is problem that finally led me to employ CSS in my designs. I found Core CSS Cascading Style Sheets an excellent place to start. The book is a complete overview of CSS including, definitions, differences between the major browsers, what is and is not supported by major browsers, and examples. This book isa good investment if you plan on using CSS in your web designs. I would recommend Core CSS Cascading Style Sheets to anyone wanting to know more about CSS and its implimentation.

Great Book -- Plenty of Info About How to Use CSS Now

Boy, this thing is big! If you are interested in using CSS on your Web site, this is a really good guide as to what code you can use now with the current browser standards. The info relating to the Mozilla browser (which will become Netscape Navigator 6.0) is handy as well.The one thing I like about this book over the O'Reilly book on the same subject is that it dives a lot into CSS2, giving me a head's up on features to come. Neat.Somebody else commented about the lack of info on external style sheets. That's a dumb comment because you can only learn how to write an external style sheet if you know the individual bits of code used. And the book *does* mention how to use external style sheets -- but most of the examples are inline, which is easier to illustrate.Thumbs up on this book!