Essential CSS & DHTML for Web Professionals

by Dan Livingston

This title guides the reader through stylesheets and DHTML using practical examples. It starts with basic concepts and simple examples and then works up to sophisticated effects and functionality. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130127604
• ISBN13: 9780130127600
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Refresher - Good starting place

Great place to start CSS and dHTML or refresh your memory plus a handy reference. This book tells you exactly how to create the nice little dHTML menus that you see at places like eddiebauer.com and others. Missing a few things. For you beginners, this does not directly cover the difference in Class vs. ID in the div tag but more hints at it. You're supposed to take what he's doing as gospel. Might be missing a few of the cool tricks from dHTML but overall it's great.

taught me what I needed to know about CSS and DHTML

I'm not sure which book the guy who gave this one star actually read. It wasn't this one. I didn't know squat about CSS or DHTML. I had to learn it quickly for my job, and reading this book and working through the examples taught me everything I needed to know in about three days. I already knew HTML and a little JavaScript. There's lots of code covering lots of different possibilities of CSS and DHTML, suggestions for best time-saving coding practices, and complete cross-browser code for IE 5 and Netscape 6. The title is just fine: I'm a web developer, and this book taught me (it's very well-written, by the way) all the essentials of CSS and DHTML as well as how to use them.

Wonderful tutorial, solid code, great writer

This may sound harsh, but if you can't learn the basics (and more) of DHTML and stylesheets from this book, then you should probably not be developing web sites. I've been slogged through hundreds of computer books throughout the years, and this is definitely in the top 5 as far as quality of writing, timeliness, usable code, and emphasis on real-world application. The text and code for the stylesheets (that's CSS for newbies) along is worth the price of the book. This book earns every one of its five stars.

Wow! Perfect DHTML book for me

I wasn't sure about this book - the first edition didn't get great reviews. But this second edition has clearly been rewritten from top to bottom - the examples are great, the web site is up.This book covers stylesheets (CSS), telling you how real-world programmers use its myriad feaatures, and then dives into DHMTL for Netscape 4 AND 6 (Netscpe 6 is weird, but it's well explained) and of course, Internet Explorer. There's simple animations, placing layers, dragging layers, navigation systems, all sorts of cool stuff written in a really comfortable, friendly voice that knows you don't know DHMTL, but doesn't assume you're an idiot. The author is definitely a programmer who knows how to teach.Even if you already know some DHTML, the code in the book is worth the price of admission. I don't usually gush like this, but I really think this book is one of the better ones out there.

Well-written and easily applicable to my needs.

This is no book for "Dummies" but is a nicely crafted work by authors who know what they are talking about and who know how to explain it to their readers professionally and enjoyably.