CSS: 18 book reviews

This book shows how to take advantage of the benefits of CSS while keeping compatibility issues in mind. It covers: HTML with CSS; selectors and structure; units; text manipulation; colors and backgrounds; boxes and borders; visual formatting principles; positioning; CSS2 preview; and CSS case studies.

ISBN: 0596005253

This book reflect Cascading Style Sheet specifications, CSS2 and CSS2.1. It covers the information needed to implement CSS, with an introduction to the concepts of CSS, an alphabetical reference to the CSS2 and CSS 2.1 properties, and a chart displaying information about CSS support for style element across browsers.

ISBN: 0596007779

This book covers how to use Cascading Style Sheets to design professional-looking documents for online publication. Aspects of CSS that affect position, colour, typeface, and other design elements are also covered, as are the special considerations that relate to navigation tabs and images. A number of case studies help make ideas clear.

ISBN: 0735714258

This book provides hundreds of examples and CSS code to format web pages. The accompanying discussion allows to customize the formatting for specific purposes, showing why the solution works. It reflects CSS2 and includes topics that range from basic web typography and page layout to techniques for formatting lists, forms, and tables.

ISBN: 0596005768

This book describes how to use Cascading Style Sheets for the visual design of web pages. It covers concepts such as: separating content from presentation, block and inline elements, inheritance and cascade, the box model, typography, etc. It also covers CSS rules, how to structure a style sheet, linking style sheets to (X)HTML documents, CSS boxes etc.

ISBN: 159059231X

This book uses examples from the CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create CSS-based web sites. It provides an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS. In sections on design, layout, imagery, typography, effects, and themes, it takes through phase of the design process - from striking a balance between text and graphics to creating special effects.

ISBN: 0321303474

This book teaches how to: appreciate why maintaining tables is a nightmare and how CSS can help; understand when to use CSS and when not to use CSS; design using CSS positioning and multi-column page layouts; use the different types of CSS rules; reap the benefits of inheritance in CSS; style text and other content; make the most of other non-obvious uses of CSS; use CSS to achieve web accessibility; design sites that are standards compliant; accommodate older browsers; and much more.

ISBN: 0957921829

This book begins with a look at structured markup, both XHTML and CSS. It then explains how to use CSS to achieve specific design goals involving typography, colour, layout, and more. Finally, it deconstructs a series of designs, showing how the authors used CSS to maximize their efficiency and get the right effect.

ISBN: 0782141846

This book covers: CSS1 and CSS2 standards; CSS support on Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera and Mozilla; cascading order; CSS units; pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements; font properties; colour and background properties; text and box properties; classification properties; new CSS2 features; and much more.

ISBN: 0130092789

This book presents 13 cross-browser compatible projects to teach how to use cascading style sheets. Topics include: converting an existing HTML page to CSS; styling an events calendar; making an input form look good; fixing backgrounds; and creating non-rectangular layout effects.

ISBN: 073571245X