When you're working with CSS and need a quick answer, "CSS Pocket Reference" delivers. This handy, concise book provides all of the essential information you need to implement CSS on the fly. Ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers, the 4th edition is revised and updated for CSS3, the latest version of the Cascading Style Sheet specification. Along with a complete alphabetical reference to CSS3 selectors and properties, you'll also find a short introduction to the key concepts of CSS.
Based on "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide," this reference is an easy-to-use cheatsheet of the CSS specifications you need for any task at hand. This book helps you: Quickly find and adapt the style elements you needLearn how CSS3 features complement and extend your CSS practicesDiscover new value types and new CSS selectorsImplement drop shadows, multiple backgrounds, rounded corners, and border imagesGet new information about transforms and transitions
Eric A. Meyer is an American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a technique for managing how HTML is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use. Eric currently works for Igalia.
Useful as a quick reference guide, I find this handy when searching for known selectors/properties. With the advent of CSS3, this pocket reference (covering CSS2.1) is now a bit dated.
This is an amazing reference and every web designer should have a copy. Its arranged very well and is easy to tote around. Could have used some kind of visuals for the CSS properties, but it is only pocket size. If you don't have a copy, you should really get one!
Only gave three stars because its just a reference (although it is a must own). Take a star off if you're a visual learner and add one if you like dry programming books.
This is the second most used book in my library, outshined only by a notebook where I keep notes on all things I'm forever having to look up.
CSS: The Definitive Guide is an awesome reference, but a bit bulky to take on trips, or to have on your desk all the time. This little gem steps in and rescues me regularly.
I also have the first edition, so I can look up the CSS that older browsers recognise.
This is the first edition of this book. I went looking for it specifically, well after I knew enough CSS 2.1 to work without a book (most of the time) because this is the CSS that older browsers understand, if they understand any at all (it depends on the browser, and just how old it is).
I hardly use this book, but I wouldn't be without it.
This book has definitely been invaluable to me in expanding my knowledge of CSS over the years. There seems to always be something new to learn about CSS. In fact I was reading through it pretty well every day on the bus one summer.
Absolutely indispensable. This travels with me almost everywhere, literally. I may not always have a quarter to call home, but I always have my CSS Pocket Reference.