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Product Description They say that good things come in small packages, and it's certainly true for this edition of CSS Pocket Reference. Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1, this indispensable little book covers the most essential information that web designers and developers need to implement CSS effectively across all browsers. Inside, you'll find: A short introduction to the key concepts of CSS A complete alphabetical reference to all CSS 2.1 selectors and properties A chart displaying detailed information about CSS support for every style element and its cross-browser compatibility This reference neatly condenses the details of its top-selling companion volume, Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide into one easy-to-use cheat-sheet that delivers all the CSS details you need to complete the task at hand. Whenever you're stuck and need an answer quickly -- or if you just want to be sure you're applying CSS correctly -- this edition of the CSS Pocket Reference is the book you'll want by your keyboard or, conveniently, in your back pocket.
Featured Customer Reviews Really handy!,
January 02, 2009 CSS, or "Cascading Style Sheets" is the language used to tell a web page what you want it to look like -- to "style" the web page, in other words.
This book isn't intended to take you from the moment you learned the term to really knowing how to use it. It's intended to keep you from having to remember all the little details, or having to look them up in your giant textbook.
The book begins with a quick overview of the purpose and rules of CSS. Then comes the main part: a list of selectors and properties.
Each listing includes the values, initial value, what it applies to, whether it is inherited, percentages if that's relevant, the computed value, and then a description.
So, for example, the entry for "background-color" tells us that we can specify the background color for our web page by using , that it can be transparent, that we can specify that it inherits, and that it applies to all elements.
Then it goes on to say exactly what this property will do ("...sets a solid color for the background of the element") and what kinds of problems we might have with this when using different browsers. For more complex choices, there will also be examples.
Having described everything from :active to widows, the book finishes up with a list of older terms that are no longer used. There is a thorough index, as well.
You'll pull this off your shelf often if you write web pages, whether to check the options for bullets in your unordered lists or to find out what the mysterious term Dreamweaver offered you might mean. It's small enough to stick in a pocket and complete enough to be a useful reference for beginners or experienced users.
Great little helper,
September 12, 2008 I suggest reading the definitive guide first but I keep this pocket version on my desk (well, I know it's around here somewhere). A useful quick reference for web designers that have abandoned the outmoded world of tables-based layout.Excellent Reference,
September 01, 2008 The CSS Pocket Reference is just that, a "reference". It is not a lesson guide on using CSS. It will give you the quick syntax when you need it. It also gives a list of the browsers that support each element. Very helpful if you want your page to be compatible with more than one browser.Excellent Pocket-sized Reference Tool,
August 02, 2008 You can't go wrong with this one-stop shopping reference book on CSS. You need to know or, at least, have a familiarity with CSS to take advantage of this tool. Highly recommended for CSS geeks & web designers. Eric Meyer is The Man. Great reference: perfect if it had illustrations,
April 17, 2008
The information on it is impeccable and serves as a great resource for those who what they are looking for (think of it as a dictionary). However, if you are clueless about CSS and want to learn from scratch, look elsewhere (his title CSS Web Site Design Hands on Training (Hands-On Training) is a very good starting point) as there are no concessions made her for newbies nor any illustrations to help you visualize the impact that changing things in a CSS expression can have.
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