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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by CSS guru Eric Meyer.

This is a very technical book about CSS and CSS2. After reading it, style sheets won’t have any more secrets to you; blocks, boxes, layers, units, positioning, cascading etc will be very close friends. While the content is sometimes pretty hard, the style always remains light and readable. For example, the chapter about boxes

There is some attention for the various CSS issues in specific browsers, but not so much as to get in the way of the flow of the book. Where there are differences between CSS2 and CSS2.1, they are clearly explained. CSS3 is largely ignored due to its unfinished status, but is sometimes mentioned when it presents the only foreseeable solution to a common problem.

I found the (few) graphics in this book very clear, while not really visually beautiful. The book contains no color as it is printed in gray scale, but you hardly ever miss it. Luckily, a lot of attention was put into the layout of the text itself; it’s a pleasure to see and read. Concerning quality, this book certainly deserves to be an O’Reilly ‘animal book‘. (By the way, the animal for this book is salmon. Did you know that trout is part of the salmon family?)

The book tells you what you need to know to understand CSS. Really. If, on the other hand, you’re looking for advice about how to structure and layout your website, then other books are more suitable.

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