CSS?

[Ted Barker]

Can anyone recommend a book for a beginner to learn CSS. I have a decent
understanding of HTML.

Thanks
Ted B.

 

[Frank Lewandowski]

Can anyone recommend a book for a beginner to learn CSS. I have a decent
understanding of HTML.

Hi,

try this Homepage:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp
I think a better reference you couldn't get.

Kind regards

Frank

 

[Duende]

While sitting in a puddle Ted Barker scribbled in the mud:

Can anyone recommend a book for a beginner to learn CSS. I have a decent
understanding of HTML.

Brucies css links:
css tutorials and other fun 'n giggly css stuff:
http://www.css.nu/ CSS Pointers Group for practical use of CSS
http://www.mako4css.com/ MaKo 4 CSS - CSShark Answers FAQs
http://www.richinstyle.com/ RichInStyle.com - Styling the Web
http://www.blazonry.com/css/ Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
http://www.w3schools.com/css/ CSS Tutorial (ver 1.1)
http://www.websitetips.com/css/ Websitetips.com - CSS Section
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/ WDG Guide to Cascading Style Sheets
http://www.pageresource.com/dhtml/indexcss.htm PageResource.com CSS
Tutorials
http://www.webpageworkshop.co.uk/main/css_index Webpage Workshop: CSS
tutorials
http://old.climbtothestars.org/coding/cssbasic/ Coding - What is CSS? Why
should I use it?
http://www.htmlcenter.com/tutorials/index.cfm/css/ HTMLCenter - Tutorials -
CSS
http://www.freewebmastertips.com/php/content.php3?aid=48
FreeWebmasterTips.com - CSS Tutorial Basics
http://www.canit.se/~griffon/web/writing_stylesheets.html Writing CSS1
style sheets - A short guide
http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/books/xhtml2/exerpt/css-4a.html Guidelines for
cross-platform CSS Support
http://www.greytower.net/en/archive/articles/tsutsumi.html Tsutsumi - The
Art of Giftwrapping the Web
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200101/csstutorial1a.html CSS
Tutorial Part I - Page 1 of 5
http://webmonkey.com/authoring/stylesheets/tutorials/tutorial1.html
Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource Stylesheets Tutorial

layout examples:
http://www.glish.com/css/
http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.bookofstyles.org/
http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/
http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/
http://nemesis1.f2o.org/templates.php
http://www.xs4all.nl/~apple77/columns/
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
http://www.htmler.org/tutorials/3/1.html
http://css.nu/articles/floating-boxes.html
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/
http://www.roguelibrarian.com/lj/index.html
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssLayouts
http://ecoculture.com/styleguide/r/rollovers.html
http://thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/index.html
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/style/sheets/layout/advanced/

some sites using css layouts:
http://www.inc.com/
http://www.wired.com/
http://www.opera.com/
http://www.kitty5.com/
http://www.cinnamon.nl/
http://msn.espn.go.com/
http://www.virtuelvis.com/
http://www.emptybottle.org/
http://www.fastcompany.com/
http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/
http://www.pga.com/pgachampionship/2004/

rounded corners:
http://www.albin.net/CSS/roundedCorners/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customcorners/
http://www.guyfisher.com/builder/workshop/css/corners/

slants: http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/slantinfo.html
lists: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/
pure css menus: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html
Fast rollovers: http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/cssnopreloadrollovers/

centering thingys
http://dorward.me.uk/www/centre/
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/center.html
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~laurirai/www/css/middle/
http://hicksdesign.co.uk/articles/css/vertical_centering_with_css/

master compatibility charts:
http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/index.html
http://macedition.com/cb/resources/abridgedcsssupport.html
old:
http://www.immix.net/html/CSSGuide.htm
http://devedge.netscape.com/library/xref/2003/css-support/

hiding CSS from crappy browsers:
http://diveintomark.org/safari/csshacks/
http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/bonus/trick-hide.html
http://www.w3development.de/css/hide_css_from_browsers/

css checkers:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/

cascading style sheets, level 2 specification
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
cascading style sheets, level 2 revision 1 Candidate Recommendation
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/

 

[Sid Ismail]

: Can anyone recommend a book for a beginner to learn CSS. I have a decent
: understanding of HTML.


http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/hands_on_tutorial/

Sid

 

[Spartanicus]

try this Homepage:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp
I think a better reference you couldn't get.

For a *reference* only the w3c spec will do.

Seeing as the OP is looking to *learn* CSS it would have been better had
you pointed him to w3school's CSS tutorial:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp With an added warning that it
contains errors and that w3schools has no affiliation with w3c.

 

[saz]

Can anyone recommend a book for a beginner to learn CSS. I have a decent
understanding of HTML.

Thanks
Ted B.

Outstanding book for beginners, and great to leave on the shelf for a
quick reference:

Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

You can find it at Amazon.com

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

For a *reference* only the w3c spec will do.

Well, for some definition of "reference". The problem is that the W3C
doesn't work like a standards body. Take a look at
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/#specs
titled "CSS Specifications". What have we got here?
CSS 3 is _under development_ (actually, a collection of drafts)
CSS 2.1 is "candidate recommendation"
CSS 1 is the good old specification approved in 1996, later
modified in 1999, never actually implemented as such, and
in some essential ways in conflict with CSS 2 (though
most a subset thereof)

So where's CSS 2? They don't even bother mentioning it there.
It _is_ a W3C recommendation, but you need to find it through other
paths, and this gives a hint of the W3C's real position on it.

 

[Spartanicus]

[Moan deleted]

May I suggest that next time you feel the urge to have a moan about
something you start a separate thread. Follow ups should be relevant to
what you are replying to.

 

[Henry]

[Moan deleted]

May I suggest that next time you feel the urge to have a moan about
something you start a separate thread. Follow ups should be relevant to
what you are replying to.

I'll do it. Great writing of Jukka.