Can anyone recommend a CSS book for a newbie?

[FatBlokeOnBikepins]

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As per the title, really.

TIA.

 

[Chris Leonard]

I've looked at quite a few but they all seem to miss bits out which I'd like
to know.

Best bet ..... use the online help, you'll nearly always find an answer and
there are some excellent tutorials

 

[Eric Bohlman]

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As per the title, really.

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You need to qualify "newbie." Newbie to Web design in general? Newbie to
writing HTML as such rather than using a "WYSIWYG" editor? Newbie to CSS,
but expert in nearly all other aspects of Web authoring? The best book for
one such "newbie" won't be the best one for another. For example, many CSS
books have large sections devoted to helping designers unlearn bad habits
like tricky and rigid nested-table designs (and in many cases to convince
designers *why* they need to unlearn those habits). If, however, you never
picked up those bad habits, either through lack of experience or a genuine
desire to do the Right Thing, then those sections will be just fluff to you
and the book will be "thinner" to you than it would be to a designer in
need of rehabilitation.

(Note, though, that even if you never picked up the bad habits, you'll
likely find yourself eventually called up on to repair sites created by
people with them, so it's worth at least skimming over the "site makeover
stories.")

Are you looking for a reference book, a tutorial, or a "cookbook"? Do you
learn best through presentations of theory, or through lots of worked-out
examples?

 

[Jim Royal]

Take a look at these:

http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/

http://zeldman.com/dwws/

 

[Mike Scirocco]

I liked "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) By Example" QUE

http://www.callihan.com/cssbook/