The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of best practice solutions to the most challenging CSS problems. The second edition of this best-selling book, now in full color, has been completely revised and updated to cover the latest techniques and newer browsers, including Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7. It's the most complete question-and-answer book on CSS, with over 100 tutorials that'll show you how to gain… Product details and pricing info |
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52 Customer Reviews Posted
- For a pragmatic usage
- Let's be objective, all the books following a "theorical" approach of CSS failed. The website (w3c) is not very clear, the syntax is all but easy to remember and - above all - browsers were designed by integrating their own view of CSS ; view that is sometimes far from the original w3c specs, we have to cope with w3c implementations (centering vertically you said?).
I spent a tremendous time on the net and in various books to find a solution to common problems, hardened by the differences between browsers.
This book always answered my questions ; sometimes it was not exactly the answer I was looking for, but among the 101 recipes, I always found something near enough to guide me towards a correct result.
Initially I was reluctant to purchase a developer book made of recipes. Nevertheless, I must admit this one fits the needs, it deserves all his 5 stars. - 2006-05-12, 8 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Excellent Resource to Keep Around
- I've been using CSS for about 3 years (heavily for 1 year), and purchased this book to reference the areas of CSS that I don't use regularly. However, the sections are quick, easy, and informative. A definite must for anyone using CSS. I also just like reference books because they're quick to use.
- 2006-03-30, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A Great Guide to Get You Started in CSS!
- Check out the sites I designed using this book as a reference: http://rainiersupply.com and http://tudorwebdesign.com .
- 2006-03-21, 2 of 15 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Mostly basic info for pure beginners
- Unless you are a complete beginner to CSS, you will probably be as disappointed with this book as I was. I am no expert on CSS having done only a few pages with it, but I already felt that I was beyond the level of this book. It does have some useful tips and techniques, but not very many that are beyond what is readily available with free on-line tutorials that can be found by googling. It also frequently takes several pages to explain basic topics that need no more than a page. Except for the few notes I've taken from the book, I doubt that I'll refer to it much.
- 2006-03-20, 13 of 21 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great Book
- Great book! I immediately began adding these solutions to my websites. This is one of the books I will keep for reference to reuse the code solutions in my websites.
- 2006-02-23, 2 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
