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  • Paperback: 516 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 2 edition (17 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596527411
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596527419
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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As the industry standard method for enriching the presentation of HTML-based web pages, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow you to give web pages more structure and a more sophisticated look. But first, you have to get past CSS theory and resolve real-world problems. For those all-too-common dilemmas that crop up with each project, "CSS Cookbook" provides hundreds of practical examples with CSS code recipes that you can use immediately to format your web pages. Arranged in a quick-lookup format for easy reference, the second edition has been updated to explain the unique behavior of the latest browsers: Microsoft's IE 7 and Mozilla's Firefox 1.5. Also, the book has been expanded to cover the interaction of CSS and images and now includes more recipes for beginning CSS users. The explanation that accompanies each recipe enables you to customize the formatting for your specific needs. With topics that range from basic web typography and page layout to techniques for formatting lists, forms, and tables, this book is a must-have companion, regardless of your experience with Cascading Style Sheets.


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The CSS Cookbook cuts straight through the theory to provide hundreds of useful examples and CSS code recipes you can use immediately to format your web pages. Reflecting CSS2 and including topics that range from basic web typography and page layout to techniques for formatting lists, forms, and tables, the CSS Cookbook is a must-have resource for any web author who has even considered using CSS. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Some very handy recipes ..., 21 Oct 2004
This review is from: CSS Cookbook (Paperback)
This book is not for the CSS initiate as it does not provide a CSS reference, systematically describe CSS syntax, or tell you exactly how Cascading Style Sheets do cascade. However, if you already have some CSS knowledge, then this will be one of the most useful books you will buy if you want to design web sites.

It provides a large number of recipes covering a wide range of CSS problems you are likely to need to solve at some time. The code examples can all downloaded from the O'Reilly web site as well as many of the images referenced in the book.

Christopher Schmitt has organised this book beautifully, with each recipe presented in a 'Problem, Solution, Discussion, See Also' format. The problems are described concisely and clearly, as are the solutions. Schmitt then discusses the solutions in some detail, and the use of discussion sections is one of the best features of the book. The 'See Also' sections give valuable pointers to other books but principally to other web sites where more detailed information is available, in particular the relevant parts of the CSS 2.1 specification.

As with every book, there are a few minor niggles, but these are insignificant compared to the benefit you will obtain. It provides what is says on the cover - quick solutions to common CSS problems - and more, as you will understand CSS much better after using this book.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars OK but I'm sure there's better out there, 6 Jan 2006
By Mr. Robin M. Waite "waiterm3" (Stroud, Gloucestershire) - See all my reviews
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Having bought the book, I've actually found I very rarely use it. It seems to be a little out of date in terms of the content and examples given when you look at what CSS can actually be used for.

I was hoping for instant solutions to CSS problems as and when they crop up but found my problems very difficult to put in context with regards to this book.

The W3C tutorials are more help, in fact the google and the www generally is more help than this book as a reference guide. Not really recommended.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars There are much better alternatives, 26 Oct 2006
By Antonio Oliveira "tomane23" (Aveiro, Portugal) - See all my reviews
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As a cookbook, it doesn't shine very much. The examples provided are averagely useful at best and it's not a "pure" CSS cookbook. Some examples include javascript and CSS is only indirectly related to them.
When working with HTML/CSS I found the combination of CSS, The Definitive Guide and some quick googling much more productive than with this cookbook.
The biggest advantage that I can see in it is that you can read the material offline and some trivial techniques are easily accessed. However It doesn't provide the recipes that we need for more complex designs by a long shot.
The 3 stars are mostly for the clean structure of the book; a section about the problem exposes clearly what our goals are, and then the code is shown along with an explanation/discussion of the technique employed.
It's not an essential resource about CSS, there are a lot more places where you can get better ideas for solutions to more complex (and useful) CSS problems, so I can't recommend it at all...
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