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* Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web developers to define styles to apply to items on thousands of Web pages, rather than marking up the formatting of each item individually
* The fantastically successful first edition introduced readers to Richard York's unparalleled CSS skills and this edition offers updates for Firefox 2, Internet Explorer, and other browsers with improved CSS support
* Uses a standardized approach to CSS in an example-packed, step-by-step format, with all of the book's examples in full-color screen shots
* The new color layout in this edition shows readers full-color results and uses color as a teaching tool in emphasizing coding techniques
* Other key enhancements to this edition include updated discussions of new Web browser versions (Internet Explorer 7 and others) and their CSS improvements

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Offers updates for Firefox 2, Internet Explorer, and other browsers, with CSS support. This book contains step-by-step format and full-color examples which provide you with explanations so that you can define styles to apply to several items on Web pages, rather than marking up the formatting of each item individually.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 5 people found the following review helpful: Thorough but sometimes plodding, 20 Aug 2007 By  Mr. Thomas Orton "Rosewood" (UK) - See all my reviews    This review is from: Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback) This is a very good book for beginners at CSS. It covers each topic very thoroughly, with examples and exercises throughout, so I don't think you could possibly go away without understanding the topics covered. It doesn't cover much fancy stuff such as colouring the browser scrollbars or from input fields etc but it does give a good grounding in how CSS works and the concepts, including a thorough coverage of liquid design, the CSS box model, buoyancy etc which are all absolute core concepts if you want to create a professional-looking website (without using messy/hard-to-maintain (and sooo yesterday!) tables for layout). Once you know the above the fancy stuff is just a question of picking up from a website which CSS properties to use. Also if you can't be bothered to type out all the code for the examples and exercises, you can download it in one go from the publisher's website. As the book contains a lot of code, this saves lots of time. I've docked off a star only because at times the thoroughness can get a little much (at least for me), to the point of plodding. There is a fair amount of recapitulation through explanations and examples and he seems sometimes to assume no common sense. For example instead of saying "property Y can be applied in the same way as property X" he may insist on going into detail again on property Y. Also it can get tedious going through every single change made to some of the examples especially if there are many small changes and you've already grasped from the previous explanation what properties X,Y and Z do. If you really don't like plodding, you might not like this book. That said I would rather a book that is plodding and makes sure I understand it than one which races through leaving me unsure about things, and I recognise that some of the thoroughness and detail may be useful when I come across a problem, especially with my CSS box model layout, and need to go back to a thorough explanation. This review by the way is for the non-colour edition; an up-to-date colour edition is now out.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews