Belongs on every web designer's book shelf

It also does a good job explaining which CSS properties will work in certain browsers, like Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Opera and on various platforms - Windows, Mac, and Unix. Although keep in mind that this book was published in 2000. At that time Internet Explorer was at version 5.0, Netscape was stuck at 4.x, and Opera was at 3.6. During those days, CSS2, and some properties of CSS1, were considered bleeding edge technologies and didn't work well in all browsers and all operating systems. But today, most new browsers are cross-platform and will work with the CSS1 and CSS2 examples in this book without any problems. So even though this book is more than two years old - an eternity in Internet time - the content is even more valuable today than when it was published. Now it's time to get rid of those tables and tags and start stylin'!

CORE CSS - A Gold Mine for Experienced Developers

     Core Cascading Style Sheets is an outstanding, comprehensive guide to writing style sheets for the experienced Web developer. Its strengths are: a) the detailed descriptions of selectors and declarations and their uses; b) the sorting of styles by CSS1 and CSS2; c) the ability of different browsers on different platforms to render individual selectors and declarations. The "gold mine" in this book is the many tables that map styles to browsers with a rating of how the browsers render them. This book could also be very useful for an entry- to mid-level developer if mentoring by an experienced developer were available. The mentoring would have to guide the less experienced developer through the HTML 4.0/4.01 standard to ensure that the styles and their accompanying HTML would validate. [The book provides HTML examples using some deprecated tags (e.g., , ). Also, there could be some surprises when trying to validate some of the styles. For example, the W3C validator wants some color declarations to be accompanied by a background color - even if it is transparent.]

Excellent Reference for CSS

     This is book is the best book I found so far about CSS. There is one chapter for each Major property. One chapter for Fonts talking about how to set the Family, Size, Style, Variant, and Weight. Another chapter for Color and another for Borders and Units and Text and Boxes and the list go on and on. If you want to know about any particular property you'll find it and understand it in less than 2 minutes, gauranteed!! Personally I read the whole book in 1 week and learned a lot. I already know HTML and JavaScript very well and this book helped me to manage all my styles in one single file, I then included this file in all my web pages. A single change in this file will work for all web pages no matter how many they are. It's like magic! The preivew that was talking about inline vs external CSS is totally wrong. If you know how to write inline then you know external other wise sorry dude you don't know CSS.

Summary: This book is for people who want a very simple and easy way to find out about any CSS property. I recommend that the person who buy this book should know JavaScript and of course HTML and basic CSS will be even better.