CSS Book Recommendations

Good CSS books anyone?

[Bad80sHair]

Coming traditionally from a 'drawing pretty pictures' background, David Siegel's "Creating Killer Web Sites Book" took me up that next step to reasonably well-designed HTML pages.

Several years down the track, as I'm beginning to understand and embrace CSS, is there a similarly easy-to-read, yet comprehensive, printed bible for CSS-based web design?

Has anyone else who occassionally finds slabs of CSS a little confusing found a really good book that just sets it all out straight, without making you feel like an idiot?

[Nick_W]

I've only ever had need to use html & xhtml the complete guide from oreilly. The rest I get at w3c, here and a few other places...

Nick

[webbguy]

I'm not sure it qualifies as a bible but "HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS" is pretty good. I picked it up about a month ago and have been impressed with both the printed content and related sample code. It has certainly helped me as I have developed some tableless pages on my personal site... which I may even dare to integrate into some of the other sites I work on.

[your_store]

I'm partial to CSS: Seperating Content from Presentation by Owen Briggs, et all.

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[Ryan8720]

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[aaronjf]

Count me in with your_store on Separating Content from Presentation. I got it about a month and a half ago and have been happy with it. Although I just ordered Nick_w's suggestion of html & xhtml the complete guide from oreilly. I thumbed through it a couple of days ago and it looked interesting. Thought it might have something Separating Content from Presentation missed or from another angle.

You might also take a wander around CSSZenGarden [csszengarden.com]

[photon]

Check out the two books by Eric Meyer. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide from O'Reilly is more of a nuts and bolts approach. Unfortunately, it just hints at CSS2 and nothing on CSS3 (someone correct me if I'm wrong; it's been a while). The second one--Eric Meyer on CSS--takes more of a "let's see what this puppy can do" approach.

And definitely check out the CSS Zen Garden, my standard answer to anyone who asks "Why would I want to use CSS?".

[photon]

Forgot to add there's a great mailing list (css-d) that is almost as good for information as the CSS forum here (high praise indeed). :)

[Reflection]

Are there any good books that are in a tutorial format where each tutorial is sort of designed to address common issues with the css(ex box model)?

[Captain Tuba]

<Are there any good books that are in a tutorial format?>

Yes, both these are:
Eric Meyer on CSS and
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by example - Steve Callihan

Both have companion sites that allow you to download tutorial files.
Both books allow you to dip in and out as you require.
The Eric Meyer book is glossy colour and written in a friendly and engaging manner.
The Steve Callihan book is more factual with a handy CSS reference appendix.

Plus there's tonnes of stuff on-line.
Go get some, take it apart and put it back together again.

Cheers
C.T.

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[Yoeri]

I just bought "Designing with web standards" from Jeffrey Zeldman. The book is great. It guides you through the possibilities and advantages of using xhtml and css, with real-world examples.

I also read "Cascading style sheets: seperating content from presentation" from Eric Meyer.

These are both great books to learn more about css and xhtml web design.