The Ultimate CSS Reference
I have never been all that inclined to believe anything that claims to be the ultimate anything but this book comes so close to fulfilling that promise that I will have to reconsider that view. This CSS Reference makes waste paper of all the rest.
My Rating: 
Pros
- Covers all aspects of CSS1, CSS2, and the part of CSS3 that at least some browsers support.
- Laid out in a logical way with the information presented in an order that makes sense.
- Covers all the major browsers and clearly identifies which browsers have no support or buggy support for the various commands..
- Gives good advise on which proprietary code is worth spending time on.
- Relates everything both to the standards and the browsers..
Cons
- Given where the authors and publishers are located the use of American rather than English was disappointing.
Description
- First Edition: February 2008
- 420 page hardcover
- Published by SitePoint
- ISBN: 0-9802858-5-2
- Authors Tommy Olsson and Paul O'Brien
Review
The authors of this book have an in depth knowledge of Cascading StyleSheets that few others could match. I already knew that much about them from the answers that they were providing to people on the SitePoint forums. What I was wondering though was how that would be reflected in a reference book. The answer surprised me because this book is just about the easiest to use computer book that I have come across.
This book extremely well organised so as to make it easy to find out exactly what you need to know relating to CSS. It is complete in that all of the code that can be used with current (and some not so current) browsers is fully covered.
Not only is every aspect of CSS covered in depth but the book also gives useful advise as to which things that it covers that you should avoid using. Where other CSS books might omit the garbage codes that you should never use leading many to believe that the book just left out some of the commands, this book lists those as well and then tells you not to use them.
With this book on stylesheets on your bookshelf you have that subject fully covered.
