When you're working with CSS and need a quick answer, CSS Pocket Reference delivers. This handy, concise book provides all of the essential information you need to implement CSS on the fly. Ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers, the 4th edition is revised and updated for CSS3, the latest version of the Cascading Style Sheet specification. Along with a complete alphabetical reference to CSS3 selectors and properties, you'll also find a short introduction to the key concepts of CSS.
Based on Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, this reference is an easy-to-use cheatsheet of the CSS specifications you need for any task at hand. This book helps you:
Quickly find and adapt the style elements you need
Learn how CSS3 features complement and extend your CSS practices
Discover new value types and new CSS selectors
Implement drop shadows, multiple backgrounds, rounded corners, and border images
Get new information about transforms and transitions
Eric A. Meyer is an internationally recognized expert, author, and speaker on HTML, CSS, and web standards, and the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting (www.complexspiral.com). In addition to writing numerous books on CSS, Eric created the CSS Browser Compatibility Charts and coordinated the authoring and creation of the W3C's official CSS Test Suite.
Comments about O'Reilly Media CSS Pocket Reference, 4th Edition:
I think this is a good book. It was structured and detailed enough. Easy to understand as reference books.
8/19/2011
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
4.0
good CSS reference
By Ivan Mosquera
from Madrid
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Pros
Accurate
Concise
Well-written
Cons
Not good enough indexing
Best Uses
Expert
Intermediate
Comments about O'Reilly Media CSS Pocket Reference, 4th Edition:
Eric A. Meyer , also author of other CSS books like CSS: The Definitive Guide tries to provide a good tool for the daily CSS work.
The book features the following parts:
1. Basic concepts. 2. Values 3. Selectors. 4. Property Reference.
As a pocket reference it is, don't expect learning CSS from this book but a quick reference for your daily work. You'll find a few references to chapters of CSS: The Definitive Guide. This edition is updated to CSS3.
Basic concepts: you'll find a guide to the CSS key concepts. Just and introduction, something which could have been avoided as the reference it is but it's useful having those key concepts together in a few pages.
Values: a reference to the values you can use, descriptive information ordered by different categories like key words, colors, numbers, percentages…
Selectors: a reference to selectors, information structured as pattern, description and examples.
Property Reference : it lacks property categories, an alphabetic list is all you get. You need to know the name of the property you're looking for, which isn't always the case. For each property the information is well structured with: name, values, initial value, applies to, computed value, description, examples and note. Note usually refers to browser compatibility but just generally ("as of 2011″), not a complete browser compatibility reference.
Summary: a good CSS reference, perhaps lacking property categories and better information about browser compatibility.
