A complete and thorough and up-to-date reference guide for CSS.
Stop wasting time doing Internet searches only to find inaccurate, out-of-date, or incomplete information. CSS: The Ultimate Reference includes all the ins-and-outs you need to know including compatability information for all major browsers, lists of useful hacks, known bugs in CSS, and much more - all presented in a beautiful, full color layout that will have you coming back over and over again.
Coverage includes:
CSS 2.1 syntax and specifications, including features from current CSS 3 working drafts that are implemented in one or more major browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera), and useful browser-specific features
A clear and concise guide to the CSS cascade, including compatability information, known bugs and useful CSS hacks
A media type guide, with coverage of which media types apply in which user agents under what conditions.
A quick-reference guide to currently supported at-rules (@import, @media, etc.).
An alphabetical property reference
Chapter 1 What Is CSS?
CSS Versions
Linking CSS to a Web Document
Media Queries
Standards Mode, Quirks Mode, and Doctype Sniffing
Summary
Chapter 2 General Syntax and Nomenclature
Statements
At-rules
Rule Sets
Selectors
Declaration Blocks
Declarations, Properties, and Values
CSS Comments
CSS Identifiers
CSS Escape Notation
CSS Syntax Errors
Summary
Chapter 3 At-rules Reference
@charset
@import
@media
@page
@font-face
@namespace
Chapter 4 Selector Reference
Universal Selector
Element Type Selector
Class Selector
ID Selector
Attribute Selector
Selector Grouping
Combinators
Pseudo-classes
Pseudo-elements
Chapter 5 The Cascade, Specificity, and Inheritance
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This book is billed as "A complete and thorough and up-to-date reference guide for CSS."
The content of the book is up to date as of the time of printing but with the ever changing draft of CSS it won't be up-to-date for long. Don't get me wrong. It is a good refrence book and they do a good job of explaining what each tag does.
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