CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition) at Dominant Systems Book Store

With CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the stylesheet language, or skip ahead to any chapter of the book to look up specific tasks covering just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions, and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users CSS. Best-selling author Jason Cranford Teague takes readers through today's CSS essentials and provides extensive coverage of CSS3 and CSS 2.1 techniques. The book outlines what can be done with CSS3 now and how the latest browsers have implemented many of the new features. Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to CSS, and more advanced users, who are looking for a convenient reference, will find what they need here in straightforward language and through readily accessible examples.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I am already comfortable with using CSS with my web design, but being self taught, I wanted something to round off my knowledge of the language, as well as prepare me for the future that is CSS Level 3. I really applaud the way this book is designed and the Author takes time to thoroughly walk you through the steps of implementing what he's teaching. Downloadable files from his website are perfect and contain just about every Selector and Declaration he teaches in the book. The book also dives into the new HTML 5 standard, and teaches that along side CSS3, because, really HTML 5 and CSS3 need to be together. Having read HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Piglrim before I read through this book, I was already aware of all the new elements that I could style, and that helped me get through the book more efficiently. A very straight forward book, very nicely laid out, and a few chapters at the end to help you get the most out of CSS3. However I did find a few problems, including a few very very minor typos. The typos should cause very minimal confusion if any, so I wouldn't worry about that. However there was one major flaw I found in his code. Internet Explorer has a mode called "Quirks Mode", a backwards compatible mode that helps to display older web pages more "correctly". The author states at the end of the book, that your web pages will usually always trigger Quirks Mode in all versions of IE. And this was true, using the author's demo files, I could NOT get HTML5 and CSS3 elements to display properly (if at all). It took me a while to figure out why this was, as Internet Explorer 9 (of which I have the beta for as of this review) was supposed to support most if not all of the new standards. Then it hit me! The author of this book has a slight bad habit of placing comments (in the case of his book the <!-- HTML5 --

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