You know you should use cascading style sheets (CSS) to simplify your web pages, but how do you use CSS? Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours, Second Edition is a carefully organized, well-written tutorial that teaches you not only how to use cascading style sheets, but also how to make smart decisions about how and when to apply CSS, based on browser support and intended effects. You'll cover standards compliant CSS, with an emphasis on providing both a theoretical understanding and practical experience at implementing CSS.   In 24 straightforward one-hour long lessons, you learn by accomplishing hands-on tasks that can be applied to your own site. The tutorials have been updated for this second edition to cover browsers that have become more widely used since the release of the first edition. It also has been updated to cover styling of forms, troubleshooting CSS, and other important new developments.

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Learning to apply CSS is the HTML Web publisher's next developmental step toward a professional and stable Web design. A prerequisite to learning higherlevel languages like Javascript, Java, and Flash, CSS is gaining increasing support among major browsers, including Netscape, Internet Explorer (together 94% market share) and newcomers Opera, Mozilla and NeoPlanet, and backwardscompatibility with older browser versions and specialized browsers.

The key to successful CSS implementation is in understanding how different browsers use and interpret CSS. This tutorial takes the unique position of teaching the reader how to make smart decisions about how and when to apply CSS, based on browser support and intended effects. In 24 straightforward, hourly lessons, the reader learns by accomplishing handson tasks that can be applied to his own site in every hour. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours) (Paperback) Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is one of the essential skills needed for web development. The greater degree of control that they give you over the appearance of your pages is well worth any and all effort it takes to learn how to use them. Fortunately, with this book in your hand that effort will be minimal. I have taught CSS several times in a community education setting, but not for over a year. In an attempt to refresh my skills, I examined this book and went through a few of the more detailed examples. They all worked well and I learned several features of CSS that will be used in future classes. I also now recommend this book to students who ask for help in choosing a book to continue their study of CSS. There is one obvious drawback to the book and that is the lack of color. One of the main advantages of using CSS is the excellent control it gives you over the use of colors. While the author makes an honest attempt to fill in the details with text, it simply is not enough to give you the full experience of how the colors will appear. The coverage is thorough and the author also spends a great deal of time explaining the differing support of CSS in the major browsers. This is done via a series of charts called browser report cards and really helps to clarify what will appear, as the support for CSS among the browsers is somewhat arbitrary. In my teaching of CSS, my examples demonstrate many features, not all of which are supported. Students find this confusing and any information about the relative support is very helpful. This is a sound book that will either get you up to speed or refresh your knowledge of CSS in a very short time. Maybe not quite in 24 hours, but close enough so that the difference is not significant.