CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1449399037
• ISBN13: 9781449399030
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Really handy!

CSS, or "Cascading Style Sheets" is the language used to tell a web page what you want it to look like -- to "style" the web page, in other words. This book isn't intended to take you from the moment you learned the term to really knowing how to use it. It's intended to keep you from having to remember all the little details, or having to look them up in your giant textbook. The book begins with a quick overview of the purpose and rules of CSS. Then comes the main part: a list of selectors and properties. Each listing includes the values, initial value, what it applies to, whether it is inherited, percentages if that's relevant, the computed value, and then a description. So, for example, the entry for "background-color" tells us that we can specify the background color for our web page by using , that it can be transparent, that we can specify that it inherits, and that it applies to all elements. Then it goes on to say exactly what this property will do ("...sets a solid color for the background of the element") and what kinds of problems we might have with this when using different browsers. For more complex choices, there will also be examples. Having described everything from :active to widows, the book finishes up with a list of older terms that are no longer used. There is a thorough index, as well. You'll pull this off your shelf often if you write web pages, whether to check the options for bullets in your unordered lists or to find out what the mysterious term Dreamweaver offered you might mean. It's small enough to stick in a pocket and complete enough to be a useful reference for beginners or experienced users.

Excellent Pocket-sized Reference Tool

You can't go wrong with this one-stop shopping reference book on CSS. You need to know or, at least, have a familiarity with CSS to take advantage of this tool. Highly recommended for CSS geeks & web designers. Eric Meyer is The Man.

best cheat sheet out there

Exactly what I was looking for - all the codes needed for CSS at my fingertips, in a compact, easy to carry size. Great reference!

Works like expected.

I've used this pocket reference for a long time now and I love it. It's a great way to refresh your memory when you can't seem to remember a property and/or its value. Although I must say that I refer to it much less now than I did when I first got it. Mostly because I know most of the properties and values by heart at this point and so I can use IDEs "IntelliSense" features. Consequently, I must add that this is not a teaching aid. You will not learn how to style with CSS from this book! There are much better books on the topic! (For example: "Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design")

Fits in your pocket - 2nd Edition

This small, handy book is packed with CSS references perfect for grabbing and flipping through when looking for that one piece of code to add to your site. It is not a book about learning CSS. This reference book is a alphabetical listing of CSS selectors and properties. As I was learning CSS I found this book very helpful in locating quickly the code I was looking for.