Css: The Missing Manual

By Center for Christian Leadership

CSS lets you create professional-looking websites, but learning its finer points can be tricky--even for seasoned web developers. This fully updated edition provides the most modern and effective tips, tricks, and tutorial-based instruction on CSS available today. Learn how to use new tools such as Flexbox and Sass to build web pages that look great and run fast on any desktop or mobile device. Ideal for casual and experienced designers alike.

The important stuff you need to know: Start with the basics. Write CSS-friendly HTML, including the HTML5 tags recognized by today's browsers. Design for mobile devices. Create web pages that look great when visitors use them on the go. Make your pages work for you. Add animations that capture the imagination, and forms that get the job done. Take control of page layouts. Use professional design techniques such as floats and positioning. Make your layouts more flexible. Design websites with Flexbox that adjust to different devices and screen sizes. Work more efficiently. Write less CSS code and work with smaller files, using Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491918055
• ISBN13: 9781491918050
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 715 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book on CSS

The problem with many of the CSS books that I have read is that most of them just reiterate the CSS specification. While this is useful knowledge, it doesn't cover what you need to know to build robust web applications that work consistently across the myriad of browsers on the internet. This book covers the usual stuff with CSS: styles, precedence rules (the cascade), text and fonts, padding and spacing, the box model,...

Excellent book for newbies and intermediate coders alike...

I've read and reviewed a number of books on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and I've learned something from them all. But for whatever reason, this one showed up at just the right time and has me inspired and motivated on a new project... CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland. Contents: Part 1 - CSS Basics: Rethinking HTML for CSS; Creating Styles and Style Sheets; Selector Basics - Identifying What to Style;...

For the Beginner -- Approved by an Expert

§ Consider this a "getting started the right way with HTML and CSS" book. As such, it does a marvelous job. I had a chance to get this beginner's book -- even though my bosses have been grossly overpaying me for years if I really were a beginner! Too many beginner books tend to over-simplify, which becomes a barrier to the more complex issues that a serious beginner will meet down the line. That is not the case here. Step...

The prefect place to start with!

I started builing my own site early this year with Dreamweaver 8 and "Missing Manual: Dreamweaver 8" helps me a lot. After a while, I find it very difficult to maintain and change with all those "table formating" and I decided to change to pure XHTML with CSS. After spending months of time on looking at numbers of web sites and books. I can now recommand you to do following (if you are new to XHTML and XSS):- (1) Read "First...

A Great Way to Learn CSS!

After searching online and experiencing countless CSS tutorials, I have to say that this book ranks at the absolute top for learning CSS. From the straight-forward examples to the "easy reading" writing style, I have really enjoyed adding to my newbie knowledge of CSS. If you're tired of trying CSS tutorials that leave you more confused afterwards than you were going in, stop the madness and invest in this manual. I am only...