Steven Chambers said
I'm a beginning programmer and purchased CSS: The Missing Manual because I needed a solid tutorial that would walk me through the basics. This was that book. Well written and easy to follow with lots of exercises, it brought me from the beginner level up to the mid-level in terms of using CSS.
It is not a reference manual nor is it intended to be one, but I haul it out every time I write code. I refer to it often because it is that good. Excellent follow-up book after you complete Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, which I think should be everyone's first book for HTML/CSS.
Nathaniel A. Foldan said
I just want to add to the high rating of this book. It deserves every star it gets. I have read it cover to cover almost twice and loved it. I have taken some web classes, but This is how I learned CSS. David knows exactly what to say and when to say it.
After reading this I purchased his JavaScript book and was really glad I did. David McFarland has a great talent for writing and explaining things in a very clear way. I don't see any reason to get any other CSS book besides this one.
Anonymous Rex said
I can't add much to what everyone else has already said. This is the first time I've read a book from the Missing Manual series. I don't know whether to credit the author or the series but this is a great book. It was exactly the right speed for me, an old time html curmudgeon who's been wanting to catch up to current standards whenever browser compatibility was ready to handle it. The only criticism I might have is that the third section, the chapter on layout, might have been moved to the front and explained before all the nitty-gritty text formatting was but other than that, I love this book!
Keith Pride said
There are many good ideas in the book - But he jumps around too much and there are partial solutions, meaning... He'll give you:
.label { float:left;
width: 400px;
text-align: right;
clear: left;
Margin-right: -35px;
margin-top: 5px;}
But not show how it's written with the html.
It's a supplemental book at best (for me). I expected more for the $$.
Martijn said
This was my second book on the topic of web design and the perfect follow up to the first I read, "Build your own web site the right way using HTML & CSS" by Ian Lloyd. I'm not going to write an extensive review, but I do want to express my gratitude and award this book with the rating it deserves.
First, two little complaints (I guess I'm the type whose glass is always half empty hahaha). No, seriously, just telling this because I want this book to become even better than it already is.
Somehow I found the tutorials tedious and uninviting. If the author would reformat them so that you could start a tutorial where the other tutorial left off, then you would have a project in progress which would be much more entertaining to work on.
Also the book doesn't explain the normal use of relative positioning and only a much used side effect of it (i.e. establishing a framework relative to which elements can be positioned). Although the chapter dealing with positioning still is the greatest chapter of the book, I feel the book misrepresents relative positioning a little bit. I got this insight by studying further on the subject.
Having said all this, 98% of the book was really, really great and therefore I'm unconditionally giving it five stars. It just provided me with such a wealth of information in such a pleasant way. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best book on the topic.
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