CSS - The Missing Manual (2006)

CSS: The Missing Manual is divided into four parts, each containing several chapters:

Part 1, CSS Basics, shows you how to create style sheets and provides an overview of key CSS concepts, like inheritance, selectors, and the cascade. Along the way, you'll learn the best HTML/XHTML writing practices when working with CSS. Four tutorials reinforce the part's main concepts and give you a good taste of the power of CSS.

Part 2, Applied CSS, takes you into the real world of Web design. You'll learn the most important CSS properties and how to use them to format text, create useful navigation tools, and enhance your page with graphics. This section also provides advice on how to make Web pages look better when printed and how to make attractive tables and forms.

Part 3, CSS Page Layout, helps you with one of the most confusing, but most rewarding, aspects of CSS: controlling the placement of elements on a page. You'll learn how to create common designs (like 2 and 3-column layouts) and how to add sidebars. You'll also learn about floats and positioningtwo common CSS techniques for controlling page layout.

Part 4, Advanced CSS, teaches you how to make web pages look good when printed and covers advanced techniques for using CSS more effectively and efficiently.

Part 5, Appendixes, provides three sets of resources. The CSS Property Reference summarizes each CSS Property in small, easy-to-digest, chunks so you can casually brush-up on what you already know, or quickly learn about other useful CSS properties that you may not remember. The last two appendices cover tools and resources for creating and using CSS, from how to create CSS in Dreamweaver to lists of helpful Web sites and books.
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