Advanced CSS books
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- Dancer
Have done a quick search and nothing yet.
I have been building websites for about 5 years and have a relatively good understanding o of CSS/XHTML but I feel there is still more advanced techniques to understand. Can anyone recommend some good CSS books that will teach me more advanced techniques.
thanks
- uan0
read the online manual....
...i use a german lookup-site that I consult while writing code:
http://de.selfhtml.org
...don't know about the english equivalent
- 7point340
what are you trying to do exactly?
not trying to sound like a shit, just curious.
most of it just comes with trial and error. you learn some of the less-common styles when you end up having hack something usually. at least that is what i've found.
beyond that i'd say take a look at www.csszengarden.com which might bive you an idea of what can be accomplished with css, especially if you can completely separate the xhtml from the style. cool concept, i think
- Dancer0
Nothing in particular really...
just more a slick and efficient build... inheritance and better accessability
- airey0
if you're good at it then the best way forward is online. there's more and more good cutting edge stuff around, the only issue with it being it's browser acceptance.
some leads (but i'm not great at css so these may be below what you're after):
• http://www.456bereastreet.com/la…
• http://andybudd.com/links/well_d…plus you'd do well to look through the css gallery sites and learn from others experiments.
- airey0
also, start learning jquery if you haven't already. then teach me cause i'm struggling with both time and brain.
- IRNlun60
I like "Transcending CSS" by Andy Clarke. It dabbles a little into CSS3 which obviously isn't supported by some browsers but I still felt it was good read.
- epikore0
Can someone explain why the underline only when hovering a link works in IE but not firefox?
- a:hover
text-decoration:unde... doesnt work in ff?uan - Yeah, for some reason it works on some of the links and not the othersepikore
- I'm not sure if it's visited links and non visitied linksepikore
- man, i'm sounding like my retarded juniorepikore
- are you not?;-)
start with a a:link, then a:hover, then a:active.uan - or maybe you have a css conflict somewhere...use webdeveloper tools ff add-on or firebug to debug.uan
- a:hover
- epikore0
I have a love and hate relationship with CSS.
- airey0
<rant>
actually, i have to kinda rant here. when i started learning css i bought a few books from around the traps which included Andy Budd, eric mayer, some online stuff and a few sitepoint books. obviously there was a lot of cross-over which was good as repetition is obviously a good was for morons like myself to learn.
anyways, doing so i really got annoyed with the sitepoint books i had. they were badly written and the solutions weren't even close to the best methods shown collectively by many of the others. i realise there are multiple solutions but many of there's were long, glitchy and shite and when most of the best on the web are telling you the same way it seems off that self-described experts would do otherwise.
now i only have this limited experience and many reviews and happy comments mean that sitepoint must know what they're doing but in the css arena i was very disappointed. they seem to talk a good game but don't actually back it up.
just wanted to share my opinion to balance out the never ending sitepoint propaganda that fills my inbox.
</rant>
- speaking of badly written. excuse the crap writing of the rant. or ignore it. either or.airey
- epikore0
CSS is so pretty