Our Pick: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

Besides teaching the fundamentals selectors and CSS inheritance, this books devotes a whole chapter to each of the three CSS layouts -- from the simple CSS layout to the complex three-column layout, and the fixed width layout.

It also covers validation, backward compatibility, quirks mode, doctype switching. Plus a section on the benefits of CSS.

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Our Pick: The CSS Anthology 2nd Edition

This is the second edition of the book which covers Internet Explorer 7.0.

An intermediate level book that shows you how to make tableless complex layouts. One strong point of the book is that the whole of chapter 7 covers cross-browser techniques such as the box model hack, star html hack, conditional comments, and PNG transparancy in IE6.

We throughly enjoy reviewing this book. So we have a lots more to say about it. Read more.

Art and Science of CSS

Five authors. Seven chapters. In full-color. View Unmoderated Reviews

Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide

Good coverage of CSS layouts (2 and 3 columns layouts) and CSS menus (horizontal, multiple-levels, and drop downs).

What I like about this book is that nice annotations right next to the code lines so that I can easily see what each code line does without having to read the paragraph text.

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Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns

There are many elements in web design that you have to build over and over again. Design patterns are code that you can use over and over again instead of re-inventing the wheel. There are over 350 patterns in this book all cross-browser tested in Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 2, Opera 9, and Safari 2.

There is in-depth coverage of the CSS box model (all six of them). So this is an advanced book. Learn to create round corners, shadows, replace text with image while maintaining accessibility, tab menus (p394), flyout menu (p402), and more.