Reddit reviews CSS: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)

CSS: The Missing Manual. Clear, concise, and a real gorram book.

Enjoy!

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I was in the same boat as you last year. Over the Winter I read a few books that finally made CSS and the DOM click in my head; the two best were

CSS: The Missing Manual

jQuery Animation Techniques


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I like this book CSS: The Missing Manual

I don't know how much CSS you know but this book is fantastic.

http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Missing-David-Sawyer-McFarland/dp/0596802447/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330644440&sr=8-1

Thanks I'm going to order this book - CSS The missing Manual

Don't really feel confident enough just yet to tear up all my hard work and change it all to CSS. But i'll certainly give it a crack sometime soon...

If you can suggest any good books for total novices, that would be great!

Thanks again,
H

This book helped me go from wingin' it to actually knowing what I'm doing:

CSS: The Missing Manual

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML is pretty good for the absolute basics, DOM Scripting for beginning JavaScript, and CSS: The Missing Manual for CSS.

By the time you finish working through those, the 2nd edtion of jQuery in Action should be out. I have the pre-release version through the publisher, and it's coming along well. You can make do with the 1st edition or even the online documentation is pretty good if you want to dive in before that.

If you're in the US at least, all these books should be available through your local library, or inter-library loan at the worst. Also, I think most if not all of them are in O'Reilly Safari, which is the best value in ongoing education out there at the moment.

When I started, I picked up O'Reilly's Missing Manual for CSS. I found it really useful for getting my head around the concepts and quirks. Unlike w3schools or reference sites, the book actually presents the rationale behind CSS and the problems it is designed to solve. Work through examples with something like JSFiddle, so that you get instant feedback. After you get a feel for the basics, pick something you see on another website and try to emulate it.