Can anyone recommend a good CSS book?

[bigtone]

As it says really!

Working with a new CMS that relies fairly heavily on three separate CSS files, but I can't get my head around ID's and Classes etc, so thought a bit of bed time reading might help to sort things out - Can anyone suggest a good one for both beginners and moving towards slightly more advanced code?

Cheers, Tony

[sccbishop]

Have a look down the left hand navigation on this page, should tell you everything you need to know

www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

[PetrolTed]

Bonce recommended a book to me last year and it's transformed the way I write HTML (I could never have done the Calendar in traditional HTML!

The one to read is Designing with Web Standards

and the second good read is

Eric Meyer on CSS

Neither book is too heavy. A few evenings reading them changed my life! (That's a bit sad isn't it.)

[jsr]

I recently taught myself using 'More Eric Meyer on CSS' - definitely recommended

[Bodo]

I don't have a CSS book recommendation, but I use an online documentation as a reference. It is mainly in German, but parts of it were already translated into English: http://en.selfhtml.org/css/index.htm

I use text-editors to build html-pages, so the EditCSS-plugin in Firefox is very good for fiddleing CSS on the fly. Once installed, you get a command to the right mouse button menu for Edit CSS. Using it opens the style sheet of the page seen in the browsing window in the side bar. All changes made in the style sheet are immediately seen in your page.



(pic shows Edit CSS from Firefox' Web Developer extension)

[jsr]

That's pretty cool.

Does anyone know if a tool exists that can generate style sheets that work the same in all/most browsers? I doubt such a tool exists

[Tripps]

jsr said:

That's pretty cool. Does anyone know if a tool exists that can generate style sheets that work the same in all/most browsers? I doubt such a tool exists

Dreamweaver MX is pretty hot I'm told, although I've not done much cross-browser work with it...