A good solid groundwork in CSS for folks like me who learn best through figuring out how to do a specific task, rather than starting with the absolute fundamentals first.

campionario di soluzioni pronte e di facile lettura, ma che si mantiene di livello introduttivo

This is a brilliant reference book. Very visual with lots of colour which is important for visually inclined web designers

I started reading it after a lot of recommendations but it wasn't gone up to the standards. Maybe it's just me, but I was expecting more.

This is the best CSS book I have found.

Very good CSS Beginers. Very readable writting style.

CSS tips, tricks & hacks - just like it says on the can. Very useful format. After you've learned what CSS is, this is the ideal next book on the topic, prior to something more advanced.

Well, I never got far into this book and had to take it back to the library...

Should I use pixels, points, ems, or another unit identifier to set font sizes? How do I form elements using CSS? How do I set an item’s position on the page using CSS?

The CSS Anthology sets out a question and answer type of resource. Most people using this book will be browsing the topics for solutions to particular problems. However, if worked through from start to finish, this book would even serve beginners well.

The CSS Anthology is complete with full code and illustrations. I find this aspect is particularly useful for trying out different approaches. The book also contains a lot of good tips about compatibility and when CSS is not the best choice.

Set up as questions posed with clear answers, this CSS handbook is probably the best problem solver book I have found. As my students ask about their design problems, most solutions can be found with clear examples, and sample code.

It is a highly recommended book to use to understand the fundamentals of designing with CSS

E' un ottimo testo per imparare i primi rudimenti dei CSS. Attualmente risulta un po' datato visto l'uso ormai consolidato dei CSS3. Ad ogni modo molte tecniche rimangono ottime e aiutano a comprendere meglio (e ricordare) come andrebbero trattati certi problemi e contesti. Gli esempi sono molto buoni e spesso specificati passo passo. Il codice è fondamentalmente semplice e lo si può seguire bene grazie a spiegazioni molto precise e un linguaggio adatto a tutti. Insomma, un libro che fa bene a chi vuole imparare, ma anche a chi ha già imparato e vuole ricordare meglio.

I read this book just after reading HTML Utopia HTML Utopia by the same author. (See my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...).

This book suffers from many of the same problems as HTML Utopia -- it's quite out of date. Specifically, it doesn't talk about HTML5 or CSS3 (neither of which were around at the time). Now, at least, the author has published a new edition: The CSS3 Anthology: Take Your Sites To New Heights, 4th Edition which apparently talks about CSS3 and HTML5 ; I haven't read that version, so can't really review it.

This book consists of a very short introduction to CSS, and then provides a large number of "Tips, Tricks and Hacks" using HTML and CSS. While this is definitely useful, I dislike books that focus on "tricks and hacks", since I believe they tend to encourage people to just copy code without understanding it properly. Most of these so-called "tricks" are relatively obvious if you understand CSS and how it relates to HTML. If you spent the time to thoroughly understand CSS and HTML, you could probably figure out all these "tricks" for yourself. On the other hand, the book does provide a useful background, and does explain how things work pretty well.

I suspect that I would give the latest edition of this book a higher star rating, as I presume it is more up to date (although its publish date is March 2012, and a lot has happened since even then).