Html Style Sheets Quick Reference (Que Quick Reference Series) [Paperback]

Rob Falla (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997 | Series: Que Quick Reference Series

This book is an excellent desktop reference for all tags used to create style sheets as well as all existing HTML tags that can be used within them.

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HTML Style Sheets are the latest innovation in Web design that allow authors to assure a consistent look and feel across their pages with one simple command. Includes jump-tables that guide readers through the command reference center, style sheet tags, and related HTML usage. - Pages of jump-tables guide readers through the command reference

- See how existing HTML commands are used within style sheets

- Learn how to find the syntax needed for any style sheet tag

Product Details

• Paperback: 203 pages
• Publisher: Que Pub; 1st edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789710358
• ISBN-13: 978-0789710352
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,362,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Syntax oriented guide to CSS, March 21, 2009

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Kiernan Holland (Los Alamos, NM) - See all my reviews
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This book is more for programmers that have to decipher the style sheets of confused designers, like the other two people that rated this book. :^P I had a look at it and determined that a book iss probably not the best medium for this book but a web page because all the syntax references are to other pages in the book (can you say "hypercard?").. That's where the idea for HTML came anyhow, was tim berners-lee was inspired by hypercard, and this book was probably written first as html and then converted into a book with some application for that purpose. A big problem with the 90s was that people were buying up anything that breathed "web" and authors were taking man pages from unix and printing them up as reference manaual (ie O'Reilly books).. If you aree away from your computer or don't want to both searching the web for information on CSS syntax, this is probably the book for you, to piece-wise decipher css. You could maybe use it to determine what options you have for each part of syntax.. If it hadn't been oragnized to be self referential, it would have been a much thicker book, and probably a burden to deal with. Also for some parts of syntax it gives suggestions on what might be better choices.

I don't know if it is correct or not, I'm merely giving my perception of it from what I've read so far.

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless as a brick, December 18, 2001

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M. Amburn (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Html Style Sheets Quick Reference (Que Quick Reference Series) (Paperback)

This quick reference doesn't do you any good. The information is formatted in such an illogical fashion -- I've yet to figure out the logic, in fact -- that I haven't been able to find anything I was looking for. Get O'Reilly's Definitive Guide to DHTML or CSS. You'll spend just as much time looking it up in one of the O'Reilly books, but you'll at least find what you're looking for.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a great reference, but the most complete one out there., January 23, 1998

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Levi (Reston, VA, United States) - See all my reviews
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Not the best reference guide to Style Sheets, but the only one I've found that offers this kind of reference. The book was not organized except alphabetically by item name. Sure the author assigned each item a category like "colors and backgrounds" but there was no list of categories or arrangement of items by category so I'm not sure why he even included the categories to begin with. Besides this, at least half of the 170-odd pages are taken up with references to other related items with the page number for these other items. Useless! If I need to find an item that's related, I can just flip through the book and find it immediately since everything's in alphabetical order. Another dissapointment was that there was no coverage of what tags would work in which browsers. This is copyrighted 1997, so maybe it came out before IE and Netscape 4.0 versions (this seems likely because the only reference and screenshots are of IE 3.01. But as far as I know many of these style sheet items do not work with IE 3.01 but it says nothing about this. Finally, there are a few code examples in the book which seem to be totally random. Either save the paper and don't include any, or include a a whole bunch. Instead there are maybe 3 or 4 scattered throught the entire book and are thus not of much help. Unfortunately, this seems to be the most exhaustive reference devoted solely to style sheets that I've seen out there, including references on the web. I know there are references to HTML 4.0 which include references to to style sheets and wonder how they compare...