CSS secrets
Based on two popular talks from author Lea Verou - including CSS3 Secrets: 10 things you may not know about CSS - this practical guide provides more than 50 undocumented techniques and tips for using CSS3 to create better websites. The talks that spawned this book have been top-rated by W3Conf and.net magazine. Get information you won't find in any other book Learn through small, easily digestible chapters Helps you understand CSS more deeply so you can improve your own solutions Apply Lea's techniques to problems other than those she discusses Gain tips from a rockstar author who works for W3C - the organization responsible for CSS.
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- I'm surprised no one mentioned Lea Verou's "CSS Secrets" [0]. Most books I've read will give some depth at how aspects of CSS work, or recommend a best practice, but Verou's work is the only one I've seen that sees using CSS as an engineering solution. The book is a collection of problems, e.g. "how to add multiple borders?", And the shows different ways to solve the problem given the available CSS. Each solution discussed trade-offs, constraints, etc.
It will go the farthest in teaching you how to think about CSS
[0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/css-secrets/97814493727...
- CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems (written by Lea Verou) covers a variety of interesting techniques along these lines.
- I found these two ones quite good.
https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/professional-css3
https://www.amazon.com/CSS-Secrets-Solutions-Everyday-Proble...
- http://www.htmlandcssbook.com/ taught me the groundwork despite its age. Lea Verou's CSS Secrets is a great book to pair it with - will show you lots of avenues of CSS and layout ideas that you'd never have found on your own. You probably also need some reference on Flexbox & Grid but depends how far you want to go!
- CSS Secrets is wonderful but I wouldn't consider recommending it for learning CSS as it assumes at least a solid base. What I do believe someone new to CSS or currently learning would find useful is the overall approach. Until reading it, I did not really take any interest in being DRY with my CSS.
- Read lea verou book 'css secrets' it's an awesome book for every web developer. http://lea.verou.me/writing/
