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Title: Html Style Sheets Quick Reference (Ques Quick Reference Series) by Rob Falla, Que Corporation ISBN: 0789710358 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2

Rating: 1
Summary: Useless as a brick
Comment: 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.

Rating: 3
Summary: Not a great reference, but the most complete one out there.
Comment: 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...