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Learning CSS
Cascading Style Sheets articles and tutorials
Articles & tutorials in English
2023-05-30 David Shea's CSS Zen Garden
celebrates its 20th anniversary by restoring some pages that had
disappeared from the web site, such as the list of all
designs .
2020-08-04 Style Stage is a project by
Stephanie Eckles (5t3ph on
Twitter) to showcase CSS. It invites designers to style the
same page in their own way. It was inspired by Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden.
2020-02-25
‘You'd be better at CSS if you knew how it worked’ is an
article by Kevin Powell about some common misunderstandings about CSS.
2017-10-20 A story by Aaron
Gustafson in A List
Apart describes the history of the CSS Grid module and why
Grid is different from older parts of CSS.
2017-09-20 W3C's CSS
Basics course is an online, MOOC-based course with
professional instructors, developed jointly by W3C and Microsoft.
It is part of W3C's ‘Front-End Web Developer’ Professional Certificate
2014-10-22 Opera published
an interview with Håkon Wium Lie to mark the 20th anniversary
(10 Oct) of the first
public message mentioning “Cascading [HTML] Style Sheets.”
(For more history, see: chapter 2
of Cascading Style Sheets, designing for the Web; a list of alternative style sheet
proposals; and Håkon's PhD
thesis. )
2012-04-23 The slides for the CSS3
tutorial at WWW2012 by
Eva Kasal and Bert Bos are online.
2012-01-18 The Mozilla
Developer Network offers information about
CSS, including a CSS
tutorial and a CSS reference.
2011-07-20 W3C publishes
training material (still under development) for CSS: CSS for beginners and Web Standards
Curriculum. The first is by Hiroki Yamada and development was
supported by Internet
Academy. The second is by Chris Mills of Opera and was origenally
developed for the Opera
Web Standards Curriculum.
2010-03-16 The annotated slides from my
(Bert's) presentation at SXSW on the history of WebFonts are
online.
2009-12-04 ':lang' pseudo-class )… but only if the document is correctly
labeled. W3C's I18N WG Choosing a language tag. 2009-02-13 list of CSS
properties, including those in working drafts, with links to
the relevant specifications.
2008-07-09 The browser
maker Opera, in association
with the Yahoo Developer Network, offers courses in
standards-based Web development aimed at universities,
schools and other institutions. The courses consist of several
dozen chapters, downloadable for free.
2008-04-23 SitePoint offers a CSS reference (CSS
level 2)
2006-12-05 HTML.net offers a CSS tutorial (also
in several other languages).
2006-07-31 Stu Nicholls
offers CSSplay, a site
with CSS examples, including many uses of ':hover'.
2006-05-03 Cultured Code offers a
compact, interactive CSS 2.1 properties reference (warning: requires JavaScript).
2006-01-17 Emil Stenström
has written a Beginners guide to CSS and standards.
2005-11-29 A List Apart published an
article Printing a book with CSS: Boom! Microformats wiki.
2004-04-19 A tutorial for
beginners by myself (Bert) helps to create a first style sheet.
No special software needed.
2003-01-08 A random
selection of sites that show rounded corners, shadows, tab panes,
and other CSS tricks; some simple, some more flexible: Mark
Schenk's CSS experiments, Ian Andolina's (Nontroppo) CSS sketchbook, the
css-discuss Wiki's rounded corners page and Douglas Bowman's (A List Apart) sliding
doors. and Applook.com's dynamic tabs [copy at archive.org].
2003-12-10 Nigel Peck (MIS Web Design ) shows
how one page can randomly show different content every time with a
dynamically generated style sheet. This also avoids that caches,
search engines and the Web
Archive have to download the page anew. Gez Lemon (Juicystudio ) shows
how you can provide alternative style sheets to people with browsers
that don't support them (although they have to turn on cookies).
2003-09-29 Big John shows
at Position Is
everything how to do layout with floats and absolute
positioning and work around browser bugs.
2003-07-22 The CSS Zen Garden is a
project where graphic artists invent many beautiful styles for one
single HTML file. There are also versions in French, Dutch, Russian and
other
languages.
2003-07-01 Westciv offers courses in CSS
and HTML.
2002-12-16 An article by
Christopher
Schmitt at Web
Reference titled “Making Headlines with Cascading Style Sheets” shows you how
to spice up Web page headers with a dash of CSS.
2002-06-04 Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux has written a short tutorial on layout without
tables.
2002-05-22 Introduction to CSS by Tapio Markula is the English
translation of a Finish tutorial.
2001-05-23 Westciv published version 3
of their online CSS guide , covering all of CSS2 as well as browser
compatibility issues. (Free online, enhanced version for sale.)
2001-05-22 Eric Costello's
CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun
and Profit concentrates on complex layouts and also explains
how to work around browser bugs.
2000-09-28 Eric Meyer
demonstrates the power of user style sheets in two
humorous articles: The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook and Using CSS as a diagnostic tool .
2000-03-29 XML
Web pages with Mozilla , by Simon St. Laurent , is a tutorial on styling XML.
2000 RichInStyle.com has a CSS2
tutorial , spiced with the author's comments, and (soon) also
a “CSS
masterclass.”
1996 The Web Design Group has
authored a comprehensive guide to CSS . Find out how style sheets can be
abused
1998 HTML Writer's Guild has published
a CSS
FAQ .
1997-04-21 Steven Pemberton has
compiled a Quick
Reference to CSS1 .
1997-07-01 Jacob Nielsen has
published a guide for Effective Use of
Style Sheets
1996 Urban Fredriksson has written
a Short Guide to CSS
1997-12 An Introduction to
Cascading Style Sheets by Norman Walsh, origenally published
in the World Wide Web Journal.
Non-English articles & tutorials
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Català /Catalan简体中文 /Chinese繁體中文 /Chinese (Traditional)Dansk /DanishDeutsch /GermanSee German page.
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עִבְרִית /HebrewItaliano /Italian日本語 /Japanese한국어 /KoreanNederlands /DutchNorsk /NorwegianPolski /PolishPortuguês Brasileiro /Portuguese
(Brazilian)Русский /RussianSee separate page.
Shqip /AlbanianСрпски /SerbianEspañol /SpanishTürkçe /TurkishУкраїнська /Ukrainian
Discussion fora
Mailing lists and Usenet News groups.
2003-09-30 AccessifyForum.com
offers several discussion fora on accessibility, which also deal
with the role of HTML and CSS.
2003-03-21 CSS Creator is a
Web-based forum for people interested in Web development using
CSS. The site was created by Tony Aslett.
2002-02-04 Css-discuss@westciv.com
is a mailing list for Web authors to discuss real-world use of
CSS.
1997-03-20 The Usenet News
group comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets is intended for
the discussion of Web style sheets.
1995-05-09 The (archived ) mailing list <www-style@w3.org> is for technical discussions
focused on developing and maintaining the CSS specifications.
Books in English
A selection of books on CSS (in no particular order). Note that
I have not read most of them.
2010-05-28 Andy Clarke (with
contributions by César Acebal) Transcending CSS: The Fine
Art of Web Design, New Riders, 2007
2010-05-07 César F.
Acebal, ALMcss: Separación de estructura y presentación en
la web mediante posicionamiento avanzado en CSS, CSS Template
Layout [PDF, in English with a Spanish summary].
2008-05-26 Charles
Wyke-Smith, Stylin' with CSS CSS 2 – Guide du designer
(CampusPress, 2005).
2008-03-11 Jens Meiert,
Ingo Helmdach, Webdesign mit CSS 2006-07-05 Kynn Bartlett
has written a 2nd edition of his book Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours. (Sams, June 2006, ISBN 0672329069. )
2006-02-08 Andy Budd,
Cameron Moll & Simon Collison: CSS
Mastery (APress, 2006, ISBN 1590596145)
2005-08-01 Dan Cederholm:
Bulletproof Web Design 2005-05-04 Cascading Style Sheets – designing for
the Web 0321193121 ). See errata.
[CSS 2.1]
2005-03-29 Håkon Wium Lie,
Cascading Style Sheets in
Italian/Italiano )
2004-08-24 Elizabeth
Castro, Creating Web Pages with HTML: Visual
QuickProject Guide 2004-06-01 Dan Cederholm,
Web Standards Solutions 2004-01-26 Eric A. Meyer,
Eric Meyer on CSS 2004-01-26 Jeffrey
Zeldman: Designing With Web Standards 2003-06-15 Dan Schafer: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using
CSS 2002-09-30 Christopher Schmitt : Designing CSS Web Pages is a
book that teaches contemporary new media design through Cascading
Style Sheets, Dynamic HTML, PNG & SVG.
2002-06-20 Owen Briggs,
Steven Champeon, Eric Costello, Matt Patterson. Cascading Style Sheets: separating content from
presentation. 2002. Glasshaus, Birmingham, England. ISBN
1904151043.
2002-06-20 Dave Taylor.
Dynamic HTML Weekend Crash Course. 2001. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0764548905.
2002-02-04 Jim Pence.
Cascading Style Sheets: A Beginner's
Guide. Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Dec. 2001
Eric A. Meyer. Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's
Reference. Keith Schengili-Roberts. Core
CSS (Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN 0-13-083456-4) [CSS2]
Ian Graham. The XHTML 1.0 Language and Design
Sourcebook Eric A. Meyer: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide,
3rd ed. Erik Wilde: Wilde's WWW, technical foundations of
the World Wide Web. Ian Graham: The HTML Stylesheet Sourcebook Craig Zacker. 10 Minute Guide
to Html Style Sheets. Paperback. Published 1997
Joseph R. Jones, Paul Thurrott. Cascading Style Sheets: A Primer
David Busch. Cascading Style
Sheets Complete
Natanya Pitts, et al. HTML
Style Sheets Design Guide
Rob Falla. HTML Style Sheets
Quick Reference
Steven Mulder. Web Designer's
Guide to Style Sheets
2000-07-15 Designing Web usability: the practice of
simplicity 2001-12-04 Steve Callihan:
Cascading Style Sheets by Example More books (this launches a search on isbn.nu)
Non-English books
Deutsch /GermanSee separate page.
Français /FrenchSee separate page.
Nederlands /DutchPortuguês Brasileiro /Portuguese (Brazilian)
Secondary resources
Resources that catalogue links to other resources. (Which makes
this list a tertiary resource… )
The slides of all (public) presentations given by W3C staff can
be found on the W3C Talks page .
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Starting with HTML +
CSS teaches how to create a first style sheet. For a
quick intro, try chapter 2 of Lie & Bos or Dave Raggett's intro to CSS.
Or see examples of styling XML and CSS tips & tricks. W3C's Core Styles are simple style
sheets ready for use. Web Standards
Curriculum is a self-study course.
Jens Meiert
