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CSS Master
CSS has grown from a language for formatting documents into a robust languagefor designing web applications. Its simplicity is deceptive, however. It belies the complexity of the box model, stacking contexts, specificity, and the cascade. CSS mastery lies in understanding these concepts and how to take advantage of them.
This book will show you how to write better, more efficient CSS, and to use the plethora of the new cutting-edge CSS features available to the front-end developer. You'll also learn to master tools that will improve your workflow.
Organize your CSS to create efficient, reusable, and maintainable code
Discover complex layout grid layouts, multi-column layouts, and more
Use advanced transitions, transforms, filter effect, and animations
Re-use and dynamically control CSS values with custom properties
Combine CSS and SVG to create seriously powerful graphics
This edition has been thoroughly updated to cover newer CSS features and techniques, including new chapters on visual effects and managing document scroll.
This book will show you how to write better, more efficient CSS, and to use the plethora of the new cutting-edge CSS features available to the front-end developer. You'll also learn to master tools that will improve your workflow.
Organize your CSS to create efficient, reusable, and maintainable code
Discover complex layout grid layouts, multi-column layouts, and more
Use advanced transitions, transforms, filter effect, and animations
Re-use and dynamically control CSS values with custom properties
Combine CSS and SVG to create seriously powerful graphics
This edition has been thoroughly updated to cover newer CSS features and techniques, including new chapters on visual effects and managing document scroll.
673 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 22, 2015
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June 13, 2017
"CSS Master" is a good light read book about CSS practices.
It starts off very off-putting, in my opinion. A book for CSS mastery starting with selectors without actually going into selectors performance optimization is a really weird concept to me.
Either way, after the first "Selectors" and second "CSS Architecture and Organization" chapters, the book starts to go into a more mastery-ish direction.
"Debugging and Optimization" starts like a kitchen sink and goes through too much stuff at once for the most part. But the biggest highlight in that chapter was that the importance of "Timeline" has been accented and briefly explained. If you wish you can start learning more on your own from any of the browser's docs.
Learning what repaint and reflow is, is very vital. The book does a good job at explaining the performance penalties with both.
"Complex Layouts" is also a good chapter. Flexbox is the highlight there. Definitely check it out. Perhaps skip directly to Flexbox.
"Transitions and Animations" is not as applicable as the others depending on the project and CSS you do in your own time, but it's a very good chapter nevertheless.
Other chapters weren't that important/useful to me. Especially not "Preprocessors".
Perhaps "Using CSS with SVG" is the best from the rest. Learning how to use both is a must if you want to do "performance-driven" DOM graphics.
Still a 3/5 for the book. It's imo misleading in meaning of mastery and has few chapters that can be expanded such as the "Debugging and Optimization" chapter instead of a "Selectors" chapters at all.
It starts off very off-putting, in my opinion. A book for CSS mastery starting with selectors without actually going into selectors performance optimization is a really weird concept to me.
Either way, after the first "Selectors" and second "CSS Architecture and Organization" chapters, the book starts to go into a more mastery-ish direction.
"Debugging and Optimization" starts like a kitchen sink and goes through too much stuff at once for the most part. But the biggest highlight in that chapter was that the importance of "Timeline" has been accented and briefly explained. If you wish you can start learning more on your own from any of the browser's docs.
Learning what repaint and reflow is, is very vital. The book does a good job at explaining the performance penalties with both.
"Complex Layouts" is also a good chapter. Flexbox is the highlight there. Definitely check it out. Perhaps skip directly to Flexbox.
"Transitions and Animations" is not as applicable as the others depending on the project and CSS you do in your own time, but it's a very good chapter nevertheless.
Other chapters weren't that important/useful to me. Especially not "Preprocessors".
Perhaps "Using CSS with SVG" is the best from the rest. Learning how to use both is a must if you want to do "performance-driven" DOM graphics.
Still a 3/5 for the book. It's imo misleading in meaning of mastery and has few chapters that can be expanded such as the "Debugging and Optimization" chapter instead of a "Selectors" chapters at all.
February 24, 2022
This was another outstanding programming book.
This might be the best CSS book I have read yet.
I would like to say that I am a CSS expert.
This book started at the advanced CSS level and worked towards CSS mastery.
I think it was excellent.
I am so thankful to have read a book that starts advanced. Instead, so many other books first start at "what is CSS" and only the last quarter is pertinent to me. This entire book was useful to me!
I highly recommend this book if you are a CSS expert or wish to master your CSS skills.
Do not pick up this book if you are a beginner to CSS!
I loved it.
4.9/5
This might be the best CSS book I have read yet.
I would like to say that I am a CSS expert.
This book started at the advanced CSS level and worked towards CSS mastery.
I think it was excellent.
I am so thankful to have read a book that starts advanced. Instead, so many other books first start at "what is CSS" and only the last quarter is pertinent to me. This entire book was useful to me!
I highly recommend this book if you are a CSS expert or wish to master your CSS skills.
Do not pick up this book if you are a beginner to CSS!
I loved it.
4.9/5
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