I’ve been using Cascading Style Sheets for ages, but generally for 2 reasons: firstly to save code space (multiple <FONT> tags, etc.) and secondly to achieve certain things which couldn’t be done in pure HTML (such as styling table elements).
I’ve never really done much “advanced”* stuff – things like true multi column layouts, and really complicated child-grandchild relationships – I guess I’ve never had the need to. It’s high time I really sat down and learned about it really, as it’d not that complicated. In fact, I remember borrowing O’Reilly’s “Cascading Style Sheets – The Definitive Guide” from my University Library, and realising that most of it wasn’t that difficult, really. It just boils down to time!
What reminded me about this was a post on Alex King’s blog linking to this rather useful set of examples. I’d best start practising sometime soon then…
*When I say advanced, that is a relative term!
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I’d recommend a book called CSS Mastery by Andy Budd (Friends of Ed) it really avoids the beginners stuff and concentrates on a more technical and ‘big picture’ view.
If you come and stay I’ll maybe let you borrow it. :p