The Zen of CSS Design

Seconded. Instead of the usual dry "Chapter n: Divs, Chapter n+1: Links" etc, Zen of CSS looks at a number of stunning designs in turn, explaining how each was achieved. Beautiful book.

Not a book, google. CSS is such an evolving art - browser inconsistencies and their related hacks are constantly changing, and best practises are continually being developed. It seems ironic to me that you would revert to using dead-tree media for instruction on how to style the cutting edge. If you simply need an introduction to css then w3schools can't be beat. Oh, and I also own zen of css design, which is pretty good if you must have a physical book.

The Zen of CSS Design for me. It takes submissions to the CSS Zen garden and uses them as examples of what techniques you can use for layout, typography, images, etc It suits my learning style of visual diagrams and reverse-engineering things to see how they work. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0321303474?ie=UTF8&ta... (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0321303474?ie=UTF8&tag=newcarto-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0321303474)