Useful Links related to CSS
P. Conrad, for CISC474, Spring 2006

CSS Tutorials

General Tutorials

• Friendly Bit's Beginners guide to CSS and standards
• w3schools.com's CSS Tutorial start page
• Sample chapter on CSS [PDF] from Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

Specific Topics

• Tutorial on floating images from css.maxdesign.com.au. They have several other nice CSS tutorials as well.

Debates over design

Should tables be used for layout, or not?

• Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques by Mark Newhouse. Frames the "Tables are dead... Long live tables" debate very nicely, and offers links to some practical tips. Also covers the "captions on images" problem.

Sample Code for Particular Layout Problems

• This browser test doubles as a crib sheet, with some nice examples of how to use CSS to acheive certain layout effects. In particular, it was the clearest example I found of how to put a colored box "flush right" on a page, and have it maintain its position as the page changed size.