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Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!
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Expert Reviews
Making me think differently about CSS tables is Rachel's aim in Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! As we'll see, she does a damn fine job.
Andy Clarke
forabeautifulweb.com
The sooner that IE8 can be adopted, the better, and these techniques can start to get a proper working out. Who knows, there may be a whole new raft of tricks that will arise as a result of these CSS table layout properties...
Ian Lloyd 
accessify.com
Customer Reviews
Live, unmoderated reviews from our customers, typos and all.
Great book with lots of ideas and hints to get web pages working and looking good.
Richard Hanna, USA 
24 Jan 2012
This books gave me a better insight on how to use CSS as a development tool instead of hacking styles like I usually do.
Curtis C James, USA
24 Jan 2012
I struggled with CSS in my college courses and this book has shown me just why! Easy to follow instruction. Great book!
Ann Magee, USA 
20 Jan 2012
Enjoying it, thanks! Very clear and well laid out and at the level I need.
Razeen Davids, USA
19 Jan 2012
Great work on all the ebooks I bought with Sitepoint. Totally awesome, simplified, upto the point content.
Shravan Vaddiraj, USA
16 Jan 2012
Very encouraging and straightforward read, honestly stating flaws as well as benefits. But is the technique not a bit outdated by now or is it still well in use? Sorry for asking, I have not a lot of experience here.
Olaf Mueller, USA
22 Jan 2012
Interesting enough, but there is not enough material to be sold as a book. It could have been covered as an 'article' or more, related, content could have been added to the book.
The code samples are confusing as well. It should be made clear what code has been added to, or modified from, the previous code. Some code is made bold, but this doesn't include all the additional code that has been added.
Andrew Gibson, USA 
20 Jan 2012
Site point books are usually very good. In this case there is definitely not enough space allocated to CSS Table Solutions. Only 25 pages are directly tied to creating layout solutions and much of that digresses into things such as nested tables without dealing with basic layout issues. Maybe some user testing would illuminate the problems that might be encountered by beginners wanting to learn to build sites using table-display properties of css? I would wait for an expanded book on this subject.
Rick Ranum, USA 
This book would be awesome if Microsoft would disappear altogether with all their previous version of IE when they release a new one... But what good does it make having a cutting edge browser that allows anything if you still have to worry about IE6 and 7? If they were talking about Firefox that actually updates their products without leaving the user with old stuff sitting in their machines I would think their book is fantastic. But since I live in the real world, I still find myself coding css for IE6 and IE7 and now I will have another annoying IE release to worry about...
So I don't think this book is ahead of its time, I think this book is utterly utopian and unrealistic. Unless, of course, Microsoft decides to change the way they work, which would be awesome....
MontyCora, Brazil 
"Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong" is a very misleading title. The main content of the book deals with CSS-based tables, which is not fully implemented except in a few modern browsers (and will only work under certain conditions). We have to deal with older browsers (like IE6) for a while longer, so there is no need to even try to implement CSS-based tables (professionally) at this point.
Had the title been something like "Use CSS-based Tables in Your Design" I would have bought the book for research and knowledge. I know a lot about CSS and nothing changed by reading this book. My problem is not with the authors; I have great respect for both Rachel and Kevin, but this one is a bit under par.
Over the years I have bought a lot of books from Sitepoint; this one is the first book I regret buying.
Kim Vigsbo, USA 
Product Details
| Edition: | 1st |
| Price: | $29.95 |
| Pages: | 130 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9804552-2-9 |
| Published: | October 2008 |
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