Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (3rd Edition) cover

Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (3rd Edition)

Rating 4.4
Word count
440K words
Chapters
10
Series
Turing Programming Series
ISBN
9787115313645

Tags

Summary

This is the Chinese translation of the third edition of Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide, a CSS design guide written for beginner-to-intermediate readers, comprising 8 chapters plus an appendix and index. The first four chapters start from foundational knowledge: first HTML markup and document structure, explaining that using tags to give content semantics is the basis for adding styles; then how CSS works, including core mechanisms such as rules and declarations, the cascade and specificity, various selectors, and inheritance; then a systematic explanation of positioning elements, covering the box model, floats, clearing, positioning methods, and stacking order; and finally fonts and text, including font families, font size, line height, color, and text layout. The last four chapters turn to practice: the page layout chapter discusses various classic layout schemes and grid ideas; the interface components chapter explains how to build common modules such as navigation, forms, lists, rounded corners, and shadows; the CSS3 in practice chapter builds a complete page using features such as rounded corners, shadows, gradients, and multiple backgrounds; and the final chapter introduces responsive design, explaining media queries, breakpoint settings, and the viewport tag, and demonstrating how to optimize layouts for tablets and phones. Organized by technical topic and advancing through runnable examples, the book emphasizes writing "smart" CSS and helps readers move from knowing how to write styles to understanding them.

Editor's review

市面上的 CSS 书要么是庞大的字典式手册,要么是只讲某个炫技案例的教程,而这本书走的是第三条路:用不到 300 页的篇幅,把 CSS 的“为什么”讲清楚。作者 Charles Wyke-Smith 是设计师出身、做过用户体验总监,因此书中讲的不是语法清单,而是“设计师在调版面时会遇到什么”。书名中的“设计指南”四个字名副其实——层叠、特指度、盒模型、浮动与清除、定位与堆叠上下文这些最容易让人卡壳的地方,都被拆成可复现的小例子一步步讲透。第 7 章用一个完整页面把 CSS3 的圆角、阴影、渐变、多背景串起来,第 8 章顺势进入媒体查询与响应式布局,恰好在读者刚有手感时推向下一个台阶。译者李松峰长期从事技术图书翻译,术语准确、行文顺畅,不少读者反馈“三天读完一遍不费劲”。需要提醒的是,本书英文原版成书于 2012 年,Flexbox 与 Grid 等现代布局方案并未覆盖,它更像一块扎实的地基而不是速查手册;把它当作理解 CSS 运行逻辑的第一本书,再配合最新的 MDN 文档练习,收益最大。

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • 有 HTML 基础、想系统理解 CSS 运行机制的初中级前端学习者
  • 从视觉设计或 UI 转做前端,需要把版面直觉转化为代码能力的设计师
  • 工作中一直在用 CSS、但层叠与定位始终没搞明白的开发者的补课读物
  • 计算机相关专业学生,或想以此为教材的网页设计课程教师

Not a good fit for

  • 已熟练使用 Flexbox、Grid 与现代 CSS 方案,想直接查新特性的资深开发者
  • 希望找一本覆盖 CSS 全部属性、可随手速查的工具书式读者的读者
  • 完全没有接触过 HTML、只想做无代码建站的人

Reading tips

  1. 按章节顺序读,每章的例子务必亲手敲一遍,CSS 的坑几乎都藏在细节里
  2. 读第 2、3 章时配合浏览器开发者工具实时查看层叠与盒模型,理解会快很多
  3. 第 5 至 8 章可边读边改造自己熟悉的一个页面,把书中的布局方案迁移过去
  4. 读完后补学 Flexbox 与 Grid,并对照 MDN 文档更新书中已过时的写法

About the publisher

Posts & Telecom Press China · Founded in 1953

Posts & Telecom Press is known for its strengths in science and technology, computing, and information and communications titles, and has extended its publishing into photography, art, software learning, and inspirational growth, giving it a fairly diverse range. Its catalog includes computing and communications works such as Refactoring and Patterns (Revised Edition) and Huawei Switch Learning Guide (Second Edition), alongside bilingual collector's editions such as The Little Prince (Chinese-English-French illustrated collector's edition), The Great Gatsby, and Three Days to See. Beijing Ten Years: 1980-1990 and Ghost Blade: WLOP Personal Illustration Collection reflect its presence in photography and art. Its authors include Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Helen Keller, Joshua Kerievsky, Wang Da, Zhang Zhaozeng, and WLOP.

Contents

  1. Chapter 1: HTML Markup and Document Structure
  2. Chapter 2: How CSS Works
  3. Chapter 3: Positioning Elements
  4. Chapter 4: Fonts and Text
  5. Chapter 5: Page Layout
  6. Chapter 6: Interface Components
  7. Chapter 7: CSS3 in Practice
  8. Chapter 8: Responsive Design
  9. Appendix: Technical Tips
  10. Index

FAQ

这本书适合零基础的人看吗?
需要一点 HTML 基础。第 1 章虽然从 HTML 标记讲起,但只是为讲 CSS 做铺垫,并没有系统教 HTML;完全没写过网页的人建议先补一段 HTML 入门,再回来读会顺畅很多。
书里的内容会不会太旧了?
中文版依据 2012 年的英文第 3 版译出,讲的是 CSS2.1 与早期 CSS3 的写法,未涉及 Flexbox、Grid、容器查询等现代特性。但层叠、特指度、盒模型、定位这些核心机制并未改变,作为打基础的读物依然靠谱,新特性另找资料补即可。
中文版和英文原版是同一本吗?
是。中文版对应《Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide》第 3 版,由李松峰翻译,人民邮电出版社 2013 年出版,ISBN 为 9787115313645,全书 8 章,约 288 页。
读完后能达到什么水平?
能独立完成静态页面的版式与组件样式,理解样式冲突为何发生、如何用更简洁的选择器解决,并能用媒体查询做出基础响应式布局;但要达到工程化水平,还需补充现代布局方案与项目实践。

Comments

Find this book

This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.

More by the same author

Top rated in the same category