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I am a web developer. We are getting our design done by a designer in US. But finally I have to understand his code, or at least the basics. So, we fix issues resulting from his code.

Which is a is good CSS/HTML book for beginners?

UPDATE: Thanks guys. I just bought Eric Meyer's CSS definitive guide. So, accepting pdemarest's reply as my the answer.

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Beginning CSS Web Development By Simon Collison

Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours by Kynn Bartlett

CSS : The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

CSS for Web Designers Only by Donna L. Baker

joe
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  • HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS
  • Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML (if you can stand the tone)
jeroen
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pdemarest
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I have to second CSS, the Definitive Guide, as a reference, but starting out, try:

http://www.cssmastery.com/

Steve
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This one is pretty neat but may be more advanced than what you are looking for. Worth checking out anyway.

The Zen of CSS Design

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-CSS-Design-Visual-Enlightenment/dp/0321303474

cakeforcerberus
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You don't need to buy a book, there's plenty of free outstanding resources online. This site has a lot of tutorials on almost everything, plus they let you try doing the things at the end of the tutorial.

http://www.w3schools.com/

Tony C
Actually, I found it alot more interesting not reading from a book and just trying things on the fly, a la csszengarden.com. I think the fastest way to learn is just to start building something and reverse engineer the css of sites you like. It's all out there and free. In addition to w3c and the definitive guide, w3.org is a great reference.
Steve