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The 'K&R', 'Red Book', 'Camel' of JavaScript and CSS? When you see a site like www.cmegroup.com or www.gs.com, what reading material do the developers likely have on their shelves?

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Javascript: The Definitive Guide

SLaks
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For JavaScript it's probably JavaScript: The Good Parts and/or JavaScript: The Definitive Guide.

JavaScript vs. Just the good parts

I don't know if there's an equivalent book for CSS yet.

Bill the Lizard
O'reilly boy! ;)!
noinflection
@noinflection: My knee-jerk reaction was to deny it, but then I took a look around here and realized that I have an *awful* lot of books with animals on the covers. :)
Bill the Lizard
They are really good books!
noinflection
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To learn basic important things (which are not highlighted by every author) are taught by Mr. Crockford http://yuiblog.com/crockford/ in this video. and his website http://www.crockford.com/

Cool
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Thank you all for replying. All of these answers are very helpful.

outis
I give up. This site is too sociologically complicated; maybe it isn't for me. It's too bad, people were really helpful in answering my question.
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It may be a little dated at this point, but I learned the most from the Bullet proof CSS.

http://simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/

Thanks [have to infill chars for this to add].
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i like the good ol' for dummies series...

javascript for dummies