Today I was very excit­ed to open a pack­age and find fresh-off-the-press­es copies of The Book of CSS3, Sec­ond Edi­tion. Which inevitably leads me onto this: I’m very pleased to announce the release of The Book of CSS3, Sec­ond Edi­tion. Ful­ly revised and updat­ed from the first edi­tion, with two new chap­ters, many more com­plete­ly rewrit­ten, new illus­tra­tions through­out, and every chap­ter edit­ed to include the most up to date infor­ma­tion on brows­er sup­port and changes to the spec. It took me as long to write the sec­ond edi­tion as it did the first!

The book cov­ers: media queries; selec­tors; fonts, text and typog­ra­phy; back­grounds and bor­ders; col­or, opac­i­ty and gra­di­ents; trans­for­ma­tions; tran­si­tions and ani­ma­tions; mul­ti­ple columns; flexbox; grid lay­out; and new chap­ters on val­ues and siz­ing, and blend­ing, fil­ters, mask­ing and clipping.

When I start­ed work on The Book of CSS3 some four and a half years ago(!), sup­port for the var­i­ous CSS3 prop­er­ties across browsers was spot­ty and incon­sis­tent. This meant that it was nec­es­sary for the book to detail the many imple­men­ta­tion dif­fer­ences and quirks, which had the unfor­tu­nate knock-on effect of mak­ing the book date faster than it might have oth­er­wise. In the years since, how­ev­er, sup­port has become much more stan­dard­ised and con­sis­tent, so I could con­cen­trate on mak­ing the sec­ond edi­tion much more sta­ble and future-proofed.

You can buy The Book of CSS3, Sec­ond Edi­tion direct from No Starch Press — every print copy comes with free eBook. Alter­na­tive­ly, you can buy the print copy from Ama­zon (US or UK), or the print or eBook from O’Reilly.

Update: This week­end (from 7th Novem­ber) get a 30% dis­count when you buy direct from No Starch. The eBook and paper­back bun­dle for under $25! Use the code STYLIN at checkout.