HTML&CSS Documentation & References

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Documentation and References for CSS

The W3C Specifications:
CSS 1:

• [CSS1] REC
• [CSS1 Errata]

CSS 2:

• [CSS2] REC
• [CSS2 Errata]
• [CSS2.1] CR

CSS 3:

• Introduction to CSS3 WD (Contains a table of CSS3 modules, albeit a bit outdated)
• CSS3 Color Module CR
• CSS3 Ruby Module CR
• CSS3 Text Module CR
• Selectors CR
• Media Queries CR
• CSS3 module: Basic User Interface CR
• Paged Media Properties for CSS3 CR
• CSS3 module: Backgrounds WD
• CSS3 module: Fonts WD
• CSS3 module: Web Fonts WD
  
• CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content Module WD
• CSS3 Speech Module WD
• CSS3 module: Border WD
• CSS3 module: Lists WD
• CSS3 module: The box model WD
• CSS3 module: line WD
• CSS3 module: Cascading and inheritance WD
• CSS3 module: Values and Units WD
• CSS3 module: Multi-column layout WD
• Behavioral Extensions to CSS WD
• CSS Namespace Enhancements (Proposal) WD (incorporated in Selectors)

Other CSS Specifications:

• Associating Style Sheets with XML documents
  Version 1.0 REC
• CSS Mobile Profile 1.0 CR
• CSS TV Profile 1.0 CR
• Syntax of CSS rules in HTML's "style" attribute WD

Other CSS related documents from W3C:

• XML Linking and Style NOTE
  
  
• Accessibility Features of CSS NOTE
• Using XSL and CSS together NOTE
• CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 NOTE
• Authoring Challenges for Device Independence WD

Various resources:

• Integrated Web Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management by Molly Holzschlag
• Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered by Bill Merikallio & Adam Pratt
• /CSS/ - A Guide for the unglued (Owen Briggs)
• NYPL Style Guide
• Brainjar: CSS Positioning (Mike Hall)
• Glish: CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit (Eric Costello)
• Bluerobot: The Layout Reservoir (Rob Chandanais)
• Box Lessons (Owen Briggs)
• Design Rant (Owen Briggs)
• CSS Layouts (Craig Saila)
• Apple Developer Connection: Internet Developer: Working with CSS
• CSS-Discuss Wiki (Companion to the CSS-D Mailing list)
• Real World Style (Mark Newhouse)
• WaSP CSS Resources
• W3C: Style Guide for online hypertext (Tim Berners-Lee)
• Web Development Pages (Ben Meadowcroft)
• Digital Web tutorial: Web Page Reconstruction with CSS (Christopher Schmitt)
• Digital Web tutorial: Miraz Jordan (Miraz Jordan)
• Digital Web tutorial: Converting a Page to CSS (J. David Eisenberg)
• WebsiteTips: CSS
• CSS Zen Garden (Organised by Dave Shea)
• W3C Style: Learning CSS
• CSS ain't Rocket Science (Simon Willison)
• No Margin for Error (Andy Budd of Blogography)
• HTML Utopia - Designing Without Tables Using CSS
• CSS Is Easy!
• Writing CSS1 style sheets - A short guide
• Guide to Cascading Style Sheets
• CSS Pointers
• So, You Want CSS Classes and IDs, Huh?
• HTMLite CSS Tutorial
• CSS Creator -> Page Layout (Douglas Livingstone)

Many Common CSS Hacks:
(from this thread by Skyzyx)

• Langridge Image Replacement Technique (LIR) by Stuart Langridge
• Pixy's Superfast No-Preloading Rollovers by Petr "Pixy" Stanicek
• Mini Tabs (Horizontal) by Dan Cederholm
• Tantek Box Model Hack & "Be Nice To Opera" Hack by Tantek Celik
• Alternate Box Model Hacks @ info.com.ph
• Owen Hack by John Albin Wilkins
• "Be Mean To Opera" Hack by John Albin Wilkins
• Netscape 4 Import Hack @ css-discuss.incutio.com
• Netscape 4 Ciao Hack @ css-discuss.incutio.com
• Import for IE5/Mac @ Premonition
• IE5/Mac Comment Hack by Sam Foster
• Alternate Stylesheet Hack by Liorean (Hey, that's me!)
• IE/Win Position:Fixed by Eric Bednarz
• Star-7 Hack (Uses non-validating code) by Mark Pilgrim (Old link dead, this one goes to dithered's CSS filters pages)
• Tantek Mid-Pass Filter by Tantek Celik
• Tantek High-Pass Filter by Tantek Celik
• Tantek Inline High-Pass Filter by Tantek Celik
• iCab 2.x Type Entity Hack @ css-discuss.incutio.com
• Star html bug by Edwardson Tan
• CSS Filters and Hacks @ dithered.com by Chris Nott

As with the JavaScript thread PM me suggested additions so the thread doesn't get bloated.


(Compatibility tables and the like coming up...)
[:edit:]Or at least, that was what I thought when I posted it, almost half a year ago...