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Selectutorial

New from Russ Weakley: Selectutorial, which taks his widely acclaimed step by step CSS tutorial style and applies it to CSS selectors. Having a full understanding of selectors is critical if you’re going to take full advantage of CSS, so if you don’t get them yet you should really check this out.

Posted 2nd December 2003 at 2:37 am

This is Selectutorial by Simon Willison, posted on 2nd December 2003.

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Russ has a gift for clear and comprehensive explanation. Another great tutorial, in my opinion.

The only thing I would mention is that, like last time, he sometimes chooses to use presentational class names like "big" and "indent", in a tutorial whose intended audience would be better off developing the habit of using semantically meaningful class names.

Again, beautiful tutorial, especially love the diagrams and clean layout.

Micah - 2nd December 2003 03:54 - #
All his tutorials start out the same way. You think to yourself, "Oh, this stuff is so basic, it's just for newbies, why waste my time".. 10 minutes later you can't stop reading and you end up learning 10 times more than you thought you were going to. They are the the best place to get back to your roots. Good stuff.
CIAwallst - 3rd December 2003 08:33 - #
One (small) thing I noticed: Russ does his "footer" as an unordered list.

Well, I hadn't thought of that. I guess I still must have an unconscious tendency to put whatever displays inline in p tags.

But a footer generally is not a paragraph - i.e., a distinct passage of text - but a set of (fairly unrelated) items. So I guess there is something to be said for what Russ does, although it does mean slightly more HTML and a fair bit more CSS on top.

Michael - 3rd December 2003 19:53 - #

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