Customer Rating: 
Summary: LOVE IT!!!
Comment: Recommended by a friend who is a web coding GOD. This book is fantastico.
Simply put... BUY IT.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Invaluable
Comment: This book is a must have for anyone using CSS whether a beginner or otherwise.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ULTIMATE CSS Reference
Comment: This book is certainly the most complete CSS reference I have ever encountered. For that I give it five stars. It is not a textbook, but contains almost everything you would want in a CSS quick reference. If you are new to CSS, I would highly recommend getting this book along with a good introductory CSS book, such as: The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design (Essential Guide) (Paperback) by Craig Grannel. The reference is a valuable tool for someone who is already very familiar with CSS.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An excellent reference
Comment: I have found more answers to subtle, complex and tricky layout problems in the few days since getting this book than over the last 12 months of googling and hunting through tutorials, guides and cookbooks.
I was surprised at how concise it is. There is not a lot of waffle, and the authors jump straight to the most important facts/features/oddities for every single aspect of the full CSS spec.
A very good buy!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great for the most part
Comment: Overall I give this book four stars. This is a REFERENCE book; not really intended for beginners. However, I read about some properties I did not know existed previously, so I learned a lot in addition to having one place to look up everything. I do like that it's hardcover--though I wish one of these days Sitepoint could make books that are able to lay flat!
I also like the fact that after every property, there is a little box that explains which browsers are compatible with it. The book even explains if the property is buggy (looking at you, IE), and then delves into why and if there is a fix. Unfortunately, this list will soon need additions to them, with the coming of IE8, Chrome, etc, etc. Still, very useful.
It doesn't receive a perfect five because I wish more example pictures could be displayed. I don't mean for the very basic things (like the height property). In some of the explanations, I was only 80 to 90% sure of what the paragraph was talking about, and with web I am very visual. I know this would have taken up more space, but I felt it was needed (but only for certain sections). I also didn't like how the "index" is set up. I think there should have been another index (keywords) in addition to the current, property-only one. For instance, div isn't even mentioned there. I know that's an HTML tag but it would have been nice to see all the keywords throughout the book regarding it, considering its interaction with CSS. I guess I'm not used to that sort of index, which is basically the Table of Contents but at the end of the book.
So yes, I would say if you want one book to look up all the different properties of CSS, this is it. Again, this is a reference, not a book with tutorials and explanations on how to create something specific (recommend the anthology book for that).
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