Eric's Writing
The articles listed below are archived on this site, and will in some cases be not quite the same as the originally published article. This may be due to editorial changes by the publisher which I have "undone" here, or perhaps due to corrections made by me after the original publication of the article.
Any boldfaced links indicate those which point to an external site; in other words, the resource in question doesn't reside on meyerweb.
Books
- CSS: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition (O'Reilly & Associates, November 2006; first edition, 2000)
- Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, March 2001)
- CSS Pocket Reference (O'Reilly & Associates, May 2001)
- Eric Meyer On CSS (New Riders, June 2002)
- More Eric Meyer on CSS (New Riders, April 2004)
- CSS Web Site Design (Peachpit, November 2006)
- Smashing CSS (Wiley, November 2009)
Commentary Articles
- Surviving the Tall Grass (Web Review, February 1998)
- Why Browsers Aren't Standardized (Webmonkey, September 1998)
Professional Articles
O'Reilly Network
- The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook (July 2000)
- Using CSS as a Diagnostic Tool (July 2000)
- What Makes CSS So Great? (July 2000)
- Use the Right Doctype (April 2000)
- IE5 Is Quantum Leap for Mac Browsers (April 2000)
Web Review
- A Pseudo Makeover (February 2001)
- Attribute Selectors, Part 3 (August 2000)
- Attribute Selectors, Part II (August 2000)
- Attribute Selectors (August 2000)
- New Pseudo-Classes (July 2000)
- The Adjacent-Sibling Selector (July 2000)
- The Child Selector (June 2000)
- Universal Selector (June 2000)
- Print Different (January 2000)
- Absolute Font Sizes: A Clarification (December 1999)
- Font Sizing (December 1999)
- More Fun With Font Sizes (October 1999)
- You CAN Use CSS Today!!! (August 1999)
- Font Size Does Matter (August 1999)
- CSS: If Not Now, When? (June 1999)
- Styles and Tables (May 1999)
- Help! My CSS Isn't Working! (April 1999)
- Inheritance: Friend and Foe (March 1999)
- Creating Buttons With CSS (February 1999)
- Styling Included Content (January 1999)
- Navigational Styles (November 1998)
- Review: Style Master 1.0 (November 1998)
- Common Myths of CSS (September 1998)
- Coloring By Numbers (July 1998)
- Text Decoration With CSS (June 1998)
- Creating a Global Style Sheet (May 1998)
- Externalizing Your Style Sheets (March 1998)
- Playing For Position (February 1998)
- A Quick Tour of CSS2 (February 1998)
- Styling Inside the Box (January 1998)
- The Pitfalls of Style (December 1997)
- All In the Font Family (November 1997)
- Creating Your First Style Sheet (October 1997)
Technical Tutorials
Okay, so I really only have three, and they're all about the same subject. They've still collected a decent number of awards, been named as some of the best sites on the Web, and been visited by well over one million readers. (These tutorials are no longer hosted by my former employer, CWRU. If I ever get the source files cleaned up and republished here, I will reactivate the links.)
- Introduction to HTML (July 1995)
- HTML 2.0: Forms and Obscurities (April 1996)
- HTML 3.2: Here's Wilbur! (August 1997)
Humor
A selection of things which I have written just for fun, and have made available here mostly because Kat persuaded me to do so.
- Warding Off the Grue (October 1999)
- It's Nothing Personal, But... (October 1999)
