Ask HN: Can you recommend advanced books on CSS?

I think you're better off reading the box model spec.

Not a book necessarily but I really like this css reference:

http://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/

CSS is an art in a very literal sense. Once you know the basic technique a book won't help you as much as seeing examples in the wild and trying to reverse engineer them. To learn the nitty-gritty nuts and bolts of CSS, try reading the CSS-Tricks blog and digging into the documentation on MDN.

Finally, to truly master CSS, learn the art of brevity. Most stylesheets I see are terribly bloated and over specified. Always ask, "Can I do this in fewer declarations? Do I really need all of these constraints? Is there a single style that will work smoothly across all sizes without media queries?"

Learn that, and you won't need a book.

CSS Mastery is a good one - https://www.amazon.com/CSS-Mastery-Advanced-Standards-Soluti...

Check out smacss https://smacss.com

One of my favorite books is Lea Verou's CSS Secrets [0].

[0] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031123.do

Eric Meyer wrote CSS: The Definitive Guide. The current edition {4th} was released section by section. It can be found here:

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/52

You might try: https://abookapart.com/

I read their _Responsive Web Design_ title a while back and found it helpful and concise.

I see there's a CSS3 title written by the founder of Dribbble, for example, and updated in 2015.

This stuff changes so quickly, it may also be better to follow online, as others have suggested.