[kls]

I bought that book on a recommendation to use as a teaching aid. It was the single worst book I have ever seen, entire sections of the book where missing. I had to scrap it as a teaching aid all together and purchase yet another book. After that purchase I have never looked at another Head First book. I don't know if it has been corrected in later version but the omissions where so obvious that it gave the impression of just wanting to shovel crap on the market to grab a buck.

[brudgers]

In an classroom setting, I wouldn't recommend it...or any of the Head First series for that matter. They are all essentially hands on self-paced tutorials, not text books or references.

The big advantage is that they model improvement in their exercises by using sample code that is half-right (and half-wrong) and then showing how to improve it.

All that to say that they aren't for everyone, and certainly are not targeted at people who prefer reference manuals. On the other hand, the exercises in Head First HTML really demonstrate how CSS formatting works (and doesn't work) better than other beginner level books.