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There are more and more places where you can learn about CSS available every day on the web. Here, we've gathered together some of the best of what we've seen, so if you don't find what you're looking for at the House of Style, we certainly hope you find it here.

We've gathered the links into a number of categories.

Comprehensive information

All these sites have a whole range of CSS resources: specifications and guides, tutorials, examples, browser support info and all manner of help.

The W3C

Cascading style sheets are an initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), so where else to learn more about style sheets? Here you'll find

Keep coming back to stay in touch with all the latest developments and new directions in CSS.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Amongst many many other things, Jeffrey Zeldman

Other high fives

If you're looking for links to standards based web development resources generally it's hard to go past Web Design References, and their collection of CSS links is comprehensive, well organised and up to date.

CSS-Help is a great guide to every aspect of the specification.

The CSS Pointers Group are just about the bees knees when it comes to resources, as well as links to other stuff online. If you haven't found what you're looking for here, get yourself over there now! Includes a listing of CSS FAQs

Index DOT Css is a great guide to all the CSS selectors, properties and other features.

Accessify.com is an excellent resource for up to date help for designing accessible websites generally, and the use of CSS specifically. The articles page is particularly useful.

Do take a look at The Fixor's CSS Style Sheet Resources as well - nicely organised into useful categories such as doctypes, printing, links, lists and so on.

Web-Building has another great listing of further CSS resources.

Tutorials and guides

Interesting articles

There are lots of articles about various aspects of CSS to be found at the places we link to above. We privilege these ones here because of their unique perspective, their incite, or just the fact that they're written by a friend of ours.

Browser support info

Our browser support tables are pretty good, but sometimes you're going to want to look at from someone else's point of view. Here are some of the finest.

Interesting CSS examples

Online tools

You can validate your CSS at any of the following

As well, the following can be helpful at various stages of the CSS design process.

Resources in languages other than English

Chinese

The WDG's CSS tutorial

Japanese

The WDG's CSS tutorial

Spanish

The WDG's CSS tutorial

Italian

Russian

Here is an extensive CSS tutorial in Russian