Ask HN: Are there books on HTML5/CSS3 for people new to HTML/CSS in general?

Head First HTML with CSS : http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/

Once you are comfortable with HTML and CSS, you can learn new techniques / tricks introduced in HTML5 & CSS3 easily ( from any other source, say a tutorial ).

This one is great: http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/

Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3531160

You can also check out: http://diveintohtml5.info/

The original author took a break from the web but it's now being maintained by a couple a loyal fans

Right click > Inspect Element.

This is the greatest teacher/tutorial.

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