code is an odd thing, any book really works as long as it has a good index of what things do.

and code is alot like working on a car, somtimes you just gotta rip something apart to figure out how it works. just open up the source to this site and you can start to see how style sheets and the like work

for advanced websites i suggest PHP coding because there is a huge online catalog of every peice of code with examples online at php.net

but for html books look into html for dummies, it's conscise and gives you what you need to know.