HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition View Larger Image | Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
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"...lucid, in-depth descriptions of the behavior of every HTML tag on every
major browser and platform, plus enough dry humor to make the book a pleasure
to read."
--Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine
"When they say 'definitive' they're not kidding."
--Linda Roeder, About.com
Put everthing you need to know about HTML & XHTML at your fingertips. For
nearly a decade, hundreds of thousands of web developers have turned to HTML
& XHTML: The Definitive Guide to master standards-based web development.
Truly a definitive guide, the book combines a unique balance of tutorial material
with a comprehensive reference that even the most experienced web professionals
keep close at hand. From basic syntax and semantics to guidelines aimed at helping
you develop your own distinctive style, this classic is all you need to become
fluent in the language of web design.
The new sixth edition guides you through every element of HTML and XHTML in
detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements.
You'll also find detailed discussions of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which
is intricately related to web page development. The most all-inclusive, up-to-date
book on these languages available, this edition covers HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0,
and CSS2, with a preview of the upcoming XHTML2 and CSS3. Other topics include
the newer initiatives in XHTML (XForms, XFrames, and modularization) and the
essentials of XML for advanced readers. You'll learn how to:
- Use style sheets to control your document's appearance
- Work with programmatically generated HTML
- Create tables, both simple and complex
- Use frames to coordinate sets of documents
- Design and build interactive forms and dynamic documents
- Insert images, sound files, video, Java applets, and JavaScript programs
- Create documents that look good on a variety of browsers
The authors apply a natural learning approach that uses straightforward language
and plenty of examples. Throughout the book, they offer suggestions for style
and composition to help you decide how to best use HTML and XHTML to accomplish
a variety of tasks. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, and what makes
sense to those who view your web pages and what might be confusing. Written
for anyone who wants to learn the language of the Web--from casual users to
the full-time design professionals--this is the single most important book on
HTML and XHTML you can own.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. HTML, XHTML, and the World Wide Web
1.1 The Internet
1.2 Talking the Internet Talk
1.3 HTML and XHTML: What They Are
1.4 HTML and XHTML: What They Aren't
1.5 Standards and Extensions
1.6 Tools for the Web Designer
2. Quick Start
2.1 Writing Tools
2.2 A First HTML Document
2.3 Embedded Tags
2.4 HTML Skeleton
2.5 The Flesh on an HTML or XHTML Document
2.6 Text
2.7 Hyperlinks
2.8 Images Are Special
2.9 Lists, Searchable Documents, and Forms
2.10 Tables
2.11 Frames
2.12 Stylesheets and JavaScript
2.13 Forging Ahead
3. Anatomy of an HTML Document
3.1 Appearances Can Deceive
3.2 Structure of an HTML Document
3.3 Tags and Attributes
3.4 Well-Formed Documents and XHTML
3.5 Document Content
3.6 HTML/XHTML Document Elements
3.7 The Document Header
3.8 The Document Body
3.9 Editorial Markup
3.10 The <bdo> Tag
4. Text Basics
4.1 Divisions and Paragraphs
4.2 Headings
4.3 Changing Text Appearance and Meaning
4.4 Content-Based Style Tags
4.5 Physical Style Tags
4.6 Precise Spacing and Layout
4.7 Block Quotes
4.8 Addresses
4.9 Special Character Encoding
4.10 HTML's Obsolete Expanded Font Handling
5. Rules, Images, and Multimedia
5.1 Horizontal Rules
5.2 Inserting Images in Your Documents
5.3 Document Colors and Background Images
5.4 Background Audio
5.5 Animated Text
5.6 Other Multimedia Content
6. Links and Webs
6.1 Hypertext Basics
6.2 Referencing Documents: The URL
6.3 Creating Hyperlinks
6.4 Creating Effective Links
6.5 Mouse-Sensitive Images
6.6 Creating Searchable Documents
6.7 Relationships
6.8 Supporting Document Automation
7. Formatted Lists
7.1 Unordered Lists
7.2 Ordered Lists
7.3 The <li> Tag
7.4 Nesting Lists
7.5 Definition Lists
7.6 Appropriate List Usage
7.7 Directory Lists
7.8 Menu Lists
8. Cascading Style Sheets
8.1 The Elements of Styles
8.2 Style Syntax
8.3 Style Classes
8.4 Style Properties
8.5 Tagless Styles: The <span> Tag
8.6 Applying Styles to Documents
9. Forms
9.1 Form Fundamentals
9.2 The <form> Tag
9.3 A Simple Form Example
9.4 Using Email to Collect Form Data
9.5 The <input> Tag
9.6 The <button> Tag
9.7 Multiline Text Areas
9.8 Multiple-Choice Elements
9.9 General Form-Control Attributes
9.10 Labeling and Grouping Form Elements
9.11 Creating Effective Forms
9.12 Forms Programming
10. Tables
10.1 The Standard Table Model
10.2 Basic Table Tags
10.3 Advanced Table Tags
10.4 Beyond Ordinary Tables
11. Frames
11.1 An Overview of Frames
11.2 Frame Tags
11.3 Frame Layout
11.4 Frame Contents
11.5 The <noframes> Tag
11.6 Inline Frames
11.7 Named Frame or Window Targets
11.8 XFrames
12. Executable Content
12.1 Applets and Objects
12.2 Embedded Content
12.3 JavaScript
12.4 JavaScript Stylesheets (Antiquated)
13. Dynamic Documents
13.1 An Overview of Dynamic Documents
13.2 Client-Pull Documents
13.3 Server-Push Documents
14. Mobile Devices
14.1 The Mobile Web
14.2 Device Considerations
14.3 XHTML Basic
14.4 Effective Mobile Web Design
15. XML
15.1 Languages and Metalanguages
15.2 Documents and DTDs
15.3 Understanding XML DTDs
15.4 Element Grammar
15.5 Element Attributes
15.6 Conditional Sections
15.7 Building an XML DTD
15.8 Using XML
16. XHTML
16.1 Why XHTML?
16.2 Creating XHTML Documents
16.3 HTML Versus XHTML
16.4 XHTML 1.1
16.5 Should You Use XHTML?
17. Tips, Tricks, and Hacks
17.1 Top of the Tips
17.2 Cleaning Up After Your HTML Editor
17.3 Tricks with Tables
17.4 Tricks with Windows and Frames
A. HTML Grammar
B. HTML/XHTML Tag Quick Reference
C. Cascading Style Sheet Properties Quick Reference
D. The HTML 4.01 DTD
E. The XHTML 1.0 DTD
F. Character Entities
G. Color Names and Values
H. Netscape Layout Extensions
Index
About the Authors
Bill Kennedy is chief technical officer of MobileRobots, Inc. When
not hacking new HTML pages or writing about them, "Dr. Bill" (Ph.D. in biophysics
from Loyola University of Chicago) is out promoting the company's line of mobile,
autonomous robots that can be used for artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic
research, and education.
Chuck Musciano began his career as a compiler writer and crafter of
tools at Harris Corporations' Advanced Technology Group and is now a manager
of Unix Systems in Harris' Corporate Data Center.
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