Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference

David Schultz, Craig Cook9781590597477, 1590597478

If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML-the language that the majority of web site content is written in.Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference incorporates practical examples that will show you how to structure your data correctly using (X)HTML, along with styling and layout basics using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You’ll also learn how to add dynamic behavior to your data using the JavaScriptT language.This book is forward-thinking because all the featured code and techniques are standards compliant and demonstrate best practices-so you won’t waste time on outdated, bad techniques. Your web pages will work properly in most web browsers and be accessible to web users with disabilities, easily locatable with popular search engines, and compact in file size.Even if you already know HTML and CSS basics, this book will still be useful to you. It features comprehensive reference tables at the back, so you can look up all of the troublesome attributes, codes, and properties quickly and easily.Pick up a copy of this book because it: * Teaches standards-compliant HTML – not outdated techniques * Includes reference sections for you to easily look up syntax * Doesn’t require previous programming experience for comprehensionBruce Lawson and Gez Lemon acted as technical reviewers of Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML. Bruce and Gez are active members of the Web Standards Project’s Accessibility Task Force, and have helped ensure that the book follows currentguidelines and best practice.

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Table of contents :
Cover Page……Page 1
Title Page……Page 2
ISBN 1590597478……Page 3
Contents at a Glance……Page 4
Contents……Page 5
Foreword……Page 12
About the Authors……Page 13
About the Technical Reviewer……Page 14
Acknowledgments……Page 15
Who This Book Is For……Page 17
How This Book Is Structured……Page 18
Conventions Used in This Book……Page 19
Contacting the Authors……Page 20
Introducing the Internet and the World Wide Web……Page 21
What Is HTML?……Page 22
Separating Content from Presentation……Page 26
Working with XHTML and CSS……Page 27
Introducing the URL……Page 29
Summary……Page 32
The Parts of Markup: Tags, Elements, and Attributes……Page 33
The XHTML Document……Page 39
CSS Fundamentals……Page 45
Summary……Page 58
The head Section……Page 61
The Supporting Elements……Page 62
Summary……Page 70
Content and Structure……Page 71
A beautiful ……Page 72
Meaningful Portions……Page 74
Lists……Page 82
Definition Lists……Page 87
Phrase Elements……Page 90
Multipurpose Elements……Page 105
Embedding External Content……Page 107
Presentational Elements……Page 110
Special Characters……Page 112
Styling Content with CSS……Page 114
Summary……Page 123
5 Using Images……Page 125
How Digital Images Work……Page 126
Including Images in Your Content……Page 131
Wrapping Text Around an Image……Page 140
Background Images……Page 142
Summary……Page 149
The Anchor Tag……Page 151
Using the Tag……Page 153
Using an Image As a Link……Page 159
Using IDs……Page 160
Adding CSS to the Anchor Tag……Page 161
Creating Image Maps……Page 166
Summary……Page 172
The Basics of Tables……Page 173
Coding a Basic Table……Page 179
Advanced Use of Tables……Page 186
Using CSS to Add Style to Your Tables……Page 198
Summary……Page 206
How Forms Work……Page 207
The Components of a Form……Page 208
Structuring Forms……Page 232
Styling Forms with CSS……Page 239
Summary……Page 245
Using External Style Sheets……Page 247
Units of Measure……Page 249
Layout……Page 250
Backgrounds……Page 265
Styling Text……Page 266
Media Types……Page 269
Summary……Page 270
What Is Scripting?……Page 271
Placement of JavaScript……Page 272
JavaScript, the Language……Page 273
Advanced Topics……Page 292
Summary……Page 299
Introducing Our Case Study: Spaghetti & Cruft……Page 301
The Design Process……Page 302
Building Spaghetti & Cruft……Page 308
Designing Spaghetti & Cruft with CSS……Page 315
Assembling the Pages……Page 332
Summary……Page 344
Internationalization Attributes……Page 347
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Appendix B Color Names and Values……Page 387
Colors Sorted by Name……Page 388
Colors Sorted by Group……Page 392
Colors Sorted by Depth……Page 396
Appendix C Special Characters……Page 401
T……Page 407
Border……Page 408
Dimension……Page 410
List……Page 411
Padding……Page 412
Positioning……Page 413
Pseudo Elements……Page 414
Text……Page 415
Index……Page 417