HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide

Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy9780596000264, 0-596-00026-X

This classic O’Reilly bestseller covers every element of HTML & XHTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. With hundreds of examples, this book shows readers how to create effective Web pages and how to master advanced features like Cascading Style Sheets.

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Table of contents :
Local Disk……Page 0
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition……Page 1
(HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 3
Preface (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 4
Text Conventions (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 6
Versions and Semantics (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 8
Is HTML Going Away? (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 9
We’d Like to Hear from You (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 12
Acknowledgments (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 14
HTML, XHTML, and the World Wide Web (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 15
Talking the Internet Talk (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 19
HTML: What It Is (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 23
XHTML: What It Is (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 24
HTML and XHTML: What They Aren’t (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 26
Nonstandard Extensions (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 28
Tools for the Web Designer (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 30
Quick Start (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 33
A First HTML Document (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 35
Embedded Tags (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 37
HTML Skeleton (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 39
The Flesh on an HTML or XHTML Document (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 40
Text (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 42
Hyperlinks (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 47
Images Are Special (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 51
Lists, Searchable Documents, and Forms (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 54
Tables (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 56
Frames (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 58
Style Sheets and JavaScript (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 60
Forging Ahead (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 62
Anatomy of an HTML Document (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 63
Structure of an HTML Document (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 65
Tags and Attributes (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 66
Well-Formed Documents and XHTML (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 70
Document Content (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 71
HTML Document Elements (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 74
The Document Header (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 78
The Document Body (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 83
Editorial Markup (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 86
The Tag (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 90
Text Basics (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 92
Headings (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 100
Changing Text Appearance (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 106
Content-Based Style Tags (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 108
Physical Style Tags (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 115
HTML’s Expanded Font Handling (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 121
Precise Spacing and Layout (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 128
Block Quotes (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 143
Addresses (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 148
Special Character Encoding (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 151
Rules, Images, and Multimedia (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 153
Inserting Images in Your Documents (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 162
Document Colors and Background Images (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 185
Background Audio (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 192
Animated Text (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 196
Other Multimedia Content (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 200
Links and Webs (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 202
Referencing Documents: The URL (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 204
Creating Hyperlinks (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 220
Creating Effective Links (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 230
Mouse-Sensitive Images (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 235
Creating Searchable Documents (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 246
Relationships (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 250
Supporting Document Automation (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 256
Formatted Lists (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 260
Ordered Lists (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 264
The Tag (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 268
Nesting Lists (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 272
Definition Lists (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 275
Appropriate List Usage (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 280
Directory Lists (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 282
Menu Lists (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 285
Cascading Style Sheets (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 287
Style Syntax (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 297
Style Classes (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 302
Style Properties (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 308
Tag-less Styles: The Tag (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 336
Applying Styles to Documents (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 338
Forms (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 341
The Tag (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 343
A Simple Form Example (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 351
Using Email to Collect Form Data (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 353
The Tag (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 356
The Tag (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 364
Multiline Text Areas (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 367
Multiple Choice Elements (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 370
General Form Control Attributes (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 376
Labeling and Grouping Form Elements (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 380
Creating Effective Forms (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 385
Forms Programming (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 389
Tables (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 395
Table Tags (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 398
Newest Table Tags (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 416
Beyond Ordinary Tables (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 429
Frames (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 430
Frame Tags (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 432
Frame Layout (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 434
Frame Contents (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 441
The Tag (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 445
Inline Frames (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 448
Named Frame or Window Targets (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 451
Executable Content (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 456
Embedded Content (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 460
JavaScript (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 477
JavaScript Style Sheets (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 487
Dynamic Documents (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 495
Client-Pull Documents (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 497
Server -Push Documents (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 502
Netscape Layout Extensions (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 506
Multicolumn Layout (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 513
Layers (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 519
XML (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 531
Documents and DTDs (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 535
Understanding XML DTDs (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 537
Element Grammar (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 541
Element Attributes (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 546
Conditional Sections (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 549
Building an XML DTD (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 551
Using XML (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 553
XHTML (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 556
Creating XHTML Documents (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 559
HTML Versus XHTML (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 563
Should You Use XHTML? (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 569
Tips, Tricks, and Hacks (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 572
Trivial or Abusive? (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 575
Custom Bullets (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 576
Tricks with Tables (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 578
Transparent Images (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 586
Tricks with Windows and Frames (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 589
HTML Grammar (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 592
The Grammar (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 596
HTML/XHTML Tag Quick Reference (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 613
HTML Quick Reference (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 616
Cascading Style Sheet Properties Quick Reference (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 655
The HTML 4.01 DTD (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 664
The XHTML 1.0 DTD (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 681
Character Entities (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 701
Color Names and Values (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 710
Color Names (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 712
The Standard Color Map (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 715
Index (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide)……Page 717
Colophon (HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition)……Page 718
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