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HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition

By
Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
August 2002
Pages:
672
Description
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide,5th Edition is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book available on HTML and XHTML. The authors cover every element of HTML/XHTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. With hundreds of examples, the book gives you models for writing your own effective web pages and for mastering advanced features like style sheets and frames.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 HTML, XHTML, and the World Wide Web

    1. The Internet

    2. Talking the Internet Talk

    3. HTML and XHTML: What They Are

    4. HTML and XHTML: What They Aren't

    5. Standards and Extensions

    6. Tools for the Web Designer

  2. Chapter 2 Quick Start

    1. Writing Tools

    2. A First HTML Document

    3. Embedded Tags

    4. HTML Skeleton

    5. The Flesh on an HTML or XHTML Document

    6. Text

    7. Hyperlinks

    8. Images Are Special

    9. Lists, Searchable Documents, and Forms

    10. Tables

    11. Frames

    12. Style Sheets and JavaScript

    13. Forging Ahead

  3. Chapter 3 Anatomy of an HTML Document

    1. Appearances Can Deceive

    2. Structure of an HTML Document

    3. Tags and Attributes

    4. Well-Formed Documents and XHTML

    5. Document Content

    6. HTML/XHTML Document Elements

    7. The Document Header

    8. The Document Body

    9. Editorial Markup

    10. The <bdo> Tag

  4. Chapter 4 Text Basics

    1. Divisions and Paragraphs

    2. Headings

    3. Changing Text Appearance and Meaning

    4. Content-Based Style Tags

    5. Physical Style Tags

    6. Precise Spacing and Layout

    7. Block Quotes

    8. Addresses

    9. Special Character Encoding

    10. HTML's Obsolete Expanded Font Handling

  5. Chapter 5 Rules, Images, and Multimedia

    1. Horizontal Rules

    2. Inserting Images in Your Documents

    3. Document Colors and Background Images

    4. Background Audio

    5. Animated Text

    6. Other Multimedia Content

  6. Chapter 6 Links and Webs

    1. Hypertext Basics

    2. Referencing Documents: The URL

    3. Creating Hyperlinks

    4. Creating Effective Links

    5. Mouse-Sensitive Images

    6. Creating Searchable Documents

    7. Relationships

    8. Supporting Document Automation

  7. Chapter 7 Formatted Lists

    1. Unordered Lists

    2. Ordered Lists

    3. The <li> Tag

    4. Nesting Lists

    5. Definition Lists

    6. Appropriate List Usage

    7. Directory Lists

    8. Menu Lists

  8. Chapter 8 Cascading Style Sheets

    1. The Elements of Styles

    2. Style Syntax

    3. Style Classes

    4. Style Properties

    5. Tagless Styles: The <span> Tag

    6. Applying Styles to Documents

  9. Chapter 9 Forms

    1. Form Fundamentals

    2. The <form> Tag

    3. A Simple Form Example

    4. Using Email to Collect Form Data

    5. The <input> Tag

    6. The <button> Tag

    7. Multiline Text Areas

    8. Multiple Choice Elements

    9. General Form-Control Attributes

    10. Labeling and Grouping Form Elements

    11. Creating Effective Forms

    12. Forms Programming

  10. Chapter 10 Tables

    1. The Standard Table Model

    2. Basic Table Tags

    3. Advanced Table Tags

    4. Beyond Ordinary Tables

  11. Chapter 11 Frames

    1. An Overview of Frames

    2. Frame Tags

    3. Frame Layout

    4. Frame Contents

    5. The <noframes> Tag

    6. Inline Frames

    7. Named Frame or Window Targets

  12. Chapter 12 Executable Content

    1. Applets and Objects

    2. Embedded Content

    3. JavaScript

    4. JavaScript Style Sheets (Antiquated)

  13. Chapter 13 Dynamic Documents

    1. An Overview of Dynamic Documents

    2. Client-Pull Documents

    3. Server -Push Documents

  14. Chapter 14 Netscape Layout Extensions

    1. Creating Whitespace

    2. Multicolumn Layout

    3. Layers

  15. Chapter 15 XML

    1. Languages and Metalanguages

    2. Documents and DTDs

    3. Understanding XML DTDs

    4. Element Grammar

    5. Element Attributes

    6. Conditional Sections

    7. Building an XML DTD

    8. Using XML

  16. Chapter 16 XHTML

    1. Why XHTML?

    2. Creating XHTML Documents

    3. HTML Versus XHTML

    4. XHTML 1.1

    5. Should You Use XHTML?

  17. Chapter 17 Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

    1. Top of the Tips

    2. Cleaning Up After Your HTML Editor

    3. Tricks with Tables

    4. Transparent Images

    5. Tricks with Windows and Frames

  1. Appendix A HTML Grammar

    1. Grammatical Conventions

    2. The Grammar

  2. Appendix B HTML/XHTML Tag Quick Reference

    1. Core Attributes

    2. HTML Quick Reference

  3. Appendix C Cascading Style Sheet Properties Quick Reference

  4. Appendix D The HTML 4.01 DTD

  5. Appendix E The XHTML 1.0 DTD

  6. Appendix F Character Entities

  7. Appendix G Color Names and Values

    1. Color Values

    2. Color Names

    3. The Standard Color Map

  8. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition
By:
Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
August 2002
Pages:
672
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-00382-1
| ISBN 10:
0-596-00382-X
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About the Authors

  1. Chuck Musciano

    Chuck Musciano has spent his life on the East Coast, having spent time in Maryland, Georgia, and New Jersey before acquiring a B.S. in computer science from Georgia Tech in 1982. Since then, he has resided in Melbourne, Florida, in the employ of Harris Corporation. He began his career as a compiler writer and crafter of tools and went on to join Harris' Advanced Technology Group to help develop large-scale multiprocessors. This led to a prolonged interest in user-interface research and development, which finally gave way to his current position, manager of UNIX Systems in Harris' Corporate Data Center. Along the way, he grew to know and love the Internet, having contributed a number of publicly available tools to the Net and started the still-running Internet Movie Ratings Report. The Web was a natural next step, and he has been running various Web sites within and without Harris for several years. Chuck has written on UNIX-related topics in the trade press for the past decade, most visibly as the "Webmaster" columnist for Sunworld Online (http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline). In his spare time he enjoys life in Florida with his wife Cindy, daughter Courtney, and son Cole.

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  2. Bill Kennedy

    Bill Kennedy is currently president and chief technical officer of ActivMedia, Inc., a new media marketing and marketing research company based in beautiful Peterborough, NH, but which conducts business with clients and associates from around the world primarily over the Internet (http://www.activmedia.com). When not hacking new HTML pages or writing about them, "Dr. Bill" (Ph.D. in biophysics from Loyola University of Chicago, of all things!) is out promoting a line of mobile, autonomous robots as real-world platforms for artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic research and for education (http://www.rwii.com). Or he's out drumming up writing assignments from his former colleagues at IDG's SunWorld/Advanced Systems Magazine (now SunWorld Online; http://www.sun.com), where he served as a senior editor-features (at-large over the Internet, of course) for nearly five years. Contact Dr. Bill directly at bkennedy@activmedia.com.

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition is a koala. The koala is an Australian marsupial, the only member of the Phascolarctidae family.

When they are born, koalas are tiny, weighing approximately 0.5 grams. A young koala stays in its mother's pouch for approximately seven months. Unlike most marsupials, the koala's pouch opens near the rear, not near the head. Koalas have a high mortality rate and face extinction in Australia due to epidemics in 1887-1889 and 1900-1903 and unrestrained hunting throughout the 20th century. They are a protected species. Populations are rebuilding, but at present, they survive only in eastern Australia. Rachel Wheeler was the production editor and proofreader for HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition. Mary Anne Weeks Mayo and Linley Dolby provided quality control. John Bickelhaupt and Ellen Troutman-Zaig wrote the index.

Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

Melanie Wang designed the interior layout, based on a series design by David Futato. Emma Colby designed the quick-reference card. This book was converted to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

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