HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition By Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
August 2002
Pages: 670

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

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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