Beginning HTML and CSS

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Table of Contents
3. Chapter 1: Structuring Documents for the Web
   1. A Web of Structured Documents
   2. Introducing HTML5
   3. Attribute Groups
   4. Core Elements
   5. Basic Text Formatting
   6. Understanding Block and Inline Elements
   7. Grouping Content
   8. Working with Lists
   9. Summary
4. Chapter 2: Fine-tuning Your Text
   1. Elements That Describe Text-Level Semantics
   2. Editing Text
   3. Using Character Entities for Special Characters
   4. Comments
   5. Summary
5. Chapter 3: Links and Navigation
   1. Basic Links
   2. Understanding Directories and Directory Structures
   3. Understanding URLs
   4. Creating In-Page Links with the <a> Element
   5. Advanced E-mail Links
   6. Summary
6. Chapter 4: Images, Audio, and Video
   1. Adding Images Using the <img> Element
   2. Using Images as Links
   3. Choosing the Right Image Format
   4. Adding Flash, Video, and Audio to Your Web Pages
   5. Summary
7. Chapter 5: Tables
   1. Introducing Tables
   2. Basic Table Elements and Attributes
   3. Adding a Caption to a Table
   4. Grouping Sections of a Table
   5. Nested Tables
   6. Accessible Tables
   7. Summary
8. Chapter 6: Forms
   1. Introducing Forms
   2. Creating a Form with the <form> Element
   3. Form Controls
   4. Creating a Contact Form
   5. Creating Labels for Controls and the <label> Element
   6. Structuring Your Forms with <fieldset> and <legend> Elements
   7. Focus
   8. Disabled and Read-Only Controls
   9. Sending Form Data to the Server
   10. Creating More Usable Form Fields
   11. Summary
9. Chapter 7: Cascading Style Sheets
   1. Introducing CSS
   2. Where You Can Add CSS Rules
   3. CSS Properties
   4. Controlling Text
   5. Text Formatting
   6. Text Pseudo-Classes
   7. Styling Text
   8. Selectors
   9. Lengths
   10. Introducing the Box Model
   11. Creating a Style Sheet for Code
   12. Summary
10. Chapter 8: More Cascading Style Sheets
    1. Links
    2. Backgrounds
    3. Lists
    4. Tables
    5. Outlines
    6. The :focus and :active Pseudo-Classes
    7. Generated Content
    8. Miscellaneous Properties
    9. Additional Rules
    10. Positioning and Layout with CSS
    11. Summary
11. Chapter 9: Rounded Corners, Animations, Custom Fonts, and More with CSS3
    1. The Modular Approach of CSS3
    2. Mature CSS3 Modules
    3. New and In-Development Modules
    4. Summary
12. Chapter 10: Learning JavaScript
    1. What Is Programming About?
    2. How to Add a Script to Your Pages
    3. Create an External JavaScript
    4. The Document Object Model
    5. Starting to Program with JavaScript
    6. Variables
    7. Operators
    8. Functions
    9. Conditional Statements
    10. Looping
    11. Events
    12. Built-in Objects
    13. Writing JavaScript
    14. Summary
13. Chapter 11: Working with jQuery
    1. Why jQuery?
    2. Adding jQuery to Your Page
    3. jQuery Basics
    4. jQuery and the DOM
    5. Managing Events with jQuery
    6. Summary
14. Chapter 12: jQuery: Beyond the Basics
    1. Ajax with jQuery
    2. jQuery UI
    3. Summary
15. Chapter 13: Checklists
    1. Search Engine Optimization Checklist
    2. Accessibility Checklist
16. Appendix A: Answers to Exercises
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
    4. Chapter 4
    5. Chapter 5
    6. Chapter 6
    7. Chapter 7
    8. Chapter 8
    9. Chapter 9
    10. Chapter 10
    11. Chapter 11
    12. Chapter 12
    13. Chapter 13
17. Appendix B: HTML Element Reference
18. Appendix C: CSS Properties
    1. Font Properties
    2. Text Properties
    3. Color and Background Properties
    4. Border Properties
    5. Dimensions
    6. Margin Properties
    7. Padding Properties
    8. List Properties
    9. Positioning Properties
    10. Outline Properties
    11. Table Properties
    12. Classification Properties
    13. Internationalization Properties
    14. Selected CSS3 Properties
    15. Lengths
19. Appendix D: Color Names and Values
    1. Using Hex Codes to Specify Colors
    2. Understanding Hex Codes
    3. Using Color Names to Specify Colors
    4. Color Name and Number Reference
20. Appendix E: Character Encodings
21. Appendix F: Special Characters
    1. Character Entity References for ISO 8859-1 Characters
    2. Character Entity References for Symbols, Mathematical Symbols, and Greek Letters
    3. Character Entity References for Markup-Significant and Internationalization Characters
22. Appendix G: Language Codes
23. Appendix H: MIME Media Types
    1. Text
    2. Image
    3. Multipart
    4. Audio
    5. Video
    6. Message
    7. Model
    8. Application
24. Appendix I: Changes between HTML4 and HTML5
    1. New Elements
    2. New <input> Element Types
    3. New Attributes
    4. Global Attributes
    5. Changed Attributes
    6. Obsolete Elements
    7. Obsolete Attributes
    8. At-Risk Elements
25. About the Author
26. Credits
27. Acknowledgments
28. Introduction