What’s Changed in the Sixth Edition

The first edition of this book, published in 1996, had 11 chapters, 2 appendices, and just 176 pages. The sixth edition in your hands has 25 chapters, 6 appendices and more than 450 pages. This book has expanded and adapted as (X)HTML and CSS have grown and changed.

What’s new

The curious thing this time around is that (X)HTML and CSS have not changed considerably since the last edition. That does not mean, however that the book is just a rehashing of that earlier edition, because indeed the Web itself has changed dramatically. In the three short years since the Fifth Edition, we have seen a maturing of CSS layout techniques, which we’ll explore with brand new code examples in particular in Chapter 11 but ...

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