Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2008 - Computers - 836 pages
This beginning guide reviews HTML and also introduces you to using XHTML for the structure of a web page and cascading style sheets (CSS) for controlling how a document should appear on a web page. You?ll learn how to take advantage of the latest features of browsers while making sure that your pages still work in older, but popular, browsers. By incorporating usability and accessibility, you?ll be able to write professional-looking and well-coded web pages that use the latest technologies.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Creating Structured Documents
1
Chapter 2 Links and Navigation
53
Chapter 3 Images and Objects
77
Chapter 4 Tables
109
Chapter 5 Forms
139
Chapter 6 Frames
185
Chapter 7 Cascading Style Sheets
211
Chapter 8 More Cascading Style Sheets
273
Chapter 13 Putting Your Site on the Web
501
Appendix A Answers to Exercises
539
Appendix B XHTML Element Reference
563
Appendix C CSS Properties
607
Appendix D Color Names and Values
637
Appendix E Character Encodings
645
Appendix F Special Characters
649
Appendix G Language Codes
665

Chapter 9 Page Layout
323
Chapter 10 Design Issues
361
Chapter 11 Learning JavaScript
403
Chapter 12 Working with JavaScript
453
Appendix H MIME Media Types
669
Appendix I Deprecated and BrowserSpecific Markup
681
Index
715
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Jon Duckett published his first web site in 1996 while studying for a BSc (Hons) in Psychology at Brunel University, London. Since then, he has helped create a wide variety of web sites for companies of all sizes. He has also co-written more than ten programming-related books on topics from ASP to XML (via many other letters of the alphabet), covering diverse aspects of web programming including design, architecture, and coding.

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