HTML: The Definitive Guide (Nutshell Handbooks) - Softcover

Musciano, Chuck; Kennedy, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565922352 ISBN 13: 9781565922358

Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Inc., 1997

Synopsis

Netscape Navigator 4.0! Internet Explorer 4.0! HTML 3.2! JavaScript! Style sheets! Layers! HTML is changing so fast it's almost impossible to keep up with developments. How do you know what's real, and how do you use it? This book brings it all together for you. HTML: The Definitive Guide is the most comprehensive book available on HTML today. It covers the latest standard, HTML 3.2, and all of the features supported by every popular Web browser, including the latest editions of Netscape and Internet Explorer.

Learning HTML is like learning any new language, computer or human. Most students first immerse themselves in examples. Studying others is a natural way to learn, making learning easy and fun. Imitation can take you only so far, though. It's as easy to learn bad habits through imitation as it is to acquire good ones. The better way to become HTML-fluent is through a comprehensive reference that covers the language syntax, semantics, and variations in detail and helps you distinguish between good and bad usage.

HTML: The Definitive Guide helps you both ways: the authors cover every element of HTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. Many hints about HTML style help you accomplish a variety of tasks, from simple online documentation to complex marketing and sales presentations. With hundreds of examples, the book gives you models for writing your own effective Web pages and mastering advanced features, like style sheets and frames.

HTML: The Definitive Guide shows you how to:

• Use style sheets and layers to control a document's appearance
• Create tables, from simple to complex
• Use Netscape's frames to coordinate sets of documents
• Design and build interactive forms
• Insert images, sound files, video, applets, and JavaScript programs
• Create dynamic documents with server-push and client-pull

A handy quick reference card listing HTML tags is included.

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Review

For those with some HTML knowledge, HTML: The Definitive Guide is a practical text that covers HTML 3.2 syntax, semantics, and elements of style and explains each tag in detail. Using this guide, you can learn how HTML elements interact with each other, how browsers have limitations and differences, and how to create documents that look good on a variety of browsers. HTML: The Definitive Guide also details cascading style sheets, tables, frames, forms, inserting images, sound files, video, applets, JavaScript programs, and layers.

This guide will teach you the most effective use of HTML to accomplish a variety of tasks, from simple to complex. You'll become fluent in the language and learn to distinguish between good and bad HTML usage.

Book Description

Creating Effective Web Pages

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Inc.
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565922352
• ISBN 13: 9781565922358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 531