Html and Css: The Comprehensive Guide

Web developers―this is your all-in-one guide to HTML and CSS! Learn to use HTML to format text and structure web pages. Understand the HTML document skeleton before creating forms, referencing hyperlinks, embedding active content, and more. Then style your pages with CSS: Create consistent designs with selectors, the box model, the cascade algorithm, and inheritance. Round out your client-side development experience by getting to know JavaScript. With detailed code examples, you’ll master HTML and CSS in no time!

• Your complete guide to HTML5 and CSS3
• Build HTML documents, design with CSS, and get a hands-on introduction to JavaScript basics
• Create responsive layouts, work with graphics and video, and more
• Consult and download practical code examples

HTML for Formatting and Structure
Master HTML syntax and document structure. Work with tags, elements, and attributes to build HTML documents. Create tables and forms, embed images, configure links, and develop interactive HTML elements.

CSS for Style and Design
Develop simple and complex web layouts with CSS rules, selectors, declarations, combinators, pseudoclasses, and pseudoelements. Understand the principles of cascading, specificity, and inheritance. Learn to use the CSS box model, the position property, and more.

JavaScript Fundamentals
Expand your knowledge with an introduction to JavaScript. See how to use variables, statements, functions, arrays, and objects to write and run simple programs. Explore the basics of Ajax for interactive web application design.

Jürgen Wolf is a web and software developer and the author of several seminal works about programming and photography.