Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy

HTML & Xhtml: The Definitive Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

HTML is changing so fast it's almost impossible to keep up with developments. XHTML is HTML 4.0 rewritten in XML; it provides the precision of XML while retaining the flexibility of HTML. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition, brings it all together. It's the most comprehensive book available on HTML and XHTML today. It covers Netscape Navigator 6.0, Internet Explorer 5.0, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, JavaScript, Style sheets, Layers, and all of the features supported by the popular web browsers.

Learning HTML and XHTML 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 learning 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 demonstrates the difference between good and bad usage.

HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition, helps in both ways: the authors cover every element of HTML/XHTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. Many hints about HTML/XHTML style smooth the way for writing documents that range from simple online documentation to complex presentations. With hundreds of examples, the book gives web authors models for writing their own effective web pages and for mastering advanced features, like style sheets and frames.

HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition, shows how to:

- Implement the XHTML 1.0 standard and prepare web pages for the transition to XML browsers

- Use style sheets and layers to control a document's appearance

- Create tables, from simple to complex

- Use frames to coordinate sets of documents

- Design and build interactive forms and dynamic documents

- Insert images, sound files, video, Java applets, and JavaScript programs

- Create documents that look good on a variety of browsers The book comes with a handy quick reference card listing HTML tags.

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"...lucid, in-depth descriptions of the behavior of every HTML tag on every major browser and platform, plus enough dry humor to make the book a pleasure to read."
--Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine

"When they say 'definitive' they're not kidding."
--Linda Roeder, About.com

Put everthing you need to know about HTML & XHTML at your fingertips. For nearly a decade, hundreds of thousands of web developers have turned to HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide to master standards-based web development. Truly a definitive guide, the book combines a unique balance of tutorial material with a comprehensive reference that even the most experienced web professionals keep close at hand. From basic syntax and semantics to guidelines aimed at helping you develop your own distinctive style, this classic is all you need to become fluent in the language of web design.

The new sixth edition guides you through every element of HTML and XHTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. You'll also find detailed discussions of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which is intricately related to web page development. The most all-inclusive, up-to-date book on these languages available, this edition covers HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and CSS2, with a preview of the upcoming XHTML2 and CSS3. Other topics include the newer initiatives in XHTML (XForms, XFrames, and modularization) and the essentials of XML for advanced readers. You'll learn how to:
Use style sheets to control your document's appearance
Work with programmatically generated HTML
Create tables, both simple and complex
Use frames to coordinate sets of documents
Design and build interactive forms and dynamic documents
Insert images, sound files, video, Java applets, and JavaScript programs
Create documents that look good on a variety of browsers

The authors apply a natural learning approach that uses straightforward language and plenty of examples. Throughout the book, they offer suggestions for style and composition to help you decide how to best use HTML and XHTML to accomplish a variety of tasks. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, and what makes sense to those who view your web pages and what might be confusing. Written for anyone who wants to learn the language of the Web--from casual users to the full-time design professionals--this is the single most important book on HTML and XHTML you can own.

Bill Kennedy is chief technical officer of MobileRobots, Inc. When not hacking new HTML pages or writing about them, "Dr. Bill" (Ph.D. in biophysics from Loyola University of Chicago) is out promoting the company's line of mobile, autonomous robots that can be used for artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic research, and education.

Chuck Musciano began his career as a compiler writer and crafter of tools at Harris Corporations' Advanced Technology Group and is now a manager of Unix Systems in Harris' Corporate Data Center.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• 6th ed.
• Seitenzahl: 678
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 179mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 966g
• ISBN-13: 9780596527327
• ISBN-10: 0596527322
• Artikelnr.: 20867025

Autorenporträt

Chuck Musciano has spent his life on the East Coast, having spent time in Maryland, Georgia, and New Jersey before acquiring a B.S. in computer science from Georgia Tech in 1982. Since then, he has resided in Melbourne, Florida, in the employ of Harris Corporation. He began his career as a compiler writer and crafter of tools and went on to join Harris' Advanced Technology Group to help develop large-scale multiprocessors. This led to a prolonged interest in user-interface research and development, which finally gave way to his current position, manager of UNIX Systems in Harris' Corporate Data Center. Along the way, he grew to know and love the Internet, having contributed a number of publicly available tools to the Net and started the still-running Internet Movie Ratings Report. The Web was a natural next step, and he has been running various Web sites within and without Harris for several years. Chuck has written on UNIX-related topics in the trade press for the past decade, most visibly as the "Webmaster" columnist for Sunworld Online (http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline). In his spare time he enjoys life in Florida with his wife Cindy, daughter Courtney, and son Cole.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Preface
Our Audience
Text Conventions
Versions and Semantics
HTML Versus XHTML
Using Code Examples
Safari® Enabled
Comments and Questions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: HTML, XHTML, and the World Wide Web
1.1 The Internet
1.2 Talking the Internet Talk
1.3 HTML and XHTML: What They Are
1.4 HTML and XHTML: What They Aren't
1.5 Standards and Extensions
1.6 Tools for the Web Designer
Chapter 2: Quick Start
2.1 Writing Tools
2.2 A First HTML Document
2.3 Embedded Tags
2.4 HTML Skeleton
2.5 The Flesh on an HTML or XHTML Document
2.6 Text
2.7 Hyperlinks
2.8 Images Are Special
2.9 Lists, Searchable Documents, and Forms
2.10 Tables
2.11 Frames
2.12 Stylesheets and JavaScript
2.13 Forging Ahead
Chapter 3: Anatomy of an HTML Document
3.1 Appearances Can Deceive
3.2 Structure of an HTML Document
3.3 Tags and Attributes
3.4 Well-Formed Documents and XHTML
3.5 Document Content
3.6 HTML/XHTML Document Elements
3.7 The Document Header
3.8 The Document Body
3.9 Editorial Markup
3.10 The Tag
Chapter 4: Text Basics
4.1 Divisions and Paragraphs
4.2 Headings
4.3 Changing Text Appearance and Meaning
4.4 Content-Based Style Tags
4.5 Physical Style Tags
4.6 Precise Spacing and Layout
4.7 Block Quotes
4.8 Addresses
4.9 Special Character Encoding
4.10 HTML's Obsolete Expanded Font Handling
Chapter 5: Rules, Images, and Multimedia
5.1 Horizontal Rules
5.2 Inserting Images in Your Documents
5.3 Document Colors and Background Images
5.4 Background Audio
5.5 Animated Text
5.6 Other Multimedia Content
Chapter 6: Links and Webs
6.1 Hypertext Basics
6.2 Referencing Documents: The URL
6.3 Creating Hyperlinks
6.4 Creating Effective Links
6.5 Mouse-Sensitive Images
6.6 Creating Searchable Documents
6.7 Relationships
6.8 Supporting Document Automation
Chapter 7: Formatted Lists
7.1 Unordered Lists
7.2 Ordered Lists
7.3 The 1. Tag
7.4 Nesting Lists
7.5 Definition Lists
7.6 Appropriate List Usage
7.7 Directory Lists
7.8 Menu Lists
Chapter 8: Cascading Style Sheets
8.1 The Elements of Styles
8.2 Style Syntax
8.3 Style Classes
8.4 Style Properties
8.5 Tagless Styles: The Tag
8.6 Applying Styles to Documents
Chapter 9: Forms
9.1 Form Fundamentals
9.2 The Tag
9.3 A Simple Form Example
9.4 Using Email to Collect Form Data
9.5 The Tag
9.6 The Tag
9.7 Multiline Text Areas
9.8 Multiple-Choice Elements
9.9 General Form-Control Attributes
9.10 Labeling and Grouping Form Elements
9.11 Creating Effective Forms
9.12 Forms Programming
Chapter 10: Tables
10.1 The Standard Table Model
10.2 Basic Table Tags
10.3 Advanced Table Tags
10.4 Beyond Ordinary Tables
Chapter 11: Frames
11.1 An Overview of Frames
11.2 Frame Tags
11.3 Frame Layout
11.4 Frame Contents
11.5 The Tag
11.6 Inline Frames
11.7 Named Frame or Window Targets
11.8 XFrames
Chapter 12: Executable Content
12.1 Applets and Objects
12.2 Embedded Content
12.3 JavaScript
12.4 JavaScript Stylesheets (Antiquated)
Chapter 13: Dynamic Documents
13.1 An Overview of Dynamic Documents
13.2 Client-Pull Documents
13.3 Server-Push Documents
Chapter 14: Mobile Devices
14.1 The Mobile Web
14.2 Device Considerations
14.3 XHTML Basic
14.4 Effective Mobile Web Design
Chapter 15: XML
15.1 Languages and Metalanguages
15.2 Documents and DTDs
15.3 Understanding XML DTDs
15.4 Element Grammar
15.5 Element Attributes
15.6 Conditional Sections
15.7 Building an XML DTD
15.8 Using XML
Chapter 16: XHTML
16.1 Why XHTML?
16.2 Creating XHTML Documents
16.3 HTML Versus XHTML
16.4 XHTML 1.1
16.5 Should You Use XHTML?
Chapter 17: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks
17.1 Top of the Tips
17.2 Cleaning Up After Your HTML Editor
17.3 Tricks with Tables
17.4 Tricks with Windows and Frames
Appendix A: HTML Grammar
A.1 Grammatical Conventions
A.2 The Grammar
Appendix B: HTML/XHTML Tag Quick Reference
B.1 Core Attributes
B.2 HTML Quick Reference
Appendix C: Cascading Style Sheet Properties Quick Reference
Appendix D: The HTML 4.01 DTD
Appendix E: The XHTML 1.0 DTD
Appendix F: Character Entities
Appendix G: Color Names and Values
G.1 Color Values
G.2 Color Names
G.3 The Standard Color Map
Appendix H: Netscape Layout Extensions
H.1 Creating Whitespace
H.2 Multicolumn Layout
H.3 Layers
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