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HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide

by: Castro, Elizabeth

HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide

by: Castro, Elizabeth

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9780201354935
ISBN 10:
0201354934
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2000
Publisher: Peachpit Press
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Summary

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the lingua franca of the Web, and like any language, it's constantly evolving. That's why Elizabeth Castro has writtenHTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, an update to her blockbuster guide to HTML 4. You'll find all the concise, practical advice--and fun examples--that made the first edition a worldwide bestseller, plus entirely new coverage of debugging, JavaScript, and using tables for page layout, and an expanded section on Cascading Style Sheets.Like all the books in theVisual QuickStartseries, this one breaks even the most complex tasks into easy-to-follow steps illustrated with hundreds of screenshots and the actual code. The book presumes no prior knowledge of HTML, making it the perfect introduction for beginners. But its tabbed format and info-packed appendixes (on special HTML characters and Web-safe colors, for example) also make it a handy and indispensable reference for those who build Web pages for a living. Find out why Amazon called the previous edition a "dream guide" to HTML.

Introduction

(10)

The Internet, the Web, and HTML

(1)

Open but Not Equal

(1)

The Browser Wars

(1)

The Push for Standards

(1)

The Current Battlegrounds

(2)

What To Do?

(1)

The Future: XML

(1)

The HTML VQS Web Site

(1)

Chapter 1: HTML Building Blocks

(10)

Writing HTML

(1)

HTML Tags

(2)

Nesting Tags

(1)

Spacing

(1)

Special Symbols

(1)

File Names

(1)

URLs

(4)

Chapter 2: Starting Your Web Page

(12)

Designing Your Site

(1)

Organizing Files

(1)

Creating a New Web Page

(1)

Starting Your Web Page

(1)

Creating the Foundation

(1)

Creating a Title

(1)

Organizing the Page

(1)

Starting a New Paragraph

(1)

Saving Your Web Page

(2)

Viewing Your Page in a Browser

(1)

Chapter 3: Text Formatting

(14)

About Deprecated Tags

(1)

Changing the Font

(1)

Making Text Bold or Italic

(1)

Choosing a Default Size for Text

(1)

Changing the Text Size

(2)

Choosing a Default Color for Text

(1)

Changing the Text Color

(1)

Creating Superscripts and Subscripts

(1)

Striking Out or Underlining Text

(1)

Using a Monospaced Font

(1)

Making Text Blink

(1)

Hiding Text (Adding Comments)

(1)

Chapter 4: Creating Web Images

(24)

Getting Images

(1)

Making Images Smaller

(2)

Exporting GIF Images from Photoshop

(2)

Using (Mostly) Browser Safe Colors

(2)

Converting to Browser Safe Colors

(1)

Reducing the Number of Colors

(1)

Creating Transparency

(2)

Creating Fake Transparency

(1)

Interlacing GIF Images

(1)

Creating Animated GIFs

(2)

Creating JPEG Images

(1)

Blurring Images to Aid JPEG Compression

(1)

Creating Low Resolution Images

(1)

Creating PNG Files

(2)

Chapter 5: Using Images

(16)

Inserting Images on a Page

(1)

Offering Alternate Text

(1)

Specifying Size for Speedier Viewing

(2)

Linking Icons to External Images

(1)

Using Low Resolution Images

(1)

Wrapping Text around Images

(2)

Stopping Text Wrap

(1)

Adding Space around an Image

(1)

Scaling an Image

(1)

Aligning Images

(1)

Using a Banner

(1)

Adding Horizontal Rules

(2)

Chapter 6: Page Layout

(20)

Using Background Color

(1)

Using Background Images

(1)

Centering Elements on a Page

100

(1)

Specifying the Margins

101

(1)

Creating a Line Break

102

(1)

Keeping Lines Together

103

(1)

Creating Discretionary Line Breaks

104

(1)

Specifying the Space Between Paragraphs

105

(1)

Creating Indents

106

(1)

Creating Indents (with Lists)

107

(1)

Creating Blocks of Space

108

(1)

Using Pixel Shims

109

(1)

Using Block Quotes

110

(1)

Quoting Short Passages of Text

111

(1)

Creating Columns

112

(1)

Using Preformatted Text

113

(1)

Positioning Elements with Layers

114

(3)

Chapter 7: Links

117

(18)

Creating a Link to Another Web Page

118

(2)

Creating Anchors

120

(1)

Linking to a Specific Anchor

121

(1)

Targeting Links to Specific Windows

122

(1)

Setting the Default Target

123

(1)

Creating Other Kinds of Links

124

(2)

Creating Keyboard Shortcuts for Links

126

(1)

Setting the Tab Order for Links

127

(1)

Using Images to Label Links

128

(1)

Dividing an Image into Clickable Regions

129

(1)

Creating a Client-Side Image Map

130

(2)

Using a Server-Side Image Map

132

(1)

Changing the Color of Links

133

(2)

Chapter 8: Lists

135

(8)

Creating Ordered Lists

136

(2)

Creating Unordered Lists

138

(2)

Creating Definition Lists

140

(1)

Creating Nested Lists

141

(2)

Chapter 9: Tables

143

(24)

Mapping Out Your Page

144

(1)

Creating a Simple Table

145

(1)

Adding a Border

146

(1)

Changing the Border Color

147

(1)

Setting the Width

148

(1)

Centering a Table on the Page

149

(1)

Wrapping Text around a Table

150

(1)

Adding Space around a Table

151

(1)

Spanning a Cell across Columns

152

(1)

Spanning a Cell across Rows

153

(1)

Aligning a Cell's Contents

154

(1)

Controlling Space in and Around Cells

155

(1)

Nesting One Table in Another

156

(2)

Changing a Cell's Color

158

(1)

Using a Background Image

159

(1)

Dividing Your Table into Column Groups

160

(2)

Dividing the Table into Horizontal Sections

162

(1)

Choosing Which Borders to Display

163

(2)

Controlling Line Breaks in a Cell

165

(1)

Speeding up Table Display

166

(1)

Chapter 10: Frames

167

(20)

Creating a Simple Frameset

168

(2)

Creating Frames in Columns

170

(1)

Creating Frames in Rows and Columns

171

(1)

Combining Framesets

172

(2)

Creating an Inline Frame

174

(1)

Adjusting a Frame's Margins

175

(1)

Showing or Hiding Scroll Bars

176

(1)

Adjusting the Color of the Borders

177

(1)

Adjusting the Frame Borders

178

(2)

Keeping Visitors from Resizing Frames

180

(1)

Targeting Links to Particular Frames

181

(1)

Targeting Links to Special Spots

182

(1)

Changing the Default Target

183

(1)

Nesting Framesets

184

(1)

Creating Alternatives to Frames

185

(2)

Chapter 11: Forms

187

(30)

About CGI Scripts

188

(2)

Getting a Script

190

(1)

Using the Scripts Included with This Book

191

(1)

Preparing a Script

192

(1)

Creating a Form

193

(1)

Sending Form Data via E-mail

194

(1)

Using a Form Hosting Service

195

(1)

Creating Text Boxes

196

(1)

Creating Password Boxes

197

(1)

Creating Larger Text Areas

198

(1)

Creating Radio Buttons

199

(1)

Creating Checkboxes

200

(1)

Creating Menus

201

(2)

Allowing Visitors to Upload Files

203

(1)

About Hidden Fields

204

(1)

Adding Hidden Fields to a Form

205

(1)

Creating the Submit Button

206

(2)

Resetting the Form

208

(2)

Using an Image to Submit Data

210

(1)

Organizing the Form Elements

211

(1)

Formally Labeling Form Parts

212

(1)

Setting the Tab Order

213

(1)

Adding Keyboard Shortcuts

214

(1)

Disabling Form Elements

215

(1)

Keeping Elements from Being Changed

216

(1)

Chapter 12: Multimedia

217

(22)

Helper Applications and Plug-ins

218

(1)

Non-Supported Images

219

(1)

Sound

220

(1)

Getting Sound

221

(1)

Embedding Sound in a Page

222

(2)

Adding a Link to a Sound

224

(1)

Adding Background Sound for Explorer

225

(1)

Creating RealMedia Files

226

(2)

Creating a RealMedia Metafile

228

(1)

Linking to a RealMedia Sound

229

(1)

Embedding RealMedia Files in Your Page

230

(2)

Video

232

(1)

Adding External Video to Your Page

233

(1)

Adding Internal Video

234

(1)

Adding Internal Video for Explorer

235

(1)

Creating a Marquee

236

(1)

Inserting Applets

237

(2)

Chapter 13: An Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

239

(4)

The Advantages of Using Style Sheets

240

(1)

The Downside of Style Sheets

241

(1)

The Anatomy of a Style

242

(1)

Chapter 14: Setting up Style Sheets

243

(14)

Creating an Internal Style Sheet

244

(2)

Creating an External Style Sheet

246

(1)

Using an External Style Sheet

247

(1)

Applying Styles Locally

248

(1)

Defining Styles for Classes

249

(1)

Identifying Particular Tags

250

(1)

Creating Custom HTML Tags

251

(1)

Creating Custom Block-Level HTML Tags

252

(1)

Using Custom Block-Level HTML Tags

253

(1)

Creating Custom Inline HTML Tags

254

(1)

Using Custom Inline HTML Tags

255

(1)

Defining Styles for Links

256

(1)

Chapter 15: Formatting Text with Styles

257

(16)

Choosing a Font Family

258

(1)

Embedding Fonts on a Page

259

(1)

Creating Italics

260

(1)

Applying Bold Formatting

261

(1)

Setting the Font Size

262

(1)

Setting the Line Height

263

(1)

Setting All Font Values at Once

264

(1)

Setting the Text Color

265

(1)

Changing the Text's Background

266

(1)

Controlling Spacing

267

(1)

Setting White Space Properties

268

(1)

Aligning Text

269

(1)

Underlining Text

270

(1)

Making Text Blink

271

(1)

Changing the Text Case

272

(1)

Chapter 16: Layout with Styles

273

(18)

Offsetting Elements In the Natural Flow

274

(1)

Positioning Elements Absolutely

275

(1)

Positioning Elements in 3D

276

(1)

Displaying and Hiding Elements

277

(1)

Setting the Height or Width for an Element

278

(1)

Setting the Border

279

(1)

Adding Padding Around an Element

280

(1)

Setting the Margins around an Element

281

(1)

Aligning Elements Vertically

282

(1)

Wrapping Text around Elements

283

(1)

Stopping Text Wrap

284

(1)

Changing the Foreground Color

285

(1)

Changing the Background

286

(1)

Determining Where Overflow Should Go

287

(1)

Clipping an Element

288

(1)

Setting List Properties

289

(1)

Specifying Page Breaks

290

(1)

Chapter 17: Scripts

291

(10)

Adding an "Automatic" Script

292

(1)

Calling an External Automatic Script

293

(1)

Triggering a Script

294

(2)

Creating a Button that Executes a Script

296

(1)

Hiding Scripts from Older Browsers

297

(1)

Adding Alternate Information

298

(1)

Setting the Default Scripting Language

299

(2)

Chapter 18: JavaScript Essentials

301

(8)

Adding the Current Date and Time

302

(1)

Changing a Link's Status Label

303

(1)

Changing Multiple Frames with One Link

304

(1)

Loading Images into Cache

305

(1)

Changing an Image When a Visitor Points

306

(2)

Controlling a New Window's Size

308

(1)

Chapter 19: Extras

309

(14)

The Inspiration of Others

310

(1)

Password Protecting Your Page

311

(1)

Creating a Counter

312

(1)

Souping Up Mailto Links

313

(1)

Slicing Images into Pieces

314

(2)

Creating Buttons with Tables

316

(1)

Using Images for Table Borders

317

(1)

Creating Drop Caps

318

(1)

Using Vertical Rules

319

(1)

Labeling Elements in a Web Page

320

(1)

Creating an Automatic Slide Show

321

(2)

Chapter 20: Help! My Page Doesn't Work!

323

(6)

Checking Your Code

323

(1)

The Browser Displays the Code

324

(1)

Great in Explorer, Nothing in Netscape

325

(1)

Great in One Browser, Ugly in the Other

326

(1)

Images Don't Appear

327

(1)

Still Stuck?

328

(1)

Chapter 21: Publishing Your Page on the Web

329

(10)

Testing Your Page

330

(2)

Finding a Host for Your Site

332

(1)

Getting Your Own Domain Name

333

(1)

Transferring Files to the Server

334

(4)

Transferring Files to AOL

338

(1)

Chapter 22: Getting People to Visit

339

(10)

Helping Visitors Find Your Page

340

(1)

Controlling Your Page's Summary

341

(1)

Controlling Other Information

342

(1)

Keeping Visitors Away

343

(1)

Creating a Crawler Page

344

(2)

Submitting Your Site to a Search Engine

346

(1)

Appearing at the Top of the Search Results

347

(1)

Other Techniques for Publicizing Your Site

348

(1)

Appendix A: HTML Tools

349

(4)

HTML Editors

350

(2)

Free-use Images for Your Pages

352

(1)

Graphics Tools

352

(1)

Image Map Tools

352

(1)

Appendix B: Special Symbols

353

(4)

Using Special Symbols

354

(1)

Table I: Characters

355

(1)

Table II: Symbols

356

(1)

Appendix C: Colors in Hex

357

(4)

Finding a Color's RGB Components--in Hex

358

(1)

Hexadecimal Equivalents

359

(1)

The Hexadecimal System

359

(2)

Appendix D: HTML and Compatibility

361

(8)

HTML Tags

362

(6)

Intrinsic Events

368

(1)

Index

369

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