Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 678 pages
- Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Edition: 6th Edition October 17, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0596527322
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596527327
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 2.2 pounds
Product Review
Plenty of books can teach you HTML quickly, getting you up to speed and hacking out Web pages in no time.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide offers a more comprehensive and pragmatic look at the de facto markup language of today, as well as the emerging next step.
This title systematically presents HTML markup, beginning with the basics--such as the anatomy of an HTML document, text, and links--and proceeding to cascading style sheets, JavaScript, and XML. Along the way, it discusses related issues, such as problems with displaying background images, and browser-specific behavior with tables and other elements. Each element is covered in as much depth as is necessary to frame the key implementation issues.
Most of the book is entirely relevant to basic HTML coding without any concern for XHTML. The latter, more cutting-edge flavor of markup is covered in depth near the end of the book. The entire specifications for the HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 Document Type Definitions (DTDs) are included among the appendices.
While
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide is an great tutorial for learning markup the right way, it is also a superb desktop reference guide to keep nearby for daily use. Perhaps, there is no greater compliment for a Web development book.
--Stephen W. Plain Topics covered: - Markup basics
- HTML document structure
- Text handling
- Images
- Multimedia
- Links and URLs
- Formatted lists
- Tables
- Forms
- Cascading style sheets
- Frames
- JavaScript
- Applets and objects
- Dynamic documents
- Netscape Layout Extensions
- XML
- XHTML
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Review
' a well priced and written, comprehnensive HTML and XHTML guide which continues to be useful as a language reference' Rating 9/10 Linux Format, December 2000 'If you want the very best reference manual to HTML and its latest developments this is it. I guarantee that no matter which other web page design books you might have on your shelves, this is the one to which you will keep coming back again and again. www.mantex.co.uk
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition (Paperback)
This is a fat book with a lot to like in it. The authors thoroughly explain HTML (and its recently-standardized twin XHTML) in its latest version (4.01). They also give a good explication of layout using the current standard (CSS2) of Cascading Style Sheets. They spend some time talking about embedded content such as pictures, Java applets and Javascript scripts. They look, too, at XML, which is the "meta-language" used to define XHTML. At the time they wrote this book (2002) the versions of the standardized languages they discuss were in the avant-garde. But many of the old ways of doing things are now obsolete, and older browser versions gone. Unfortunately, the authors constantly advert to these early browser versions and their quirks, and spend much time discussing outmoded and non-standard techniques that by their own admission should be avoided. (Let me emphasize that they whole-heartedly approve of the direction away from non-standard and layout-laden HTML and toward the CSS approach.) As it is, this book is quite usable whether you are writing old-fashioned HTML and loading your documents with physical layout instructions, or writing austere strict-version XHTML and restraining yourself to using style sheets to do layout. It has detailed essays on all the tags and a good chapter on CSS, and has useful appendices at the end for HTML grammer and tags, and for style sheet properties. It also has much that no longer applies. Perhaps the next edition will be less universally useful -- but also lighter.
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