HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 675 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 4th Edition March 17, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470128615
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470128619
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.7 inches
• Weighs: 2.2 pounds

Product Description
Speak the right language and the Web is yours

Decipher the code, use the right tools, and conquer the online world of the World Wide Web. This comprehensive guide demystifies HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) so you can create sophisticated and interactive Web pages, robust applications, and as many other ways of interacting on the Web as you can think of. You'll even learn to code cool content for many mobile devices that include a browser. Inside, find all the tools, tips, and techniques you need to succeed.

• Explore the underlying structure of all Web pages
• Learn the basics of text structure, meta tags, links, and more
• Write scripts, master dynamic HTML, and use CSS editing tools
• Create Web pages for mobile devices with XHTML Basic
• Harness new Web 2.0 features with microformats
• Add colors, backgrounds, multimedia, and interactivity
• Clean up, test, and validate your code

Companion Web Site
Code samples from the book are available for download at www.wiley.com/go/htmlxhtmlandcssbible4e

Download Description

• An expanded, updated, and retitled edition of HTML Bible, looking at HTML, XHTML-a set of extensions to HTML to make it more like XML-and cascading style sheets (CSS), which provide a simple way to add consistent formatting to HTML Web documents
• Focusing on reader feedback and changing industry trends, this new edition is a major overhaul that addresses the extensive changes in Web development
• Shows readers the best, most efficient way to use HTML and looks at which peripheral technologies are worth learning for the long run
• Features "before and after" pictures that show the results of improved Web page coding
• Offers continued coverage of key topics, including site administration, dynamic data-driven pages, and many others, in addition to new sections on hot new topics such as blogs and content management

Reader Reviews
This review is from: HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible (Bible) 3rd Edition (Paperback) The title is misguiding. It's everything but an HTML, XHTML & CSS Bible. Title should read "Become a webmaster in a month". I expected to have: - The full HTML Specification with an example for each definition - Same for XHTML (DTD, rules to respect, validation, etc...) - Same for CSS and *PLEASE*, at least the basics of tableless CSS layout If the book were to expose the aforementioned information, it would exceed the 800 pages, and the author wouldn't have had to put some more information that is useful, I agree, but it's off-topic, sorry. The author should stress a lot more on standards. Standards are important, and one can't call a book a "Bible" if it only covers 75% of HTML, 50% of XHTML and hardly covers basics of CSS. It lacks information on the PNG file format (open source). Mention of the Opera Browser is almost non-existent, even if it's the most standard-compliant browser. Using tables to create a layout is old-fashioned and many good books (by Dan Cederholm, Jeffrey Zeldman or Eric Meyer) proove that one should *NOT* use tables for layout so that structure and content are clearly seperated from presentation. Without this discipline, the web won't be able to evolve toward XML. The book talks about image retouching, which again is off-topic, pretty much like SMIL, multimedia, FTP, maintainance, databases, weblogs, PHP & MySQL. I noticed several errors, and then I stopped writing them down. These are some of them: - p.93 PNG, is stored without being compressed doesn't loose color or image quality, and does support transparency. At least this can be achieved in Photoshop CS. - p.108 I find it sad that the author doesn't show how image maps are done with circles and polygons - chap.9 "Special characters" should show a sample for every single entity - p.184 The author puts the e-mail address into the code. How is it possible?! With all the spam problems people keep complaining, how come the author doesn't display the e-mail address thanks to a javascript to hide it from spambots? - p.188 in Part III instead of in Part II - p.210 He forgot that the label tag can nest the radio button and the text without ID. - p.284 div.div1 table should read div.div1