HTML & XHTML - The Definitive Guide

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Author(s): Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy

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Since I have been creating a lot of pages on the http://www.wikioraapps.com web site, I was interested in how the browser and web server communicated. HTML & XHTML - The Definitive Guide provided me an excellent reference for the basic language of the Internet browser. I was not disappointed and this book will serve my needs on this topic for many years. This book is definitely a reference manual and not something that is meant to be read from cover to cover. I started turning pages at the beginning and progressed more or less in a straight sequence to the appendices at the end. The book progresses from the fundamental elements to the more complex. I would stop and read whenever something caught my eye that had puzzled me while looking at web pages. Now that I know what's in the book, I will be able to find the details whenever I need to understand in more detail.

I am convinced after reading this book that I will be able to visit a web site, and upon seeing something interesting, I can figure out how the author created the effect. Of course the TWiki technology that we use on this site insulates us from having to use HTML most of the time. The TWiki plugins and TWiki markup language simplify the hard part of coding a web page.

I think the chapters on cascading style sheets and forms will be most valuable to me. The quick reference guides at the end of the book will get a lot of use.

I recommend this book to anyone that wants to understand in more detail how a web page is rendered by the browser. It is 656 pages. The table of contents for HTML & XHTML includes the following topics:

HTML, XHTML and the World Wide Web

Quick Start

Anatomy of an HTML Document

Text Basics

Rules, Images, and Multimedia

Links and Webs

Formatted Lists

Cascading Style Sheets

Forms

Tables

Frames

Executable Content Dynamic Documents

Mobile Devices

XML

XHTML

Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

HTML Grammar

HTML/XHTML Tag Quick Reference

Cascading Style Sheet Properties Quick Reference

The HTML 4.01 DTD

The XHTML 1.0 DTD

Character Entities

Color Names and Values

Netscape Layout Extensions

Index

Reviewed by: JimCrum

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