HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible 5th Edition -- About the Author -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Brief History of the Internet and the World Wide Web -- What This Book Covers -- User Agent (Browser) Coverage -- Web 2.0 -- Terminology -- Who Should Read This Book? -- This Is Not a Web Design Book -- What Is Contained in This Book? -- How to Use This Book -- Conventions and Features -- Companion Website -- Part I: Creating Content with HTML -- Chapter 1: What Is a Markup Language? -- What Are We Doing Here? -- Understanding Hypertext -- Understanding Markup Instructions -- Understanding Markup Language -- Summary -- Chapter 2: HTML Values and Units -- Basic Tag Attribute Format -- Common Attributes -- Text and Comments -- Uniform Resource Indicators -- Language and International Options -- Summary -- Chapter 3: What Goes into a Web Document? -- Specifying Document Type -- Overall Document Structure: HTML, Head, and Body -- Style Definitions -- Block Elements: Markup for Paragraphs and Other Blocks of Content -- Inline Elements: Markup for Characters -- Special Characters (Entities) -- Organizational Elements -- Linking to Other Pages -- Images -- Comments -- Scripts -- Putting It All Together -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The HEAD Elements -- Specifying the Document Title -- Providing Information to Search Engines -- Setting the Default Path -- Script Sections -- Style Sections -- Specifying Profiles -- Background Color and Background Images -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Text Structuring Essentials -- Formatting Paragraphs -- Line Breaks -- Divisions -- Rules -- Block Quotes -- Preformatted Text -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Character Formatting Essentials -- Methods of Text Control -- Bold and Italic Text -- Use of Emphasis Instead of Italics -- Monospace (Typewriter) Fonts -- Superscripts and Subscripts.

Abbreviations -- Marking Editorial Insertions and Deletions -- Grouping Inline Elements with the Span Tag -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Lists -- Understanding Lists -- Ordered (Numbered) Lists -- Unordered (Bulleted) Lists -- Definition Lists -- Nested Lists -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Links -- What's in a Link? -- Linking to a Web Page -- Absolute versus Relative Links -- Link Targets -- Link Titles -- Keyboard Shortcuts and Tab Order -- Creating an Anchor -- Choosing Link Colors -- Link Destination Details -- The Link Tag -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Tables -- Parts of an HTML Table -- Table Width and Alignment -- Cell Spacing and Padding -- Borders and Rules -- Rows -- Cells -- Table Captions -- Row Groups - Header, Body, and Footer -- Background Colors -- Spanning Columns and Rows -- Grouping Columns -- Formatting with Tables -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Frames -- Frames Overview -- Framesets and Frame Documents -- Targeting Links to Frames -- Nested Framesets -- Inline Frames -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Forms -- Understanding Forms -- Inserting a Form -- Field Labels -- Text Input Boxes -- Password Input Boxes -- Radio Buttons -- Check Boxes -- List Boxes -- Large Text Input -- Hidden Fields -- Buttons -- Images -- File Fields -- Submit and Reset Buttons -- Tab Order and Keyboard Shortcuts -- Preventing Changes -- Fieldsets and Legends -- Using Events with Forms -- Form Scripts and Script Services -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Colors and Images -- Web Color Basics -- Other Means to Specify Colors -- The Evolution of Color on the Web -- Using Proper Means to Specify Colors -- Image Formats for the Web -- Creating Graphics -- Inserting an Image -- Image Alignment -- Specifying Text to Display for Nongraphical Browsers -- Sizing an Image -- Image Borders -- Image Maps -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Multimedia -- Animated Images.

Animation and Video Formats, Plug-ins, and Players -- Embedding Media via the Object Tag -- Embedding a Windows Media Player Using -- Embedding YouTube Videos -- Adding Sound to Web Pages -- Creating Multimedia Files -- A Final Word About Multimedia -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Special Characters -- Understanding Character Encodings -- Special Characters -- En and Em Spaces and Dashes -- Copyright and Trademark Symbols -- Currency Symbols -- ''Real'' Quotation Marks -- Arrows -- Accented Characters -- Greek and Mathematical Characters -- Other Useful Entities -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Internationalization and Localization -- Internationalization and Localization -- Translating Your Web Site -- Understanding Unicode -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Scripts -- Client-Side versus Server-Side Scripting -- Setting the Default Scripting Language -- Including a Script -- Calling an External Script -- Triggering Scripts with Events -- Hiding Scripts from Older Browsers -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Dynamic HTML -- The Need for DHTML -- How DHTML Works -- The Document Object Model -- The JavaScript DOM -- Using Event Handlers -- Accessing an Element by Its ID -- Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues -- DHTML Examples -- Form Automation: Check boxes -- Summary -- Chapter 18: The Future of HTML: HTML5 -- More Publishing and Layout Features -- Accessible Multimedia -- Changes: Elements and Attributes -- Summary -- Part II: HTML Tools and Variants -- Chapter 19: Web Development Software -- Text-Oriented Editors -- WYSIWYG HTML Editors -- Other Tools -- Summary -- Chapter 20: Publishing Your Site -- Introducing FTP -- FTP Clients -- Notable FTP Clients -- Principles of Web Server File Organization -- Summary -- Chapter 21: An Introduction To XML -- XML Basics -- XML Syntax -- Working with Document Type Definitions -- Introducing XML Schemas -- Working with Schemas.

Using XML -- Summary -- Chapter 22: Creating Mobile Documents -- Understanding the Evolution of the Mobile Web -- XHTML Basic 1.1 -- Mobile Web Development Tools -- Summary -- Chapter 23: Tidying and Validating Your Documents -- Tidying Your HTML Code -- Validating Your Code -- Additional Testing and Validation -- Summary -- Chapter 24: HTML Tips and Tricks -- Preloading Images -- Controlling Text Breaks in Table Cells -- Stretching Title Bars -- Simulating Newspaper Columns -- Including Image Size for Fast Display -- Protecting E-mail Addresses -- Automating Forms -- Modifying the User Agent Environment -- Summary -- Part III: Controlling Presentation with CSS -- Chapter 25: CSS Basics -- The Purpose of Styles -- Styles and HTML -- CSS Levels 1, 2, and 3 -- Defining Styles -- Cascading Styles -- Summary -- Chapter 26: Style Definitions -- The Style Definition Format -- Understanding Selectors -- Understanding Style Inheritance -- Using Pseudo-Classes -- Pseudo-Elements -- Shorthand Expressions -- Summary -- Chapter 27: CSS Values and Units -- General Property Value Rules -- Property Value Metrics -- Summary -- Chapter 28: CSS Inheritance and Cascade -- Inheritance -- Cascade -- Specificity -- Summary -- Chapter 29: Font Properties -- Understanding Fonts -- Font Types -- Font Sizing -- Font Styling -- Line Spacing -- Embedding Fonts in a Document -- Summary -- Chapter 30: Text Formatting -- Aligning Text -- Indenting Text -- Controlling White Space Within Text -- Controlling Letter and Word Spacing -- Specifying Capitalization -- Using Text Decorations -- Autogenerated Text -- Using CSS Table Properties -- Controlling Table Attributes -- Table Layout -- Aligning and Positioning Captions -- Summary -- Chapter 31: CSS Lists -- An Overview of Lists -- CSS Lists - Any Element Will Do -- List Style Type -- Positioning of Markers.

Using Images as List Markers -- Summary -- Chapter 32: Padding, Margins, and Borders -- The CSS Box Formatting Model -- Element Padding -- Element Borders -- Element Margins -- Dynamic Outlines -- Summary -- Chapter 33: Colors and Backgrounds -- Element Colors -- Background Images -- Summary -- Chapter 34: CSS Layouts -- Understanding CSS Positioning -- Specifying the Element Position -- Floating Elements to the Left or Right -- Defining an Element's Width and Height -- Stacking Elements in Layers -- Controlling Element Visibility -- Summary -- Chapter 35: Pseudo-Elements and Generated Content -- The Content Property -- Pseudo-Elements -- Quotation Marks -- Numbering Elements Automatically -- Summary -- Chapter 36: Dynamic HTML with CSS -- Accessing CSS Properties with JavaScript -- Useful CSS Manipulation -- Summary -- Chapter 37: Media Styles and Defining Documents for Printing -- Understanding CSS Media Types -- Setting Up Documents for Printing -- Creating a Multimedia Document -- Summary -- Chapter 38: The Future of CSS: CSS3 -- Just Better -- Modularity -- Using CSS3 Properties Today -- More Control over Selections -- Revisiting the Brass Ring of CSS: Rounded Corners -- Summary -- Part IV: Additional CSS Tools -- Chapter 39: User Interface Styles -- Changing the Cursor -- User Interface Colors -- User Interface Fonts -- Summary -- Chapter 40: Testing and Validating CSS -- Testing Syntax As You Create Styles -- A Word About Formatting -- Validating CSS -- Firefox Add-ons for CSS Editing -- Summary -- Chapter 41: CSS Tips and Tricks -- Hanging Indents -- Expanding Buttons -- Pull Quotes -- Tabbed Menus -- Summary -- Appendix A: XHTML Element Quick Reference -- Appendix B: HTML Special Characters Quick Reference -- Appandix D: CSS 2.1 Selectors Quick Reference -- Appendix E: Pseudo-Elements and Pseudo-Classes Quick Reference -- Index.