Beginning HTML and CSS

Rob Larsen is a lead front-end engineer with deep technical knowledge and more than a decade of hands-on experience. Rob has developed HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for clients including Samsung, Adidas, Reebok, and Philips and is an active technology author and speaker.Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that guides you through all the techniques involved.

• Introduction xxxiiiChapter 1: Structuring Documents for the Web 1A Web of Structured Documents 1Introducing HTML5 2Attribute Groups 9Core Elements 13Basic Text Formatting 17Understanding Block and Inline Elements 24Grouping Content 25Working with Lists 30Summary 35Chapter 2: Fine-tuning Your Text 39Elements That Describe Text-Level Semantics 39Editing Text 49Using Character Entities for Special Characters 51Comments 51Summary 52Chapter 3: Links and Navigation 55Basic Links 56Understanding Directories and Directory Structures 60Understanding URLs 61Creating In-Page Links with the Element 65Advanced E-mail Links 74Summary 75Chapter 4: Images, Audio, and Video 79Adding Images Using the Element 80Using Images as Links 84Choosing the Right Image Format 85Adding Flash, Video, and Audio to Your Web Pages 95Summary 106Chapter 5: Tables 111Introducing Tables 111Adding a Caption to a Table 122Grouping Sections of a Table 123Nested Tables 129Accessible Tables 130Summary 135Chapter 6: Forms 139Introducing Forms 140Creating a Form with the Element 143 Form Controls 145Creating a Contact Form 172Creating Labels for Controls and the Element 174Structuring Your Forms with and Elements 176 Focus 177Disabled and Read-Only Controls 181Sending Form Data to the Server 183Creating More Usable Form Fields 185Summary 187Chapter 7: Cascading Style Sheets 191Introducing CSS 192Where You Can Add CSS Rules 197CSS Properties 201Controlling Text 203Text Formatting 210Text Pseudo-Classes 220Styling Text 221Selectors 224Lengths 231Introducing the Box Model 233Creating a Style Sheet for Code 248Summary 252Chapter 8: More Cascading Style Sheets 257Links 258Backgrounds 259Lists 267Tables 271Outlines 280The :focus and :active Pseudo-Classes 282Generated Content 283Miscellaneous Properties 288Additional Rules 291Positioning and Layout with CSS 293Summary 308Chapter 9: Rounded Corners, Animations, Custom Fonts, and More with Css3 311The Modular Approach of CSS 3 312Mature CSS3 Modules 312New and In-Development Modules 326Summary 336Chapter 10: Learning Javascript 339What Is Programming About? 340How to Add a Script to Your Pages 343Create an External JavaScript 345The Document Object Model 346Starting to Program with JavaScript 347Variables 349Operators 351Functions 354Conditional Statements 357Looping 360Events 363Built-in Objects 364Writing JavaScript 377Summary 380Chapter 11: Working with Jquery 383Why jQuery? 384Adding jQuery to Your Page 384jQuery Basics 386jQuery and the DOM 387Managing Events with jQuery 397Summary 403Chapter 12: JQuery: Beyond the Basics 407Ajax with jQuery 407jQuery UI 420Summary 433Chapter 13: Checklists 437Search Engine Optimization Checklist 437Accessibility Checklist 441Appendix A: Answers to Exercises 447Chapter 1 447Chapter 2 448Chapter 3 449Chapter 4 451Chapter 5 454Chapter 6 455Chapter 7 458Chapter 8 463Chapter 9 466Chapter 10 468Chapter 11 470Chapter 12 472Chapter 13 474Appendix B: Html Element Reference 475Appendix C: CSS Properties 515Font Properties 515Text Properties 518Color and Background Properties 521Border Properties 523Dimensions 525Margin Properties 528Padding Properties 528List Properties 529Positioning Properties 531Outline Properties 534Table Properties 535Classification Properties 537Internationalization Properties 538Selected CSS3 Properties 539Lengths 548Appendix D: Color Names and Values 551Using Hex Codes to Specify Colors 551Understanding Hex Codes 553Using Color Names to Specify Colors 554Color Name and Number Reference 555Appendix E: Character Encodings 561Appendix F: Special Characters 565Character Entity References for ISO 8859-1 Characters 566Character Entity References for Symbols, Mathematical Symbols, and Greek Letters 570Character Entity References for Markup-Significant and Internationalization Characters 575Appendix G: Language Codes 577Appendix H: Mime Media Types 583Text 584Image 585Multipart 586Audio 586Video 588Message 589Model 590Application 590Appendix I: Changes Between Html4 and Html5 595New Elements 595New Element Types 596New Attributes 597Global Attributes 598Changed Attributes 598Obsolete Elements 600Obsolete Attributes 600At-Risk Elements 602Index 603

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