HTML: The Definitive Guide

Amazon.com 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 excellent 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

Product Description:
Updated for XHTML, the fourth edition of our popular HTML guideis fullof examples, sample code, and practical hands-on advicefor creating truly effective web pages and mastering advanced features.Web authors learn how to insert images and othermultimedia elements, create useful links and searchable documents,use extensions, design great forms, and much more.This complete guide describes basic syntax and semantics and showshow to create beautiful, informative, and dynamic web documents.The authors cover every element of the currently accepted version of the language and explain how each element works and interacts with all the other elements. They've also included a style guide that shows how best to use HTML/XHTML to accomplish a variety of tasks, from simple online documentation to complex presentations.

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - If you touch HTML in any way, this book is worth your time and money
I learned HTML in 1994 from a two-page web tutorial -and back then, that was pretty much all there was to know.Well, HTML itself has changed quite a bit in the past 15 years, and I finally decided to break down and take a crack at seriously learning all the new stuff (to me, "div"s and "iframe"s were new).Overall, I'm glad I decide to learn from the O'Reilly book (of course, O'Reilly's never steered me wrong).

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Rating: - Beware of the Edition
Amazon is mixing reviews from different editions of this book. It's a fine book, but editions 5 and older are certainly dated. While most of the information in the 5th edition may be factually correct, there's a confusing mix of deprecated (obsolete) and standard features - plus many references to outdated browsers. If you're trying to write compliant XHTML buy the latest edition or look for another more recent book.
Rating: - Not good as a reference at all
I don't know why some people seem to think this book is good when it is relatively useless as a reference. The index is abysmal - for example, if you want to quickly see what a particular tag does it is a fishing expedition to simply find it. Try looking up "meta", for example - it's not in the index at all. Nor is anything about the various "headers" one can use. There is no entry in the index about "Location" headers, used to redirect to other URLs, for example.

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Rating: - Missing Manuals & Definitive Guides: HTML & XHTML!
Like O'Reilly's Missing Manual series, the Definitie Guide series is great. This title HTML & XHTML is no exception. And, the animals are cute...

If you want to make your pages stand out more, this is the title for you. But, it takes some reading. It's a big book with lots of information. Don't be scared off with this information. Lots of pages means lots of stuff to read and consider.

O'Reilly is a great source for computer related learning. Don't put the possibilities aside...Try ... Read More
Rating: - Another excellent reference...
A real educational experience.Also a well defined book.Be ready to learn when you read this book.