HTML : The Complete Reference

Name: HTML : The Complete Reference
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ISBN: 9780072119770

ISBN-10: 0072119772

ISBN-13: 9780072119770

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: Thomas A. Powell

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For those who want to learn HTML and how to use it, this book is one half theory/tutorial with examples and details on making Web pages interactive. The other half is solid reference.

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List price: $39.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1130
Size: 7.28" wide x 9.09" long x 2.36" tall
Weight: 4.158
Language: English

Thomas Powell (San Diego, CA) is the founder and principal of Powell Internet Consulting, Inc. a San Diego-based web design firm that specializes in Web research and development and site construction for high-tech companies. He developed the Web Design Certificate Program at UCSD, teaches web publishing classes and serves as senior instructor and faculty advisor in the University's Information Technology Program. He holds a Bachelor of Science from UCLA and a Master's degree in Computer Science from UCSD. Powell is the author of three books: HTML: The Complete Reference and HTML Programmer's Reference for Osborne and Web Site Engineering: Beyond Web Page Design for Prentice Hall.

Acknowledgments	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Web Basics
Introduction to HTML	p. 3
Basic HTML Concepts	p. 4
HTML: A Structured Language	p. 7
Overview of HTML Markup	p. 11
Logical and Physical HTML	p. 13
What HTML Is Not	p. 15
Summary	p. 17
Web Publishing	p. 19
What Is Good Web Design?	p. 20
The Process of Web Publishing	p. 23
Determining Purpose	p. 24
Who Is the Audience?	p. 25
Who Will Pay for It?	p. 26
Defining Goals	p. 27
Defining Scope	p. 28
Organization of Information	p. 29
Determining the Site Plan	p. 36
Implementation	p. 37
Gathering and Creating the Content	p. 37
Visual Design	p. 38
Technology Design	p. 38
Producing the HTML	p. 39
Testing	p. 42
Maintenance	p. 44
The Phases of Web Site Development	p. 45
HTML's Role in the Web	p. 45
Historical Roots of HTML	p. 46
Mosaic: The Web Community Changes	p. 47
The Rise of Netscape	p. 48
The Market Matures: Microsoft Enters	p. 49
From Pages to Programs	p. 49
Issues Facing HTML and the Web	p. 50
Summary	p. 51
Introduction to Common HTML	p. 53
HTML Overview	p. 54
HTML Rules and Guidelines	p. 55
The Structure of HTML Documents	p. 59
Document Types	p. 60
The [HTML] Element	p. 61
The [HEAD] Element	p. 62
The [TITLE] Element	p. 63
The [BODY] Element	p. 66
HTML Elements	p. 66
Core Attributes	p. 66
Language Attributes	p. 68
Core Events	p. 68
Block-Level Elements	p. 69
Text-Level Elements	p. 94
Character Entities	p. 100
Summary	p. 103
Links and Addressing	p. 105
Linking Basics	p. 106
What Are URLs?	p. 109
Basic Concepts	p. 110
Formula for a URL	p. 118
Relative URLs	p. 127
Linking in HTML	p. 129
The Anchor Element	p. 129
Link Renderings	p. 132
Anchor Attributes	p. 133
Using the NAME Attribute	p. 134
TITLE Attributes for Anchors	p. 136
Accelerator Keys	p. 138
TABINDEX Attribute	p. 139
TARGET Attribute	p. 139
Anchors and Link Relationships	p. 140
Scripting and Anchors	p. 140
Images and Anchors	p. 141
Image Maps	p. 142
Server-Side Image Maps	p. 143
Client-Side Image Maps	p. 144
Image Map Attributes	p. 149
Semantic Linking with the [LINK] Element	p. 154
Link Relationships in Detail	p. 154
WebTV Support for [LINK]	p. 160
[LINK] and Style Sheets	p. 160
Meta-Information	p. 161
[META] and the NAME Attribute	p. 162
META and HTTP-EQUIP	p. 163
Client-Pull	p. 164
Site Filtering	p. 164
Linking Issues	p. 168
Beyond Location	p. 170
Problems with URLs	p. 170
URNs, URCs, and URIs	p. 171
New URL Forms	p. 173
Summary	p. 174
HTML and Images	p. 175
The Role of Images on the Web	p. 176
Image Preliminaries	p. 177
GIF Images	p. 179
JPEG Images	p. 186
PNG Images	p. 187
Other Useful Image Formats	p. 187
Image Downloading Issues	p. 187
Obtaining Images	p. 189
HTML Image Basics	p. 191
ALT Attribute	p. 192
Image Alignment	p. 196
HSPACE and VSPACE	p. 200
Extensions to [BR]	p. 202
HEIGHT and WIDTH	p. 205
LOWSRC	p. 206
Images as Buttons	p. 207
Image Maps	p. 209
Server-Side Image Maps	p. 209
Client-Side Image Maps	p. 210
Advanced Image Considerations: Scripting, Style, and [OBJECT]	p. 211
Summary	p. 212
Presentation and Layout
Introduction to Layout: Backgrounds, Colors, and Text	p. 215
Design Requirements	p. 216
HTML Approach to Web Design	p. 217
Text Alignment with Traditional HTML Elements	p. 217
The [CENTER] Element	p. 219
Alignment Attributes	p. 219
Word Hinting with [NOBR] and [WBR]	p. 219
Alignment with Images	p. 220
Invisible Images and Layout	p. 221
The [SPACER] Element	p. 222
The [MULTICOL] Element	p. 224
Fonts	p. 227
Document-Wide Font Settings	p. 229
Downloadable Fonts	p. 230
Netscape's Dynamic Fonts	p. 231
Microsoft's Dynamic Fonts	p. 232
Colors in HTML	p. 233
Document-Wide Color Attributes for [BODY]	p. 235
Background Images	p. 237
Internet Explorer Background Attributes	p. 240
Summary	p. 241
Layout with Tables	p. 243
Introduction to Tables	p. 244
Simple Tables	p. 244
ROWSPAN and COLSPAN	p. 246
Tables for Layout	p. 249
Tables in HTML 4	p. 256
[TABLE] Elements	p. 259
Databinding: Tables Generated from a Data Source	p. 259
Summary	p. 263
Advanced Layout: Frames and Layers	p. 265
Frames	p. 266
Overview of Frames	p. 267
Simple Frame Example	p. 267
Frame Targeting	p. 272
Floating Frames	p. 275
Using Frames	p. 276
Frame Problems	p. 277
Layers	p. 278
Positioned Layers	p. 279
Inflow Layers	p. 281
Interesting Uses of Layers	p. 283
Programming Layers	p. 286
Summary	p. 287
HTML and Other Media Types	p. 289
HTML and Binary Objects	p. 290
Plug-Ins and [EMBED]	p. 290
ActiveX Controls and [OBJECT]	p. 292
Java Applets	p. 293
Media-Like Element: [MARQUEE]	p. 295
Audio Support in Browsers	p. 297
Digital Sound Basics	p. 298
Audio File Formats and Compression	p. 298
Downloading and Playing Audio	p. 298
Video Support	p. 308
Digital Video Basics	p. 309
Video File Formats and Compression	p. 309
Waiting for Video	p. 309
Other Video Formats	p. 322
Other Binary Formats	p. 322
Flash	p. 323
Acrobat	p. 325
Summary	p. 326
Style Sheets	p. 327
The Rise of Style	p. 328
Style Sheet Basics	p. 329
Adding Style to a Document	p. 330
Style Sheet Example	p. 342
Style Sheet Properties	p. 344
Font Properties	p. 344
Color and Background Properties	p. 351
Text Properties	p. 356
Box Properties	p. 361
Classification Properties	p. 374
Positioning with Style Sheets	p. 378
Positioning and Sizing of Regions	p. 379
CSS2: New Feature Summary	p. 386
Media Types	p. 386
User Interface Changes	p. 389
Microsoft-Specific Style Sheet Properties	p. 397
Filters	p. 397
Summary	p. 404
Programming and HTML
Basic Interactivity and HTML: Forms	p. 407
How Are Forms Used?	p. 408
Form Preliminaries	p. 409
The [FORM] Element	p. 410
ACTION Attribute	p. 410
METHOD Attribute	p. 411
NAME Attribute	p. 413
ENCTYPE Attribute	p. 414
Simple [FORM] Syntax	p. 415
Complete [FORM] Syntax	p. 416
Form Controls	p. 419
Text Controls	p. 419
Additional [INPUT] Types	p. 433
New and Emerging Form Elements	p. 438
[BUTTON] Element	p. 438
Labels	p. 439
[FIELDSET]	p. 439
Form Accessibility Enhancements	p. 441
Miscellaneous HTML 4 Form Attributes	p. 443
Form Presentation	p. 443
Special Form Considerations for WebTV	p. 448
Forms and Events	p. 448
Summary	p. 451
Introduction to Server-Side Programming	p. 453
Overview of Client/Server Programming on the Web	p. 454
Server-Side Programming	p. 457
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)	p. 458
CGI Output	p. 461
Passing Information to a CGI Program: Environment Variables	p. 464
Passing Information to a CGI Program: Form Data	p. 468
Writing CGI Programs	p. 470
Buying or Borrowing CGI Programs	p. 471
NSAPI/ISAPI	p. 472
Parsed HTML Solutions: Server-Side Scripting	p. 472
Server-Side Includes (SSIs)	p. 473
ColdFusion	p. 479
Using CFML	p. 479
CFML Summary	p. 488
Active Server Pages (ASP)	p. 490
Creating ASP Pages	p. 491
Summary	p. 496
Introduction to Scripting and HTML	p. 497
The Purpose of Scripting	p. 498
JavaScript	p. 499
VBScript	p. 502
Including Scripts in an HTML Document	p. 504
Specifying the Scripting Language	p. 508
External Scripts	p. 509
Scripting and Non-Script-Aware Browsers	p. 510
[NOSCRIPT]	p. 511
Script Events and HTML	p. 512
Extended Event Models	p. 518
Form Validation in JavaScript	p. 529
Summary	p. 533
Dynamic HTML (DHTML)	p. 535
Dynamic HTML and the Document Object Model	p. 536
Object Models	p. 539
HTML and Scripting Access	p. 542
Rollover Buttons	p. 547
Style Sheet-Based Rollovers	p. 549
Moving Objects with DHTML	p. 551
Ramifications of DHTML	p. 557
Summary	p. 558
Client-Side Programming and HTML	p. 559
Scripting, Programming, and Objects	p. 560
Plug-Ins	p. 561
[EMBED] Syntax	p. 563
Java Applets	p. 569
[APPLET] Syntax	p. 572
Java and Scripting	p. 574
Using Java Without Programming	p. 577
ActiveX Controls	p. 578
Adding Controls to Web Pages	p. 580
Cross-Platform Support with Plug-Ins and ActiveX Controls	p. 588
The Future of [OBJECT]	p. 590
Summary	p. 590
Site Delivery
Putting It All Together: Delivering the Web Site	p. 595
Publishing the Site	p. 596
Outsourcing Web Hosting	p. 596
Virtual Hosting	p. 599
Running a Local Web Server	p. 600
Selecting a Web Server	p. 600
How Web Servers Work	p. 604
HTTP	p. 605
MIME	p. 621
Speed and State Problems with HTTP	p. 622
The Realities of Publishing and Maintaining a Web Site	p. 623
Summary	p. 623
New Horizons
XML: Beyond HTML	p. 627
Relationship Among HTML, SGML, and XML	p. 628
Basic XML	p. 630
Valid Documents	p. 632
Ways to Use XML	p. 638
XML for Data Files	p. 638
Embedding XML into HTML Documents	p. 640
Converting XML to HTML for Display	p. 643
Displaying XML Documents by Using CSS and XSL	p. 645
Rewriting HTML as XML	p. 649
Predicting the Future of XML	p. 651
Summary	p. 652
Future Directions	p. 653
Presentation Issues	p. 654
Programming Issues	p. 655
Structure	p. 658
Web-Wide Problems	p. 661
Application-Specific Presentation	p. 663
What Is the Future of HTML?	p. 664
Summary	p. 665
Appendixes
HTML Element Reference	p. 669
Core Attributes Reference	p. 670
CLASS	p. 670
ID	p. 670
STYLE	p. 671
TITLE	p. 671
Language Reference	p. 672
LANG	p. 672
DIR	p. 672
Events Reference	p. 672
Extended Events	p. 672
HTML Element Reference	p. 681
[!--...--] (Comment)	p. 681
[!DOCTYPE] (Document Type Definition)	p. 682
[A] (Anchor)	p. 683
[ABBR] (Abbreviation)	p. 688
[ACRONYM] (Acronym)	p. 689
[ADDRESS] (Address)	p. 691
[APPLET] (Java Applet)	p. 693
[AREA] (Image Map Area)	p. 696
[AUDIOSCOPE] (Sound Amplitude Display)	p. 700
[B] (Bold)	p. 701
[BASE] (Base URL)	p. 703
[BASEFONT] (Base Font)	p. 704
[BDO] (Bidirectional Override)	p. 706
[BGSOUND] (Background Sound)	p. 707
[BIG] (Big Font)	p. 708
[BLACKFACE] (Blackface Font)	p. 710
[BLINK] (Blinking Text Display)	p. 710
[BLOCKQUOTE] (Block Quote)	p. 711
[BODY] (Document Body)	p. 713
[BQ] (Block Quote)	p. 717
[BR] (Line Break)	p. 718
[BUTTON] (Form Button)	p. 719
[CAPTION] (Figure or Table Caption)	p. 722
[CENTER] (Center Alignment)	p. 725
[CITE] (Citation)	p. 726
[CODE] (Code Listing)	p. 728
[COL] (Column)	p. 730
[COLGROUP] (Column Group)	p. 732
[COMMENT] (Comment Information)	p. 734
[DD] (Definition in a Definition List)	p. 735
[DEL] (Deleted Text)	p. 737
[DFN] (Defining Instance of a Term)	p. 739
[DIR] (Directory List)	p. 741
[DIV] (Division)	p. 743
[DL] (Definition List)	p. 746
[DT] (Term in a Definition List)	p. 748
[EM] (Emphasis)	p. 750
[EMBED] (Embedded Object)	p. 752
[FIELDSET] (Form Field Set)	p. 755
[FN] (Footnote)	p. 757
[FONT] (Font Definition)	p. 758
[FORM] (Form for User Input)	p. 760
[FRAME] (Window Region)	p. 763
[FRAMESET] (Frameset Definition)	p. 766
[H1] Through [H6] (Headings)	p. 770
[HEAD] (Document Head)	p. 772
[HR] (Horizontal Rule)	p. 774
[HTML] (HTML Document)	p. 776
[I] (Italic)	p. 777
[IFRAME] (Floating Frame)	p. 779
[ILAYER] (Inflow Layer)	p. 782
[IMG] (Image)	p. 784
[INPUT] (Input Form Control)	p. 789
[INS] (Inserted Text)	p. 794
[ISINDEX] (Index Prompt)	p. 797
[KBD] (Keyboard Input)	p. 799
[LABEL] (Form Control Label)	p. 800
[LAYER] (Content Layers)	p. 803
[LEGEND] (Field Legend)	p. 806
[LI] (List Item)	p. 808
[LINK] (Link to External Files or Set Relationships)	p. 810
[LISTING] (Code Listing)	p. 814
[MAP] (Client-Side Image Map)	p. 815
[MARQUEE] (Marquee Display)	p. 817
[MENU] (Menu List)	p. 821
[META] (Meta-Information)	p. 823
[MULTICOL] (Multiple Column Text)	p. 825
[NOBR] (No Breaks)	p. 827
[NOEMBED] (No Embedded Media Support)	p. 828
[NOFRAMES] (No Frame Support Content)	p. 829
[NOSCRIPT] (No Script Support Content)	p. 830
[OBJECT] (Embedded Object)	p. 832
[OL] (Ordered List)	p. 837
[OPTGROUP] (Option Grouping)	p. 839
[OPTION] (Option in Selection List)	p. 841
[P] (Paragraph)	p. 843
[PARAM] (Object Parameter)	p. 846
[PLAINTEXT] (Plain Text)	p. 848
[PRE] (Preformatted Text)	p. 850
[Q] (Quote)	p. 852
[S] (Strikethrough)	p. 854
[SAMP] (Sample Text)	p. 855
[SCRIPT] (Scripting)	p. 857
[SELECT] (Selection List)	p. 860
[SMALL] (Small Text)	p. 864
[SPACER] (Extra Space)	p. 866
[SPAN] (Text Span)	p. 867
[STRIKE] (Strikeout Text)	p. 869
[STRONG] (Strong Emphasis)	p. 871
[STYLE] (Style Information)	p. 873
[SUB] (Subscript)	p. 875
[SUP] (Superscript)	p. 877
[TABLE] (Table)	p. 879
[TBODY] (Table Body)	p. 885
[TD] (Table Data)	p. 888
[TEXTAREA] (Multiline Text Input)	p. 893
[TFOOT] (Table Footer)	p. 898
[TH] (Table Header)	p. 900
[THEAD] (Table Header)	p. 905
[TITLE] (Document Title)	p. 908
[TR] (Table Row)	p. 909
[TT] (Teletype Text)	p. 912
[U] (Underline)	p. 914
[UL] (Unordered List)	p. 915
[VAR] (Variable)	p. 918
[WBR] (Word Break)	p. 919
[XML] (XML Data Island)	p. 921
[XMP] (Example)	p. 922
Style Sheet Reference	p. 925
Style Sheet Terms	p. 926
Embedded Styles	p. 926
Inline Styles	p. 927
Linked Styles	p. 927
Imported Styles	p. 927
Selectors	p. 928
Rules	p. 930
Grouping	p. 931
Inheritance	p. 931
Pseudoclasses	p. 931
A:active	p. 931
A:link	p. 932
A:visited	p. 932
Pseudoelements	p. 932
first-letter	p. 932
first-line	p. 933
Miscellaneous	p. 933
/* comments */	p. 933
! Important	p. 934
Fonts	p. 934
font-family	p. 934
font-size	p. 936
font-style	p. 940
font-weight	p. 942
font-variant	p. 943
text-transform	p. 944
text-decoration	p. 946
font	p. 948
Text	p. 948
word-spacing	p. 948
letter-spacing	p. 949
line-height	p. 949
text-align	p. 950
vertical-align	p. 951
text-indent	p. 953
Colors and Backgrounds	p. 954
color	p. 954
background-color	p. 954
background-image	p. 955
background-repeat	p. 956
background-attachment	p. 957
background-position	p. 958
background	p. 961
Layout	p. 966
Margins	p. 966
Borders	p. 968
Padding	p. 976
width	p. 978
height	p. 978
float	p. 979
clear	p. 980
Layers and Positioning	p. 982
position	p. 982
width	p. 984
height	p. 984
clip	p. 984
overflow	p. 984
z-index	p. 985
visibility	p. 986
Classification	p. 987
display	p. 987
white-space	p. 988
list-style-type	p. 989
list-style-image	p. 992
list-style-position	p. 993
list-style	p. 993
Style Sheet Measurement Values	p. 993
%	p. 993
cm	p. 994
em	p. 994
ex (x-height)	p. 994
in	p. 995
mm	p. 995
pc	p. 995
pt	p. 996
px	p. 996
Style Sheet Color Values	p. 996
Named Color Values	p. 996
Six-Digit Hexadecimal Color Values	p. 997
Three-Digit Hexadecimal Color Values	p. 997
RGB Color Values	p. 997
RGB Color Values Using Percentages	p. 998
Special Characters	p. 999
"Standard" HTML Character Entities	p. 1000
HTML 4 Character Entities	p. 1019
Latin Extended-A	p. 1020
Latin Extended-B	p. 1020
Spacing Modifier Letters	p. 1020
General Punctuation	p. 1021
Greek	p. 1022
Letter-Like Symbols	p. 1024
Arrows	p. 1025
Mathematical Operators	p. 1025
Technical Symbols	p. 1027
Geometric Shapes	p. 1027
Miscellaneous Symbols	p. 1027
Fonts	p. 1029
Fonts for Microsoft Platforms and Browsers	p. 1030
Fonts for Apple Macintosh System 7	p. 1032
Fonts for Unix Systems	p. 1032
Color Names and Hexadecimal Codes	p. 1033
Reading a Document Type Definition	p. 1043
Declarations	p. 1044
Element Type Declarations	p. 1044
Attribute List Declarations	p. 1047
SGML Keywords	p. 1047
Parameter Entities	p. 1048
General Entities	p. 1049
Comments	p. 1049
Marked Section Declaration	p. 1050
HTML 4 Transitional DTD	p. 1051
HTML 4 Strict DTD	p. 1077
HTML 4 Frameset DTD	p. 1099
Index	p. 1101
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