HTML, XHTML & CSS For Dummies, 7th Edition

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About the Authors
Ed Tittel is a freelance writer, consultant, and occasional expert legal witness
on Web technologies who works at home near beautiful Austin, Texas. Ed
has written for the trade press since 1986 and has worked on more than 140
books. Ed has worked on many other titles for Wiley, too, including Windows
Server 2008 For Dummies, XML For Dummies, and Networking with NetWare For
Dummies. Lately, he’s worked on various For Dummies custom titles, includ-
ing booklets on clustered computing, mobile backhaul, XBRL Markup, and
carrier Ethernet.
Ed blogs, provides expert Q&A, and writes for several TechTarget.com Web
sites, such as SearchNetworking.com and SearchWindows.com. He also
writes for ITExpertVoice, Tom’s Hardware, Tom’s Guide, and more. When
he’s not busy working, Ed likes to travel, shoot pool, and spend time with his
family. He also loves to spend time in the kitchen cooking like mad, or sous-
cheffi n’ for his cuisine-crazy wife, Dina. Contact Ed by e-mail at etittel@
yahoo.com.
Jeff Noble somehow manages to juggle being a principal user designer at
a global software company, CA Technologies, associate editor of UItrends.
com (a blog about the good, the bad, and the ugly of user interface design),
and owner of Conquest Media (www.conquestmedia.com), a small Web
and application design company in Austin, Texas. Jeff has more than twelve
years of design experience and specializes in all aspects of Web sites and
enterprise software applications (designing, building, optimizing, explain-
ing, and so on). In addition to this title, he’s handled technical editing on six
other For Dummies Web design and programming titles for Wiley. In what
little spare time he has away from the computer, Jeff enjoys childish activi-
ties like eating unhealthy amounts of candy and breaking things, as well as
relaxing hobbies like hiking, traveling, and gardening. Jeff is available for
Web site and enterprise application consulting. You can contact him by
e-mail at [email protected].
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Authors’ Acknowledgments
Wow! It’s hard to believe we’ve hit the “lucky 13th edition” for HTML For
Dummies. Of all the books I’ve worked on, this one’s covered more time and
versions than the rest. So thanks again readers, for keeping this book going
strong. We’d also like to thank our readers and the Wiley editors for provid-
ing welcome feedback to drive continuing improvement of this book. Don’t
stop now — keep telling us what you want. Especially, tell us what you liked
and didn’t like about this second full-color edition.
Let me also thank some people from previous editions, including J. Michael
Stewart, Natanya Anderson, Dori Smith, Tom Negrino, Mary Burmeister,
Brock Kyle, Chelsea Valentine, Dawn Davidson, and Kim Lindros. And, for the
second time, I’m indebted to my co-author and friend, Jeff Noble, for infus-
ing insight and enthusiasm. I am grateful for your ideas, your hard work, and
your experience in reaching budding Web experts. Thanks, too, to Mary Kyle
Inks, who expertly project-managed this effort.
At Wiley, I must thank Bob Woerner and Jean Nelson for their outstanding
efforts, and Brian Walls, Teresa Artman, and Christopher McGee for their
efforts on design, layout, content, and coverage. A special shout-out to the
friendly folks in Composition Services for artful page layouts, and for keeping
all the color-coded elements straight.
Thanks to my lovely wife, Dina Kutueva-Tittel, and inquisitive son, Gregory,
for putting up with my sometimes whacky and intense schedule. I’m not
always as easy to live with as I could be, but hopefully, I’ll improve with time
and effort. Also, thanks to my Dad, Al Tittel, for all he’s done for my family
and me, and for dropping in more frequently. I hope you’re around to see
our 14th edition come to print! Finally, profound thanks and remembrances
to Cecilia Katherine Kociolek Tittel (4/3/1919–9/11/2009). Thanks, Mom, for
encouraging my love of words and writing: I still miss you every day.
Ed Tittel
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I’d like to thank my girlfriend, Dr. Alison Marr, for generally putting up with
me and giving me time and space to work on titles like this. I’d like note that
according to my calculations, Alison is approximately 15 times smarter than I
am but somehow still allows me to pretend that I’m right all the time. I know
she has tried to explain magic graphs at least a dozen times to me but I still
don’t get it — evidently it’s not about warlocks and magical fairies. Special
thanks to Ida F. Orengo, M.D. and the rest of the staff from the Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Without all of you, there is a decent chance I
wouldn’t even be alive now.
Thanks to Ed Tittel for allowing me to sit in again and handle even more
responsibility with this latest edition. This title has been one of the biggest
accomplishments in my life and has opened up incredible opportunities to
me and I thank you sincerely. To Slade Deliberto, it seems like only yesterday
you taught me how to design my fi rst Web site. Technology and software
changes over time, but a lot of what I’ve accomplished so far professionally
goes all the way back to your initial design and Photoshop lessons more than
twelve years ago.
Big thanks to my boss and mentor Russell Wilson, you’ve always supported
and believed in me and without a doubt have made me a better designer and
a better person. I don’t say it as much as I should, I owe you big time and I
appreciate everything you have done for me — there, you have it in writing.
To CSS master Eric Meyer, thanks for agreeing to write the Foreword to this
book. I’ve learned a lot from your volume of work over the years and having
my name noted on a book with yours is a huge honor. I’d also like to dedicate
this book in memory of my friend Zach Beatty who was tragically killed by a
drunk driver in 1997. Please don’t drink and drive, you might kill someone a
lot cooler than you.
Jeff Noble
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Contents at a Glance
Foreword ....................................................................xix
Introduction ................................................................ 1
Part I: Getting to Know (X)HTML and CSS ................... 7
Chapter 1: The Least You Need to Know about HTML, CSS, and the Web.................9
Chapter 2: Creating and Viewing a Web Page ..............................................................31
Chapter 3: Proper Planning Prevents Poor Page Performance..................................43
Part II: Formatting Web Pages with (X)HTML ............ 61
Chapter 4: Creating (X)HTML Document Structure ....................................................63
Chapter 5: Text and Lists ................................................................................................73
Chapter 6: Linking to Online Resources .......................................................................91
Chapter 7: Finding and Using Images ..........................................................................105
Part III: Taking Precise Control over
Web Pages and Styles .............................................. 119
Chapter 8: Deprecated (X)HTML Markup ...................................................................121
Chapter 9: Introducing Cascading Style Sheets .........................................................129
Chapter 10: Using Cascading Style Sheets ..................................................................147
Chapter 11: Getting Creative with Colors and Fonts .................................................169
Part IV: Scripting and (X)HTML .............................. 189
Chapter 12: Top 20 CSS Properties..............................................................................191
Chapter 13: Scripting Web Pages .................................................................................211
Chapter 14: Working with Forms .................................................................................221
Chapter 15: Bring the Best of the Web to Your Web Site .........................................251
Chapter 16: Fun with Client-Side Scripts.....................................................................265
Chapter 17: Content Management Systems ................................................................279
Part V: The Future of (X)HTML ................................ 291
Chapter 18: Mobile Web Design ...................................................................................293
Chapter 19: Party On with HTML5 ..............................................................................305
Chapter 20: CSS3 ............................................................................................................325
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Part VI: The Part of Tens .......................................... 343
Chapter 21: Ten HTML Do’s and Don’ts ......................................................................345
Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Exterminate Web Bugs ......................................................353
Chapter 23: Ten Cool HTML Tools and Technologies ..............................................361
Appendix A: Twitter Supporters ................................. 373
Index ...................................................................... 377
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