HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: VQS

by Castro, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780201696967
• ISBN10: 0201696967
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr

Summary

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Author Biography

Elizabeth Castro has written three bestselling editions of HTML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. She also wrote the bestselling Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, and the Macintosh and Windows versions of the Netscape Communicator 4: Visual QuickStart Guide. She was the technical editor for Peachpit's The Macintosh Bible, Fifth Edition, and she founded Pagina Uno, a publishing house based in Barcelona, Spain.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(290)
HTML and the Web	14	(1)
Users vs. Programmers	15	(2)
Different versions of HTML	17	(1)
Cascading Style Sheets	18	(1)
What is DHTML?	19	(1)
HTML browsers	20	(1)
The HTML VQS Web Site	21	(2)
HTML Building Blocks	23	(8)
Writing HTML	23	(1)
HTML tags	23	(2)
Spacing	25	(1)
Special symbols	26	(1)
URLs	27	(4)
Starting your Web Page	31	(12)
Designing your site	32	(1)
Organizing files	33	(1)
Designating a home page	34	(1)
Creating a new Web page	35	(1)
Looking at your page in a browser	36	(1)
Starting your Web page	37	(1)
Understanding the HEAD and BODY	38	(1)
Creating a title	39	(1)
Organizing the page	40	(1)
Starting a new paragraph	41	(1)
Creating a line break	42	(1)
Text Formatting	43	(14)
Changing the font	44	(1)
Making text bold or italic	45	(1)
Choosing a default size for body text	46	(1)
Changing the text size	47	(1)
Using relative values to change text size	48	(1)
Choosing a default color for text	49	(1)
Changing the text color	50	(1)
Creating superscripts and subscripts	51	(1)
Using a monospaced font	52	(1)
Using preformatted text	53	(1)
Striking out or underlining text	54	(1)
Making text blink	55	(1)
Hiding text (Adding comments)	56	(1)
Creating Images	57	(20)
Making images smaller	60	(2)
Exporting GIF images from Photoshop	62	(2)
Using (mostly) browser safe colors	64	(2)
Converting to browser safe colors	66	(1)
Reducing the number of colors	67	(1)
Creating transparency	68	(2)
Creating fake transparency	70	(1)
Interlacing GIF images	71	(1)
Creating animated GIFs	72	(1)
Creating JPEG images	73	(1)
Blurring images to aid JPEG compression	74	(1)
Creating low resolution images	75	(1)
Creating PNG files	76	(1)
Using Images	77	(14)
Inserting images on a page	78	(1)
Offering alternate text	79	(1)
Specifying size for speedier viewing	80	(1)
Linking icons to external images	81	(1)
Using low resolution images	82	(1)
Wrapping text around images	83	(2)
Stopping text wrap	85	(1)
Adding space around an image	86	(1)
Scaling an image	87	(1)
Aligning images	88	(1)
Using a banner	89	(1)
Adding horizontal rules	90	(1)
Page Layout	91	(16)
Specifying the margins	92	(1)
Creating indents	93	(1)
Creating indents (with lists)	94	(1)
Specifying the space between paragraphs	95	(1)
Creating blocks of space	96	(1)
Using pixel shims	97	(1)
Creating columns	98	(1)
Centering elements on a page	99	(1)
Positioning elements with layers	100	(2)
Using background color	102	(1)
Using background images	103	(1)
Using block quotes	104	(1)
Quoting short passages of text	105	(1)
Controlling line breaks	106	(1)
Links	107	(18)
Creating a link to another Web page	108	(2)
Creating anchors	110	(1)
Linking to a specific anchor	111	(1)
Targeting links to specific windows	112	(1)
Setting the default target	113	(1)
Creating other kinds of links	114	(2)
Creating keyboard shortcuts for links	116	(1)
Setting the tab order for links	117	(1)
Using images to label links	118	(1)
Dividing an image into clickable regions	119	(1)
Creating a client-side image map	120	(2)
Using a server-side image map	122	(1)
Changing the color of links	123	(2)
Lists	125	(8)
Creating ordered lists	126	(2)
Creating unordered lists	128	(2)
Creating definition lists	130	(1)
Creating nested lists	131	(2)
Tables	133	(24)
Creating a simple table	134	(1)
Putting beader cells across the top	135	(1)
Putting header cells on top and left	136	(1)
Adding a caption	137	(1)
Dividing your table into column groups	138	(2)
Dividing the table into horizontal sections	140	(1)
Adding a border	141	(1)
Choosing which borders to display	142	(2)
Spanning a cell across two or more columns	144	(1)
Spanning a cell across two or more rows	145	(1)
Changing a table's width and height	146	(1)
Changing a cell's size	147	(1)
Aligning the contents of cells	148	(2)
Changing a cell's color	150	(1)
Using a background image	151	(1)
Spacing and padding the cells	152	(1)
Controlling line breaks in a cell	153	(1)
Speeding up table display	154	(1)
Mapping out a table	155	(2)
Frames	157	(20)
Creating a simple frameset	158	(2)
Creating frames in columns	160	(1)
Creating frames in rows and columns	161	(1)
Combining framesets	162	(2)
Creating an inline frame	164	(1)
Adjusting a frame's margins	165	(1)
Showing or hiding scroll bars	166	(1)
Adjusting the color of the borders	167	(1)
Adjusting the borders' thickness	168	(1)
Hiding or showing the borders	169	(1)
Keeping visitors from resizing frames	170	(1)
Adjusting the spacing between frames	171	(1)
Targeting links to particular frames	172	(1)
Targeting links to special spots	173	(1)
Changing the default target	174	(1)
Nesting framesets	175	(1)
Creating alternatives to frames	176	(1)
Forms	177	(28)
About CGI scripts	178	(3)
Getting a script ready	181	(1)
Creating a form	182	(1)
Creating text boxes	183	(1)
Creating password boxes	184	(1)
Creating larger text areas	185	(1)
Creating radio buttons	186	(1)
Creating check boxes	187	(1)
Creating menus	188	(2)
Allowing visitors to upload files	190	(1)
Creating hidden elements	191	(1)
Creating the submit button	192	(2)
Resetting the form	194	(2)
Active images	196	(1)
Organizing the form elements	197	(1)
Formally labelling form parts	198	(1)
Setting the tab order	199	(1)
Adding keyboard shortcuts	200	(1)
Disabling form elements	201	(1)
Keeping elements from being changed	202	(1)
Using a form hosting service	203	(2)
Multimedia	205	(16)
Helper applications	206	(1)
Non-supported images	207	(1)
Sound	208	(2)
Converting sound formats	210	(1)
Adding external sound to a Web page	211	(1)
Adding internal sound for Netscape users	212	(1)
Adding background sound for Explorer users	213	(1)
Video	214	(1)
Converting video to the proper format	215	(1)
Adding external video to your page	216	(1)
Adding internal video	217	(1)
Adding internal video for Internet Explorer	218	(1)
Creating a marquee	219	(1)
Inserting applets	220	(1)
Setting up Style Sheets	221	(12)
The anatomy of a style	222	(1)
Applying styles locally	223	(1)
Creating an internal style sheet	224	(2)
Creating an external style sheet	226	(1)
Using an external style sheet	227	(1)
Defining styles for classes	228	(1)
Identifying particular tags	229	(1)
Special tags for styles	230	(2)
Defining styles for links	232	(1)
Formatting Text with Styles	233	(16)
Choosing a font family	234	(1)
Embedding fonts on a page	235	(1)
Creating italics	236	(1)
Applying bold formatting	237	(1)
Setting the font size	238	(1)
Setting the line height	239	(1)
Setting all font values at once	240	(1)
Setting the text color	241	(1)
Changing the text's background	242	(1)
Controlling spacing	243	(1)
Setting white space properties	244	(1)
Aligning text	245	(1)
Underlining text	246	(1)
Making text blink	247	(1)
Changing the text case	248	(1)
Layout with Styles	249	(18)
Offsetting elements within the natural flow	250	(1)
Positioning elements absolutely	251	(1)
Positioning elements in 3D	252	(1)
Displaying and hiding elements	253	(1)
Setting the height or width for an element	254	(1)
Setting the border	255	(1)
Adding padding around an element	256	(1)
Setting the margins around an element	257	(1)
Aligning elements vertically	258	(1)
Wrapping text around elements	259	(1)
Stopping text wrap	260	(1)
Changing the foreground color	261	(1)
Changing the background	262	(1)
Determining where overflow should go	263	(1)
Clipping an element	264	(1)
Setting list properties	265	(1)
Specifying page breaks	266	(1)
Scripts	267	(10)
Adding an ``automatic'' script	268	(1)
Calling an external automatic script	269	(1)
Triggering a script	270	(2)
Creating a button that executes a script	272	(1)
Hiding scripts from older browsers	273	(1)
Adding alternate information	274	(1)
Setting the default scripting language	275	(2)
Extras	277	(12)
The inspiration of others	278	(1)
Creating a counter	279	(1)
Changing a link's status label	280	(1)
Souping up mailto links	281	(1)
Creating drop caps	282	(1)
Using vertical rules	283	(1)
Creating buttons with tables	284	(1)
Using tables for layout	285	(1)
A shortcut for creating HTML tables in Word	286	(2)
Creating an automatic slide show	288	(1)
Publishing	289	(14)
Helping visitors find your page	290	(1)
Controlling your page's summary	291	(1)
Controlling other information about your page	292	(1)
Keeping search engine robots out	293	(1)
Testing your page	294	(2)
Transferring files to the server	296	(4)
Transferring files to AOL or CompuServe	300	(1)
Changing permissions	301	(1)
Advertising your site	302	(1)
Appendix A: HTML Tools	303	(4)
HTML Editors	304	(2)
Free-use images for your pages	306	(1)
Graphics Tools	306	(1)
Image Map Tools	306	(1)
Appendix B: Special Symbols	307	(4)
Using special symbols	308	(1)
Table I: Characters	309	(1)
Table II: Symbols	310	(1)
Appendix C: Colors in Hex	311	(4)
Finding a color's RGB components---in hex	312	(1)
Hexadecimal equivalents	313	(1)
The Hexadecimal system	313	(2)
Appendix D: HTML and Compatibility	315	(8)
HTML Tags	316	(6)
Intrinsic events	322	(1)
Index	323