HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: VQS

by Castro, Elizabeth

Edition:

3rd

ISBN13:

9780201696967

ISBN10:

0201696967

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

5/1/1998

Publisher(s):

Pearson P T R

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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.

Introduction

(290)

HTML and the Web

(1)

Users vs. Programmers

(2)

Different versions of HTML

(1)

Cascading Style Sheets

(1)

What is DHTML?

(1)

HTML browsers

(1)

The HTML VQS Web Site

(2)

HTML Building Blocks

(8)

Writing HTML

(1)

HTML tags

(2)

Spacing

(1)

Special symbols

(1)

URLs

(4)

Starting your Web Page

(12)

Designing your site

(1)

Organizing files

(1)

Designating a home page

(1)

Creating a new Web page

(1)

Looking at your page in a browser

(1)

Starting your Web page

(1)

Understanding the HEAD and BODY

(1)

Creating a title

(1)

Organizing the page

(1)

Starting a new paragraph

(1)

Creating a line break

(1)

Text Formatting

(14)

Changing the font

(1)

Making text bold or italic

(1)

Choosing a default size for body text

(1)

Changing the text size

(1)

Using relative values to change text size

(1)

Choosing a default color for text

(1)

Changing the text color

(1)

Creating superscripts and subscripts

(1)

Using a monospaced font

(1)

Using preformatted text

(1)

Striking out or underlining text

(1)

Making text blink

(1)

Hiding text (Adding comments)

(1)

Creating Images

(20)

Making images smaller

(2)

Exporting GIF images from Photoshop

(2)

Using (mostly) browser safe colors

(2)

Converting to browser safe colors

(1)

Reducing the number of colors

(1)

Creating transparency

(2)

Creating fake transparency

(1)

Interlacing GIF images

(1)

Creating animated GIFs

(1)

Creating JPEG images

(1)

Blurring images to aid JPEG compression

(1)

Creating low resolution images

(1)

Creating PNG files

(1)

Using Images

(14)

Inserting images on a page

(1)

Offering alternate text

(1)

Specifying size for speedier viewing

(1)

Linking icons to external images

(1)

Using low resolution images

(1)

Wrapping text around images

(2)

Stopping text wrap

(1)

Adding space around an image

(1)

Scaling an image

(1)

Aligning images

(1)

Using a banner

(1)

Adding horizontal rules

(1)

Page Layout

(16)

Specifying the margins

(1)

Creating indents

(1)

Creating indents (with lists)

(1)

Specifying the space between paragraphs

(1)

Creating blocks of space

(1)

Using pixel shims

(1)

Creating columns

(1)

Centering elements on a page

(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

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