HTML And XHTML: Pocket Reference

by Robbins, Jennifer Niederst

• ISBN13: 9780596527273
• ISBN10: 0596527276
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

An indispensable reference for web designers, authors and programmers, this concise guide to every HTML tag has been brought up-to-date with the current HTML specification. Each tag entry includes detailed information on the tag's attributes and support information for the latest web browsers -- Netscape 6, IE 6, and Opera 5. Author Jennifer Niederst provides context for the tags, indicating which are grouped together, and offers bare-bones examples of how standard web page elements are constructed.

Author Biography

1. Jennifer Niederst Robbins

   Jennifer Niederst Robbins was one of the first designers for the Web. As the designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site, she has been designing for the Web since 1993. Since then, she has worked as the creative director of Songline Studios (a former subsidiary of O'Reilly) and as a freelance designer and consultant since 1996. She is the author of the bestselling "Web Design in a Nutshell" and "Learning Web Design (O'Reilly), and she has taught web design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and Johnson and Wales University in Providence. She has spoken at major design and Internet events including SXSW Interactive, Seybold Seminars, the GRAFILL conference (Geilo, Norway), and one of the first W3C International Expos. In addition to designing, Jennifer enjoys cooking, travel, indie-rock, and making stuff. She maintains her own professional web site at www.littlechair.com as well.

Table of Contents

HTML and XHTML Fundamentals

How XHTML Differs from HTML

Three Versions of (X)HTML

Minimal Document Structure

DOCTYPEs for Available DTDs

Alphabetical List of Elements

Common Attributes and Events(X)HTML Elements

Character Entities

ASCII Character Set

Nonstandard Entities ([$$$]-- )Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)

Latin Extended-ALatin Extended-B

Spacing Modifier Letters

Greek

General Punctuation

Letter-like Symbols

Arrows

Mathematical Operators

Miscellaneous Technical Symbols

Geometric Shapes

Miscellaneous Symbols

Specifying Color

RGB Values

Standard Color Names

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