Schaum's Outline of HTML

by Mercer, David

• ISBN13: 9780071373654
• ISBN10: 0071373659
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-27
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

Schaum's Outline of HTML provides a succinct overview of the principles of Web design, HTML, and XHTML markup. Includes numerous examples where proper design techniques and markup are demonstrated. Offers pointers to copious additional resources, examples, and information on these topics online. Across all potential markets, there are over 400,000 students per year taking such courses at the college level; triple this number to account for high-school and adult/continuing education programs. This book is intended to provide a tightly focused, succinct overview of the concepts, terminology, techniques, and markup involved in creating effective, correct Web pages. It will include coverage of the most recent HTML specification (HTML 4.01), the current and pending XHTML specificaitons (XHTML 1.0 and 1.1), plus information about Web page design, layout, style sheets, frames and content management.

Author Biography

David Mercer (Spring Valley, CA) is President of AFC Computer Services, a Web site and Database design company. Dave has been designing databases since 1993 and Web sites since 1995, using a variety of languages including Paradox Application Language, PERL, HTML, VBA, VBScript, and SQL.

Table of Contents

Introduction to HTML	1	(22)
Origins of HyperText Markup Language (HTML)	1	(1)
The HTML Specification	2	(1)
The Structure and Functions of HTML	2	(1)
Browsers and Servers	3	(1)
The Role of HTTP	3	(3)
The Document Object Model (DOM)	6	(1)
Coding HTML Documents	7	(1)
Other Web Page Languages and Scripting	8	(1)
Web Page Design	9	(14)
HTML Page Formatting Basics	23	(25)
The HTML Document Type Definition (DTD) and Elements	23	(1)
Writing Well-formed HTML	24	(1)
Attributes	25	(1)
Intrinsic Events	25	(1)
Character Entity References (Special Characters)	26	(1)
The Basic Structure of HTML Documents	26	(1)
The HTML Element	27	(1)
The HEAD Element	27	(1)
The TITLE Element	28	(1)
The META Element	28	(1)
The BODY Element	29	(4)
Block-level/Inline-level and Grouping Elements	33	(1)
The DIV Element	33	(1)
The SPAN Element	34	(1)
The H Element (Headings 1 --- 6)	34	(1)
The ADDRESS Element	35	(1)
Text Formatting in Web Pages	35	(1)
Structured Text Elements	36	(1)
The BLOCKQUOTE and Q Elements	36	(1)
The SUP and SUB Elements	37	(1)
Paragraphs and the P Element	37	(1)
Line Breaks and the BR Element	38	(1)
Alignment and the align Attribute	38	(1)
Text Style Elements	39	(1)
Lines and the HR Element	40	(1)
A Formatted HTML Page	41	(7)
Advanced Web Page Formatting	48	(24)
The FONT and BASEFONT Elements	48	(2)
Lists and the UL, OL, and LI Elements	50	(1)
Definition Lists and the DL Element	51	(2)
Preformatted Text and the PRE Element	53	(1)
HTML Hypertext Links	53	(1)
The A and LINK Elements	54	(3)
Absolute and Relative URLs	57	(1)
The BASE Element	58	(1)
Placing Objects in Web Pages; the OBJECT Element	58	(3)
Initializing Objects with the PARAM Element	61	(3)
The APPLET Element	64	(8)
Web Graphics Basics	72	(22)
Web-safe or Browser-safe Colors	72	(1)
Images and Image File Formats	73	(1)
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)	73	(1)
The JPEG Image File Format	74	(1)
The PNG Image File Format	74	(1)
Creating Images	75	(4)
Processing Images for the Web	79	(7)
Inserting Images with the IMG Element	86	(8)
Advanced Web Graphics	94	(16)
Manipulating Images with IMG Element Attributes	94	(1)
Image Alignment and Word-wrapping	95	(1)
Spacing Around Images	95	(1)
Making an Image into an Image Map	96	(1)
Creative Graphics Usage	96	(2)
Image Map Basics	98	(1)
Client-side Image Map Coding	99	(3)
Server-side Image Map Coding	102	(8)
Tables and Frames	110	(28)
Introduction to Tables	110	(1)
The TABLE Element	111	(1)
Table Formatting and the CAPTION Element	112	(1)
Table Groupings and the THEAD, TFOOT, and TBODY Elements	113	(2)
Column Groupings and the COLGROUP Element	115	(4)
Individual Columns and the COL Element	119	(1)
Table Rows and the TR Element	119	(1)
Table Cells and the TH and TD Elements	120	(2)
Creating Framed Web Pages	122	(1)
The FRAMESET Element	123	(1)
Retrieving Frame Content with the FRAME Element	124	(3)
Sharing Data Between Frames	127	(1)
Targeting Frame Content	128	(1)
The NOFRAMES Element	129	(1)
Inline Frames and the IFRAME Element	130	(8)
Web Page Forms	138	(29)
Gathering Data with Forms	138	(1)
Web Page Forms and the FORM Element	139	(2)
Handling User Input with Form Controls	141	(1)
The INPUT Element	142	(6)
The BUTTON Element	148	(2)
Drop-down Menus and the SELECT, OPTGROUP, and OPTION Elements	150	(2)
The TEXTAREA Element	152	(1)
The LABEL Element	153	(1)
The FIELDSET and LEGEND Elements	153	(1)
Using Server-side and Client-side Scripting	154	(2)
Using Client-side Scripting with the DOM	156	(1)
The SCRIPT Element	157	(1)
Intrinsic Events	157	(1)
The NOSCRIPT Element	158	(9)
Cascading Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML	167	(23)
Style in HTML Pages and Style Sheets	168	(1)
CSS2 Selectors and Syntax	168	(1)
Setting the Style Sheet Language for HTML Documents	169	(1)
Creating Style References in Inline Elements	170	(1)
The STYLE Element	170	(2)
Conditional Use of Style Properties with Media Types	172	(1)
Style Sheet Files and External Style Sheets	173	(1)
Cascading Style Sheets	174	(1)
The Visual Formatting Model in CSS2	174	(1)
Positioning HTML Elements with CSS2	175	(2)
Absolute Positioning in the Third Dimension: The Z Index	177	(1)
Dynamic HTML	177	(1)
Using Scripts to Dynamically Modify Attributes and Content	178	(1)
Using Dynamic HTML with Internet Explorer	178	(2)
Using Dynamic HTML with Netscape Navigator	180	(10)
The XHTML Specification	190	(22)
What is XHTML 1.0?	190	(1)
Transitional, Strict, and Frameset XHTML	191	(1)
Converting HTML Documents to XHTML	191	(1)
The Modularization of XHTML	191	(1)
Differences Between HTML and XHTML	192	(5)
XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets	197	(1)
XHTML Events Module and Basic Events Module	197	(3)
Using Events in XHTML	200	(12)
Introduction to XML 1.0 and the Future	212	(15)
What is eXtensible Markup Language (XML)	212	(1)
The XML Document Structure	213	(1)
Writing XML DTDs	214	(2)
XML Schemas	216	(1)
XML Namespaces	217	(1)
XML Elements and Attributes --- Logical Structure	218	(2)
XML Processors	220	(1)
XML Transformations	221	(1)
XML Links (XLink, XML Base, XPointer)	222	(1)
XML Query	223	(4)
Appendix HTML Start Tag Reference	227	(3)
Index	230