An essential update to the key web authoring standards of HTML, XHTML, and CSS The existence of Web pages depends on three vital technologies: HTML (base language that Web pages are written in), XHTML (standards that define how to write HTML pages), and CSS (standard that applies formatting styles to Web pages). This new edition provides you with critical coverage of these three Web authoring standards, and places special focus on the upcoming releases of HTML 5 and CSS 3. Serving as a tutorial and reference, this comprehensive resource explains the basic structure and necessary formatting to create a static (non-changing) and dynamic (changing) page on the Internet. Coverage includes: * Creating Content with HTML * Markup Languages * HTML Values and Units * What Goes into a Web Document? * The HEAD Elements * Text Structuring Essentials * Character Formatting Essentials * Lists, Links, Tables, Frames, and Forms * Multimedia * Dynamic HTML * HTML Tools and Variants * Web Development Software * Publishing Your Site * An Introduction To XML * Creating Mobile Documents * Tidying and Validating Your Documents * Controlling Presentation with CSS * Style Definitions * CSS Values and Units * CSS Inheritance and Cascade * Font Properties * Text Formatting * Padding, Margins, and Borders * Colors and Backgrounds * CSS Layouts * Pseudo-Elements and Generated Content * Dynamic HTML with CSS * Media Styles and Defining Documents for Printing * The Future of CSS: CSS3 * User Interface Styles * Testing and Validating CSS * HTML, XHTML, and CSS Tips and Tricks Helpful examples round out this essential guide and will get you up and running with HTML, XHMTL, and CSS in no time!

Jon Duckett has spent over a decade helping a wide range of companies implement innovative web strategies. Taking a hands-on approach, he designs many of the projects he works on"and helps to code them. During this time, Jon has written several books covering web design, programming, accessibility and usability.

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Introduction. Chapter 1: Structuring Documents for the Web. Chapter 2: Links and Navigation. Chapter 3: Images, Audio, and Video. Chapter 4: Tables. Chapter 5: Forms. Chapter 6: Frames. Chapter 7: Cascading Style Sheets. Chapter 8: More Cascading Style Sheets. Chapter 9: Page Layout. Chapter 10: Design Issues. Chapter 11: Learning JavaScript. Chapter 12: Working with JavaScript. Chapter 13: Putting Your Site on the Web. Chapter 14: Checklists. Appendix A: Answers to Exercises. Appendix B: XHTML Element Reference. Appendix C: CSS Properties. Appendix D: Color Names and Values. Appendix E: Character Encodings. Appendix F: Special Characters. Appendix G: Language Codes. Appendix H: MIME Media Types. Appendix I: Deprecated and Browser - Specific Markup. Index.