HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition
By Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
Fourth Edition
August 2000
Pages: 672
ISBN 10: 0-596-00026-X |
ISBN 13: 9780596000264




(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)
This book has been updated—the edition you're requesting is OUT OF PRINT. Please visit the catalog page of the latest edition.
The latest edition is also available on Safari Books Online.
Book description
This complete guide is full of examples, sample code, and practical hands-on advice for creating truly effective web pages and mastering advanced features. Web authors learn how to insert images, create useful links and searchable documents,use Netscape extensions, design great forms, and much more. The fourth edition covers XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.01, Netscape 6.0, and Internet Explorer 5.0, plus all the common extensions.
Full Description
HTML is changing so fast it's almost impossible to keep up with developments. XHTML is HTML 4.0 rewritten in XML; it provides the precision of XML while retaining the flexibility of HTML.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition, brings it all together. It's the most comprehensive book available on HTML and XHTML today. It covers Netscape Navigator 6.0, Internet Explorer 5.0, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, JavaScript, Style sheets, Layers, and all of the features supported by the popular web browsers.
Learning HTML and XHTML is like learning any new language, computer or human. Most students first immerse themselves in examples. Studying others is a natural way to learn, making learning easy and fun. Imitation can take learning only so far, though. It's as easy to learn bad habits through imitation as it is to acquire good ones. The better way to become HTML-fluent is through a comprehensive reference that covers the language syntax, semantics, and variations in detail and demonstrates the difference between good and bad usage.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition, helps in both ways: the authors cover every element of HTML/XHTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. Many hints about HTML/XHTML style smooth the way for writing documents that range from simple online documentation to complex presentations. With hundreds of examples, the book gives web authors models for writing their own effective web pages and for mastering advanced features, like style sheets and frames.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition, shows how to:
- Implement the XHTML 1.0 standard and prepare web pages for the transition to XML browsers
- Use style sheets and layers to control a document's appearance
- Create tables, from simple to complex
- Use frames to coordinate sets of documents
- Design and build interactive forms and dynamic documents
- Insert images, sound files, video, Java applets, and JavaScript programs
- Create documents that look good on a variety of browsers
The book comes with a handy quick reference card listing HTML tags.
Browse within this book
Cover
| Table of Contents
| Colophon
Featured customer reviews

HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide 4th Edition Review,
April 13 2006
Submitted by Anonymous Reader [
Respond |
View]
QUISIERA TENER EL CURSO PARA APRENDERLO A MANEJAR EN MI COMPUTADORA PARA SER UN HACKER
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide 4th Edition Review,
April 22 2001
Submitted by Olivier L'Heureux
[
Respond |
View]
An excellent book to serve as a full reference.
It is very practical and not much abstract.
It is very complete and comprehensive; some chapters are repeating themselves a bit though.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide 4th Edition Review,
October 06 2000
Submitted by Joseph Heenan
[
Respond |
View]
Definitely a good purchase. It's not just a HTML book with an XML/XHTML chapter stuck on the end, the entire text has been updated to note differences between XHTML and HTML in the appropriate places.
Read all reviews
Media reviews
Best of 2001: Customers' Picks, amazon.com
2001 Web Development Editors' Picks, amazon.com
?If you are serious about designing documents and Web pages with HTML (HyperText Markup Language) then you *must* have this book. First of all, it *is* definitive. Many books, though much longer, don't begin to match the depth of this current work?All this, and readable, too. The content is straightforward and lucid. While you might not read this
book for laughs, it is not the tome to choose to put yourself to sleep at night, either. I can recommend this book, without reservation, to anyone who wants to learn HTML programming and use. It is, still, the definitive
guide and the only one I find I need to keep on my shelf.?
--Rob Slade, Internet Review, Dec 2001
Read all reviews