HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Core Markup

1 Traditional HTML and XHTML

First Look at HTML and XHTML

Hello HTML and XHTML World

Viewing Markup Locally

Viewing Markup with a Web Server

HTML and XHTML: Version History

HTML and XHTML DTDs: The Specifications Up Close

Document Type Statements and Language Versions

(X)HTML Document Structure

The Document Head

The Document Body

Browsers and (X)HTML

Validation

The Doctype Switch and Browser Rendering Modes

The Rules of (X)HTML

HTML Is Not Case Sensitive, XHTML Is

Attribute Values May Be Case Sensitive

(X)HTML Is Sensitive to a Single Whitespace Character

(X)HTML Follows a Content Model

Elements Should Have Close Tags Unless Empty

Unused Elements May Minimize

Elements Should Nest

Attributes ...