The fastest route to true HTML/CSS mastery! Need to build a web site? Or update one? Or just create some effective new web content? Maybe you just need to update your skills, do the job better. Welcome. This book's for you. We'll leverage what you already know about the web, so you'll go further, faster than you ever expected. You'll master today's best practices: the real nuts and bolts, not theory or hooey. You'll learn through dozens of focused HTML, XHTML, and CSS examples: crafted for simplicity and easy to adapt for your own projects. Need specific solutions? This book's modular, visual, high-efficiency format delivers them instantly. Molly E. Holzschlag draws on her unparalleled experience teaching Web design and development. No other HTML/CSS guide covers this much, this well, this quickly. Dig in, get started, get results! All you need to succeed with HTML, XHTML, and CSS in real-world projects Learn how to build web pages that'll work in any environment, on virtually any contemporary browser Construct templates that simplify every page you develop Structure and tag text so it's easy to work with and manage Add images, media, and scripts–quickly and reliably Discover the right ways to use HTML tables Build easy-to-use forms and validate your users' input Use CSS to take total control over your site's look and feel Master core CSS techniques: color, images, text styles, link effects, lists, navigation, and more Control margins, borders, padding, positioning, floats, even Z-index Design efficient, compatible, easy-to-manage CSS layouts Includes concise XHTML and CSS annotated references: quick help for every language element Spring Into... is a new series of fast-paced tutorials from Addison-Wesley. Each book in the series is designed to bring you up to speed quickly. Complex topics and technologies are reduced to their core components, and each component is treated with remarkable efficiency in one- or two-page spreads. Just the information you need to begin working...now! And because the books are example-rich and easy to navigate, you'll find that they make great on-the-job references after you've mastered the basics. © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents:
Preface. Acknowledgments. About the Author. About the Series Editor. 1. Building an HTML Page.     Declaring and Identifying the Document     Adding the html Element     The head and title Elements     The meta Element     The body Element     HTML Comments     Reviewing the Template     Text Is Next! 2. Adding Text and Links.     Using Headers Properly     Adding Paragraphs     Working with Page Breaks     Ordered Lists     Unordered Lists     Nesting Lists     Definition Lists     The Good Old Link     Email Links     Intrapage Linking     Adding Content to the Template     Wrapping It Up 3. Adding Images, Media, and Scripts.     The img Element     Adding width and height Values     Providing Alternative Text     Linking the Image     Linking to an Audio or Video File     Embedding Files Using the object Element     But Your Honor, I Object!     Adding Scripts     Scripting and Browser Concerns     Imagine That! 4. Creating Tables.     The table Element     Adding a Table Row     Adding Table Cells     Adding Table Headers     Adding a Caption     Table Summaries     Spanning Rows     Spanning Columns     Combining colspan and rowspan     Grouping Table Columns: The col Element     Grouping Table Columns with colgroup     Grouping Table Rows     The Table's Set 5. Building Forms.     The form Element     Adding an Input Textbox     Adding Check Boxes and Radio Buttons     Preselecting Checked Items     Using Form Menus     Working with Text Areas     Reset and Submit Buttons     Using a Graphic Submit Button     Making Forms More Accessible with label     Grouping Form Fields     Grouping Menu Items     Customizing and Advancing Your Forms     Now That You're Well-Formed 6. Working with Frames.     The Power of Three     Creating a Frameset     Adding Columns     Working with Rows     Combining Columns and Rows     Margin, Resize, and Scroll Controls     Naming and Targeting Frames     Frames Without Frontiers     Making Frames Accessible with noframes     Wonderful Inline Frames     You're Framed! 7. Using CSS.     CSS Theory Simplified     Adding Style Inline     Using Embedded Style     Creating a Linked Style Sheet     Importing Style Sheets     Commenting and Formatting CSS     Time to Put Your Imagination to Work! 8. Working with Color and Images Using CSS.     Color and CSS     Adding Color to Backgrounds     Spicing Up a Table Using Background Color     Attaching a Background Graphic     Controlling How Backgrounds Tile     Positioning a Background Graphic     Fixing and Scrolling Background Images     Making a Background Color Transparent     CSS Shorthand for Backgrounds     Having Fun Yet? 9. Styling Text.     Choosing Fonts     Applying Font Families to Text     Sizing Fonts     Font Weight and Style     Coloring Text     Aligning Text     Text Decoration     Indenting Text     Transforming and Varying Text     Setting Line Height     Spacing Letters and Words     Modifying First-Letter and First-Line Text     Using Shorthand for Font Styles     Now You're Getting Fancy! 10. Link Effects, Lists, and Navigation.     Working with Link States     Modifying Link Styles     Multiple Link Styles Using Class Selectors     Styling Links Using Descendant Selectors     Styling Ordered Lists     Styling Unordered Lists     Shorthand CSS for List Styles     List-Based Vertical Navigation Using Color     Vertical List Navigation with Image Effects     Horizontal List-Based Navigation with Color     Horizontal List Navigation with Images     Rich Links, Lists, and Navigation 11. Margins, Borders, and Padding.     Exploring the Box Model     Using Margins     Using Negative Margins     Margin Shorthand     Styling Borders     Border Shorthand     Using Padding     Padding Shorthand     Toward Gaining More Control 12. Positioning, Floats, and Z-index.     Getting into Position     Normal Flow     Containing Blocks     The Browser Viewport     Absolute Positioning: To the Root Element     Absolute Positioning: To Another Block     Relative Positioning     Fixed Positioning     Floating Elements     Clearing Floats     Z-index     Just Like a Pro 13. CSS Layouts.     Three Columns with Fixed Flanking Menus     Three Columns with Masthead and Footer     Nested Float     Centered Designs     Complex Layouts     Repeat After Me Appendix A: XHTML 1.0 Annotated Reference. Appendix B: CSS 2.1 Annotated Reference. Index.