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Dhtml and CSS for the World Wide Web

Jason Cranford Teague

592 pages, parution le 01/06/2001 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

Add dynamic interactivity to your Web site with DHTML and Cascading Style Sheets!

Targeted to designers and content creators, not just programmers.
Visual, task-based format the ideal way to get up and running with DHTML.

This revised and expanded second edition is up-to-date on the current Web standards and browsers, and includes all new coverage of using DHTML to get information about the browser environment and adding multimedia to a site, as well as new basic and advanced dynamic techniques, such as making objects appear and disappear, moving objects in 3D, and adding dynamic content. This edition offers full cross-platform and cross-browser coverage. This book does not focus on the more complex aspects of DHTML, but focuses on practical examples of what really works with DHTML and CSS, making it useful for beginners just starting out with DHTML, as well as professional developers looking for a quick reference.

Contents

Introduction.

Who Is This Book For? Everyone Is a Web Designer. Understanding the Environment. What Is an Element? What Is an Object? What Is CSS? What Is DHTML? The Flavors of DHTML. Flash v. DHTML. The Current Web Standards. What Tools Do You Need for This Book? Values and Units Used in This Book. The DHTML VQS Websites.

I. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.

1. Understanding CSS.

What Is a Style? What Are Cascading Style Sheets? Who Owns CSS? Understanding HTML Tags (Selectors). Kinds of HTML Tags. Understanding CSS Definitions.

2. CSS Basics: Setting Up Styles.

Adding CSS to an HTML Tag. Adding CSS to a Web Page. Adding CSS to a Website. Redefining an HTML Tag. Defining Classes to create your Own Elements. Creating your Own Inline HTML Tags. Creating your Own Block-Level HTML Tags. Defining IDs to Identify an Object. Defining Tags with the Same Rules. Defining Tags in Context. Determining the Cascade Order. Setting up Multiple Style Sheets in a Single Document. Making a Rule. External Style Sheet Strategies. Inheriting Property from Parents. Managing Preexisting or Inherited Property Values. Setting the CSS for the Output Medium. Adding Comments to CSS.

3. Font Controls.

CSS v. The Font Tag. Typography on the Web. Setting the Font. Downloading Fonts. Using Browser Safe Fonts. Setting the Font Size. Making Text Italic. Setting Bold, Bolder, Boldest. Setting up Multiple Font Values.

4. TextControls.

Adjusting the Kerning (Letter Spacing). Adjusting the Word Spacing. Adjusting the Leading (Line Spacing). Setting Text Case (Upper/Lower). Justifying the Text (Left, Right, and Center). Aligning the Text Vertically. Indenting Paragraphs. Controlling Text Case (Upper or Lower). Decorating the Text (Underlining Text). Controlling White Space. Setting Page Breaks for Printing.

5. Border and Margin Controls.

Understanding the Objects Box. Setting an Element's Margins. Setting an Element's Padding. Setting an Element's Border. Setting the Width and Height of on Element. Wrapping Text around an Element (aka "Floating"). Preventing Text from Wrapping. Telling an Object how to Display (or Not).

6. Color and Background Controls.

Setting a Foreground Color. Setting a Background Color. Setting a Background Image. Repeating a Background Image. Positioning a Background on a Screen. Fixing Backgrounds on a Screen. Setting the Hypertext Link Colors.

7. List & Mouse Controls.

Setting the Bullet Style. Creating a Hanging Indent. Creating your Own Bullets. Setting up a List. Changing the Mouse Pointer's Appearance.

8. Positioning Controls.

Understanding the Window. Setting Absolute, Relative, Fixed, or Static Positions for Objects. Setting the Left and Top Margins for an Object. Placing an Element anywhere in a Web Page. Offsetting Elements Relative to their Natural Position. Fixing an Element in the Browser Window. Using Static Positioning. Nesting an Absolute Element in a Relative Element. Nesting a Relative Element in an Absolute Element. Creating Floating Element with Positions. Stacking Objects on Top of Each Other (3-D Positioning).

9. Visibility Controls.

Setting the Visibility of an Element. Setting the Visible Area of an Element (Clipping). Setting Where the Overflow Goes.

10. Page Layout with CSS.

Layout with CSS v. Tables. Creating Headlines. Creating a Side Bar. Creating a Title Bar. Creating Drop Caps. Creating a Simple Drop Shadow. Setting up Columns. Looking Good in Print (On the Web). Making your Own Frame Borders.

II. DYNAMIC HTML.

11. The Document Object Model.

the DOM: Road Map to Your Web Page. How the DOM Works. The Object Flow. Creating An Object (CSS Layers). The Netscape Layers DOM. The 'all' DOM. The 'id' DOM. Event Handlers. Detecting an Event. Using Feature Sensing. Detecting the DOM Type. Building a Crossbrowser DOM.

12. Learning about Your Environment.

Detecting the Browser Name and Version. Detecting the Operating System. Finding the Screen Dimensions. Finding the Browser Dimensions. Finding the Page Dimensions. Finding an Objects Dimensions. Finding an Objects Location.

13. Dynamic Techniques: the Basics.

Making Things Appear. Making Things Disappear. Making Things Change. Moving Things from Point-to-point. Moving Things by a Certain Amount. Moving Things in 3-D. Animating an Object. Setting the Back ground Color.

14 Dynamic Techniques: Advanced.

Dynamic Content between Frames. Dynamic Content in Tables. Finding Your Location on the Screen. Identifying an Object on the Screen.

15. Netscape Layers.

What Is a Layer? Layers v. ID. Creating a Layer. Using a Layer. Accessing Layers with JavaScript. Modifying layers with JavaScript. Providing Content for Non-layers Browsers.

16. IE's Visual Controls.

Fading between Objects. Transitions between pages. Making an Object Blur. Making an Object Wave.

17. Dynamic CSS.

Accessing a Property. Changing a Property. Adding a New Rule. Dynamically. Disabling a Rule.

III. USING DHTML & CSS TOOLS.

18 GoLive.

the GoLive Interface. The CSS Control Palettes. Adding CSS to a Web Page. Defining an Object (Floating Box). Using JavaScript Actions. The Time Line Editor. Animating an Object. Adding Actions to an Animation.

19. Dreamweaver.

the Dreamweaver Interface. The CSS Control Palettes. Adding CSS to a Web Page. Defining an Object. Using JavaScript Behaviors. The Time Line Inspector. Animating an Object.

20. Freeway.

the Freeway Interface. The CSS Palette. Adding CSS to a Web Page. Defining an Object. Using JavaScript Actions. Animating an Object.

IV. CREATING A DYNAMIC Website.

21. Planning a Dynamic Site.

Understanding Hypertext. Designing Better Hypertext. Creating a Design Document. Creating a Site Map. Thinking in Motion. Providing Navigation for Non-Dynamic browsers.

22. Importing External Content.

Combining iLayers and iFrames. Using Server Side Includes. Using an external JavaScript File. Viewing Someone Else's External Content.

23. Website Navigation.

Website Navigation Dos. Website Navigation Don'ts. Creating Drop-Down Menus. Creating a Menu Bar. Creating a Sliding menu. Creating a Remote Control. Creating a Clam Shell Menu. Creating a Breadcrum Menu. Using the Link Tags.

24. Layout.

the Layout Grid. Netscape CSS Bug Fix. Setting the CSS for the OS. Letting the User Pick the Layout. Setting a Dynamic Header and Footer. Keeping Pages Framed. Open and Close Frames.

25. Controls.

Creating Your Own Scrollbars. Creating Your Own Back Button. Dragging Objects. Pop-Up Hypertext. Contextual Forms.

26. Special Effects.

Advanced Drop Shadow. Fading HTML Text. Follow the Mouse. Animating Objects: the Bouncing Banner. Toggling Graphics. Persistent Rollovers. Transparent Graphics with the PNG format.

27. Multimedia.

Using Sound. Creating a Sound. Embedding Sound in a Web Page. Adding Sound to a Link. Using Video. Linking to a Video. Embedding a Video. Using Java Embedding Java Applets. Using Flash. Creating a Flash animation. Embedding a Flash File.

28. When Things Go Wrong-Debugging Your Code.

Troubleshooting CSS. Troubleshooting JavaScript. Crossbrowser Conundrums.

29. The Future of Dynamic Content.

Why Standards Matter. XML. XML and the DOM. XSL. XHTML. SMIL . Is Flash the Web's Future? What's Next: CSS Level 3.

APPENDICES.

Appendix A: The Browsers.

Netscape Navigator. Internet Explorer. Other Browsers.

Appendix B: CSS Quick Reference.
Appendix C: DHTML Quick Reference.

JavaScript Reserved Words. Object Flow. DHTML Objects.

Appendix D: Browser Safe Fonts.

Apple Macintosh. Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Appendix E: Bugs and Fixes.

CSS. DHTML.

Appendix F: Tools of the Trade.
Appendix G: Further Research.

webbedENVIRONMENTS. Building the Web. Web Monkey. VisiBone

L'auteur - Jason Cranford Teague

Jason Cranford Teague earned a Masters of Science in Technical Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he first discovered the World Wide Web back in the dark ages of 1994. While at RPI, he worked as the art director of The Computer Mediated Communications Magazine, one of the first fully Web-based magazines, and cofounded KAIROS, an online journal for teachers in webbed environments.

Since then, he has worked for IBM as a technical writer, Persimmon IT as a Web designer--designing Web sites for Siemens and Digital amongst others--and has consulted on the European Space Agency's Web site while freelancing in London. He has written extensively on the topic of Web design for the Apple Developers Center,Adobe, C|Net, Tripod, and The Independent and maintains an archive of these articles at webbedENVIRONMENTS (www.webbedenvironments.com). Most importantly, he is busy raising his children, Jocelyn and Dashiel, with his wife Tara.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Peachpit Press
Auteur(s)	Jason Cranford Teague
Parution	01/06/2001
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	592
Format	17,7 x 22,8
Couverture	Broché
Poids	957g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780201730845