HTML 4.01 Programmer's reference

This is a book for web programmers of any level, from beginners getting to grips with the basics of HTML coding, to more advanced programmers who need a comprehensive HTML reference guide that is completely up-to-date with the new 4.01 specification.

• How the Web works, including new web standards, and the functional features of an HTML document
• The basics of HTML programming: text formatting, links, images, forms, tables, and frames, including all elements and attributes
• Using Style Sheets with HTML (covers CSS 1, 2, and 3)
• Basic HTML Scripting techniques, including DHTML and the DOM standard levels 1 and 2
• Using multimedia in HTML pages via embedded objects, including Flash animations and Java Applets
• Accessibility and interoperability (including aural style sheets and cross browser coding), and internationalization
• Deprecated and browser-specific (IE and Netscape) HTML features XHTML 1.0 and 1.1
• New and Upcoming HTML standards

Table of Contents

• Section 1 : The HTML 4.01 Standard
• Chapter 1 - Inside
• Chapter 2 - Presenting the
• Chapter 3 - Links and Images
• Chapter 4 - Forms
• Chapter 5 - Tables And Page Layout
• Chapter 6 - Frames
• Chapter 7 - Scripting and Inherent Events
• Chapter 8 - Embedding Objects In A Page

• Section 2 : The CSS-1 and CSS-2 Standards
• Chapter 9 - Stylesheet Fundamentals
• Chapter 10 - Character Styles
• Chapter 11 - Block Properties
• Chapter 12 - Aural Style Sheets

• Section 3 : Browser-Specific and Deprecated Tags And Styles
• Chapter 13 - Deprecated Tags
• Chapter 14 - Internet Explorer Specific Tags And Styles
• Chapter 15 - Netscape Navigator Specific Tags And Styles
• Chapter 16 - Issues with any other browsers

• Section 4 : Issues Beyond The ML
• Chapter 17 - Writing Good HTML
• Chapter 18 - Cross-Browser, Cross-OS
• Chapter 19 - Internationalisation
• Chapter 20 - Accessibility for the disabled
• Chapter 21 - Getting your site seen by search engines
• Chapter 22 - Security

• Section 5 : Additional Technologies
• Chapter 23 - Dynamic Pages - Scripting, DHTML and the DOM
• Chapter 24 - Java
• Chapter 25 - New and Upcoming Standards

• Appendices
• Appendix A - The 'Websafe' Colour Chart
• Appendix B - Mime Types
• Appendix C - HTML Character Codes, Numeric and Shortcuts
• Appendix D - HTML Locales and Character Sets
• Appendix E - Support and Errata