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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813396003321

Autore

DeBolt Virginia

Titolo

Integrated HTML and CSS : a smarter, faster way to learn / / Virginia DeBolt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : SYBEX, c2005

ISBN

1-280-52151-1

9786610521517

0-7821-5079-9

1-4175-6839-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Disciplina

006.7/4

Soggetti

HTML (Document markup language)

Cascading style sheets

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Integrated HTML and CSS: A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn; Front matter; Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: How to Write XHTML and CSS; Anatomy of a Website; What Are XHTML and HTML?; What's the Difference between XHTML and HTML?; What Is CSS?; Getting Started with XHTML Syntax; Opening and Closing Tags; Empty Elements; XHTML: Specific Requirements; Getting Started with CSS Syntax; Selectors and Declarations; Quotation Marks; Real World Example; Summary; Chapter 2: Location, Location: Where to Put a Style; The Cascade; Begin with the Browser; User Styles

External Styles Embedded Styles; Inline Styles; Inheritance; Specificity; Using @import; Real World Example; Summary; Chapter 3: Page Basic: DOCTYPE, Head, Body, and Body Styles; Learn the XHTML; The Goal; DOCTYPES; The XML Declaration; Let's Get Started; The Head; Saving; The Body; Take a Look in a Browser; Learn the CSS; Create the Stylesheet; The Background; Specifying Colors for Web Pages; Link to the Stylesheet; Take a Look; The Margins; Move Your Body; Color Isn't Everything; Real World Example; CSS Properties for the body Element; Challenge Yourself; Summary

Chapter 4: Headings and Heading Styles Learn the XHTML; Building



Structure with Headings; How to Work through the Chapter; Adding to the XHTML; Learn the CSS; Start with site Name; Headings with Class; Compare Results; The Box Model; Real World Example; CSS Properties for Headings; Challenge Yourself; Summary; Chapter 5: Page Divisions: Div for Structure and Layout; Learn the XHTML; Organizing Content Structurally; To div or Not to div; Learn the CSS; Absolute Positioning; Relative Positioning; Fixed Positioning; Using Margins to Arrange Content; Using Classes to Style Headings

Using float to Arrange Content What Else Floats?; Why Not Left?; Using z-index to Arrange Content; Real World Example; CSS Properties; Challenge Yourself; Summary; Chapter 6: Paragraph and Text Styles; Learn the XHTML; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Special Characters; The cite Element; Block Quotes; Formatting for Meaning: The em and strong Elements; More Text Formatting Elements; Making Your XHTML Text CSS-Ready; Learn the CSS; Start Your Stylesheet; More Body Rules; Heading Rules; Paragraph Rules; Block Quote Rules; em and His Buddy strong Once Again; Acronym; Callout; Footer

The Whole Stylesheet Print Preview; Let's Go into Print; Start Your Stylesheet; Using the display Property to Remove Content; Setting Print Margins; Changing the Font Size for Print; Changing the Font Family for Print; Changing the Text Indent for Print; The Whole Stylesheet; Real World Example; CSS Properties; Challenge Yourself; Summary; Chapter 7: Link and Link Styles; Organizing a Site; Anatomy of a URL; Folder Names; Home Page; Learn the XHTML; Linking from One Page to Another in the Same Directory; Relative and Absolute Links; Linking to Pages in Different Directories

Linking to Non-HTML Files

Sommario/riassunto

Almost all web designers use Cascading Sheets to control the presentation of the websites they construct out of HTML. Why learn one and then the other when you can just as easily-and much more effectively-learn both at the same time? This book's integrated approach speeds your progress and leaves you with a stronger, more cohesive set of skills. Inside, you'll learn about: Writing well-structured HTML for use by any web-capable device Designing page layouts using CSS Controlling fonts, colors, backgrounds, borders, and margins Using lists to create attractive, button-like menu