Web developers―this is your all-in-one guide to HTML and CSS! Learn to use HTML to format text and structure web pages. Understand the HTML document skeleton before creating forms, referencing hyperlinks, embedding active content, and more. Then style your pages with CSS: Create consistent designs with selectors, the box model, the cascade algorithm, and inheritance. Round out your client-side development experience by getting to know JavaScript. With detailed code examples, you’ll master HTML and CSS in no time!
- Your complete guide to HTML5 and CSS3
- Build HTML documents, design with CSS, and get a hands-on introduction to JavaScript basics
- Create responsive layouts, work with graphics and video, and more
- Consult and download practical code examples
HTML for Formatting and Structure
Master HTML syntax and document structure. Work with tags, elements, and attributes to build HTML documents. Create tables and forms, embed images, configure links, and develop interactive HTML elements.
CSS for Style and Design
Develop simple and complex web layouts with CSS rules, selectors, declarations, combinators, pseudoclasses, and pseudoelements. Understand the principles of cascading, specificity, and inheritance. Learn to use the CSS box model, the position property, and more.
JavaScript Fundamentals
Expand your knowledge with an introduction to JavaScript. See how to use variables, statements, functions, arrays, and objects to write and run simple programs. Explore the basics of Ajax for interactive web application design.
HTML and CSS—the backbone of modern websites!
Inside the book
Beginners will gain a comprehensive understanding of HTML and CSS. It offers downloadable code examples for practicing with your own web pages. Web developers, and those working with PHP or programming for MySQL should read this book end to end for a complete overview, or use it as a reference for daily tasks. This book will help bloggers and content creators maintain pages with useful, easy-to-understand guidance about HTML and CSS. Additionally, it can serve as a refresher if you’ve worked with previous versions and want to know how HTML is used in modern websites—no more styling or layout design. You’ll also understand how to use CSS to fill in those gaps.
This book includes
- 800+ pages of expert knowledge about HTML and CSS, with an introduction JavaScript
- Detailed code listings used throughout the text and available for download
- Diagrams, charts, tables, note boxes, definitions, and background information
- Numerous illustrations and screenshots
- A comprehensive index
