HTML: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

By Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
Second Edition   
Pages: 552
ISBN 10: 1-56592-235-2 | ISBN 13: 9781565922358
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This complete guide is chock full of examples, sample code, and practical, hands-on advice to help you create truly effective web pages and master advanced features. Learn how to insert images and other multimedia elements, create useful links and searchable documents, use Netscape extensions, design great forms, and lots more. The second edition covers the most widely used version of the HTML standard (HTML version 3.2), many features in HTML 4.0, Netscape 4.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0, plus all the common extensions.
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Netscape Navigator 4.0! Internet Explorer 4.0! HTML 3.2! JavaScript! Style sheets! Layers! HTML is changing so fast it's almost impossible to keep up with developments. How do you know what's real, and how do you use it? This book brings it all together for you. HTML: The Definitive Guide is the most comprehensive book available on HTML today. It covers the latest standard, HTML 3.2, and all of the features supported by every popular Web browser, including the latest editions of Netscape and Internet Explorer. Learning HTML is like learning any new language, computer or human. Most students first immerse themselves in examples. Studying others is a natural way to learn, making learning easy and fun. Imitation can take you only so far, though. It's as easy to learn bad habits through imitation as it is to acquire good ones. The better way to become HTML-fluent is through a comprehensive reference that covers the language syntax, semantics, and variations in detail and helps you distinguish between good and bad usage. HTML: The Definitive Guide helps you both ways: the authors cover every element of HTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. Many hints about HTML style help you accomplish a variety of tasks, from simple online documentation to complex marketing and sales presentations. With hundreds of examples, the book gives you models for writing your own effective Web pages and mastering advanced features, like style sheets and frames. HTML: The Definitive Guide shows you how to:
  • Use style sheets and layers to control a document's appearance
  • Create tables, from simple to complex
  • Use Netscape's frames to coordinate sets of documents
  • Design and build interactive forms
  • Insert images, sound files, video, applets, and JavaScript programs
  • Create dynamic documents with server-push and client-pull
A handy quick reference card listing HTML tags is included.

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HTML: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Review,  September 01 1998
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The book is representative of your outstanding publishing effort. I have only one suggestion. If you are going to publish stuff this good can you improve the binding? If your books were less useful it wouldn't be a problem.


HTML: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Review,  July 03 1998
Submitted by Andrei   [Respond | View]



nice book, but i'm sorry, what this book isn't online-version now !


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Media reviews "My copy of this book has been stolen! I work with a group of people that code in HTML every day. A number of them have purchased O'Reilly and Associates HTML: The Definitive Guide after comparing it to a number of others available (but I was the first, so the glory goes to me).

"Unfortunately, my copy has been stolen (even thieves know which book is best), and I have been struggling ever since; no other HTML book holds a torch to this one. It's not only good for learning new information, but also for refreshers and for use as a quick reference. Looking at other HTML books is always disappointing after using this one. The chapters on frames and tables are especially good. "If you want to get better at HTML, and have fun doing it, this is the book for you. I have almost given up hope that mine will return, and may have to buy a new copy. Then I will be truly happy once more."

-- Dave Brewer, posted on Amazon.com, June 1997

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