HTML Manual of Style: A Clear, Concise Reference for Hypertext Markup Language (Including HTML5)

Acknowledgments xii About the Author xiii Preface xiv Chapter 1 HTML and the Web 2 HTML: The Language of the Web 3 A Bit of Web History 7 Hypertext Content and Online Media 11 Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) 11 Web Browsers and Servers 12 The Web Bestiary 15 HTML5 and Web Standards 19 Do We All Have to Learn HTML5 Now? 21 Chapter 2 The HTML Language 24 Language Overview 25 Page Structure and the DOM 31 HTML5 Syntax 35 Comments 35 Character Entities 36 Markup Elements 37 HTML5 Semantics 40 HTML Attributes 51 Event Handlers 55 Block Elements 57 Headings 57 Paragraphs, Block Quotes, and Address Blocks 61 Lists 67 Division and Section Elements 73 Tables 77 Links and Anchors 85 Uniform Resource Locators 86 Anchor States 88 Anchor Attributes 89 Inline Images 90 Audio and Video 95 Input Forms 99 The HTML5 Canvas 110 Chapter 3 Elements of Style 114 Cascading Style Sheets 115 CSS Selectors 119 Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements 124 Typography 128 Font Style 131 Font Weight 131 Font Variant 132 Font Size 132 Font 136 Colors 138 Background Properties 141 Text Properties 144 text-align 144 text-decoration 144 text-indent 146 text-transform 146 line-height 146 Letter and Word Spacing 148 white space 150 vertical-align 150 Box Properties 152 Height and Width 153 Margins and Padding 154 Borders 157 List Styles 161 CSS Positioning 166 Other CSS Properties 171 Display and Visibility 172 Overflow 177 Float and Clear 177 Chapter 4 Using HTML 180 Tools of the Trade 182 Blogging 185 Google Docs 192 eBay Selling 198 Wikipedia 200 HTML Email 203 Chapter 5 Building Websites 208 Development Approaches 209 Content or Service Site? 211 Static or Dynamic Content? 212 Target Audience 212 Money 213 The Future 214 Websites 215 cgi-bin 218 logs 219 public_html 220 Other Website Files 221 Organization and Navigation 224 Files and Directories 224 Page Layout 225 Navigation 228 Imagemaps 235 Toggles and Accordions 237 Tabbed Content Sections 240 Opening New Windows 246 Page Head Information 249 meta

Larry Aronson is a systems engineer who helps people and computers understand each other better and work together more productively. He designs, builds, and maintains websites, and consults with individuals and small businesses. Aronson wrote the original HTML Manual of Style, one of the first bestselling HTML books. He cochaired the New York Macintosh Users' Group's Internet SIG in the '80s, cofounded the World Wide Web Artists' Consortium in the '90s, and is a founding member of the Social Media Club.