HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide

From the Publisher: HTML! XHTML! Cascading Style Sheets! Standards for writing web pages are hard to sort out, especially because various versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer differ in their implementations. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide brings it all together for you. The authors search out the standards and the browser features and give you concrete advice on creating web pages for the broadest possible range of audiences and platforms. Learning HTML or XHTML is like learning any other language. Most students first immerse themselves in examples. Studying what others do makes learning easy and fun, but imitation can take you only so far. It's as easy to learn bad habits through imitation as it is to acquire good ones. The better way to achieve fluency is through a comprehensive reference that covers language syntax, semantics, and variations and helps you distinguish between good and bad usage. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide helps you both ways: the authors cover every element of the two standards in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. Many hints about style help you write documents ranging from simple online manuals to complex marketing presentations. With hundreds of examples, the book gives you models for writing effective web pages and mastering advanced features.