Introducing HTML

History of HTML
What’s new in HTML 4
Addressing web pages
Absolute and relative addresses
Fragment addresses
Document type definitions
HTML document structure
Hello World
HTML tools
Microsoft FrontPage
HTML authoring tips

The document head

Inside the head
Document title
Meta information
Character encoding
Search-engine meta data
Custom meta data
Adding scripts
Adding stylesheets
Linking resources

Body text content

The document body
Content in paragraphs
Forcing line breaks
Quotes and block quotes
Headings
Emphasising text
Text formatting
Preformatted text
Subscript and superscript
Contact address
Displaying code in text
Advisory tags
Delete and insert

Adding style to content

About tag attributes
Using tag attributes
A first stylesheet
Styling tags
Styling with class
Styling with identity
Colours
Applying colour style
Dividing content
Centring with style
Inline styling

Lists and entities

Unordered lists
Bullet point styles
Ordered lists
Numbering styles
Definition lists
Horizontal rule
Character entities

Making tables

A simple table
Formatting cells
Positioning the table
Adding rows
Spanning rows
Spanning columns
Header and footer
Cell content alignment
Cell style
Table frame and rules
Grouping columns
Column widths
Summary attribute

Hyperlinks and anchors

Creating hyperlinks
Following links
Fragment anchors
Link to element
Link title tool tip
Link to protocol
Images as hyperlinks
Image map hyperlinks
Mapping coordinates

Embedding contents

Add an image
Images with maps
Objects and mime types
Embed an image object
Embed a text file object
Embed a HTML object
Embed a Java applet
Add applet parameters
Embedding multimedia
QuickTime media player
Real media player
Flash movie player

Using frames

The frame holder document
Two-column frameset
Two-row frameset
Nested frameset
Frame appearance
Frame targets
Alternative content

Creating forms

A simple form
Submission information
Text inputs
Password inputs
Checkboxes
Radio buttons
File inputs
Hidden inputs
Push buttons
Reset buttons
Submit buttons
Image submit button
Buttons with graphics
Using labels
Text areas
Tab order
Selection menus
Grouping menus
Grouping form fields

Borders and margins

The content box
Background and border colour
Border style
Border width
Border shorthand
Add padding
Relative padding
Padding shorthand
Set margins
Margin shorthand
Putting it together

Positioning content boxes

XYZ coordinates
Absolute positioning
Z-order
Relative positioning
Floating boxes
Clear side
Content box resize
Overflow
Clipping overflow

Stylish text

Font families
Font size
Font style
Font weight
Font variant
Line height
Font shorthand
Text and content alignment
Text decoration
Indenting text
Letter spacing
Word spacing
Text direction
Right-to-left style
Text capitalisation

List and table styles

List style types
List style position
List style image
List style shorthand
Table caption side
Collapsing table borders
Empty cell borders

Styling backgrounds

Background colour
Background image
Background repeat
Background position
Background attachment
Background shorthand
Visibility
Cursors
Hyperlink colours
Additional content
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