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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

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How to use This Book: Intro

1. Getting to Know HTML: The Language of the Web

The Web Video killed the radio star

What does the Web server do?

What does the Web browser do?

What you write (the HTML)...

What the browser creates...

Your big break at Starbuzz Coffee

Creating the Starbuzz Web page

Creating an HTML file (Mac)

Creating an HTML file (Windows)

Meanwhile, back at Starbuzz Coffee...

Saving your work...

Opening your Web page in a browser

Taking your page for a test drive...

Are we there yet?

Another test drive...

Tags dissected...

Meet the style element

Giving Starbuzz some style...

Cruisin’ with style...

2. Going Further, with Hypertext: Meeting the ‘HT’ in HTML

3. Building Blocks: Web Page Construction

4. Getting Connected: A Trip to Webville

5. Adding Images to Your Pages: Meeting the Media

6. Standards, Compliance, and all that Jazz: Serious HTML

7. Moving to XHTML: Putting an ‘X’ into HTML

8. Getting Started with CSS: Adding a Little Style

9. Styling with Fonts and Colors: Expanding your Vocabulary

10. The Box Model: Getting Intimate with Elements

11. Divs and Spans: Advanced Web Construction

12. Layout and Positioning: Arranging Elements

13. Tables and More Lists: Getting Tabular

14. XHTML Forms: Getting Interactive

A. Leftovers: The Top Ten Topics (we didn’t cover)

Index

About the Authors

Opening your Web page in a browser

Are you ready to open your first Web page? Using your favorite browser, choose “Open File...” (or “Open...” using Windows XP and Internet Explorer) from the File menu and navigate to your “index.html” file. Select it and click “Open”.

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