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    Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
    Dedication
    A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
    Praise for Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
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    Authors of Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
    How to use This Book: Intro
    1. Getting to Know HTML: The Language of the Web
    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
    How forms work
    How forms work in the browser
    What you write in XHTML
    What the browser creates
    How the form element works
    What can go in a form?
    What can go in a form? (Part II)
    Getting ready to build the Bean Machine form
    Figuring out what goes in the form element
    Adding the form element
    How form element names work
    Back to getting those <input> elements into your XHTML
    A form-al test drive
    Adding some more input elements to your form
    Adding the <select> element
    Test driving the <select> element
    Give the customer a choice of whole or ground beans
    Punching the radio buttons
    Completing the form
    Adding the checkboxes and text area
    The final test drive
    Watching GET in action
    To Table or Not to Table? That’s the question...
    Getting the form elements into a table
    Test driving a very tabular form
    Styling the form and the table with CSS
    The final test drive
    What more could possibly go into a form?
    Congratulations! You made it to the end
    A. Leftovers: The Top Ten Topics (we didn’t cover)
    Index
    About the Authors
    Copyright
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