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<p>Introduction xxxiii</p> <p><b>Chapter 1: Structuring Documents for the Web 1</b></p> <p>A Web of Structured Documents 1</p> <p>Introducing HTML5 2</p> <p>Attribute Groups 9</p> <p>Core Elements 13</p> <p>Basic Text Formatting 17</p> <p>Understanding Block and Inline Elements 24</p> <p>Grouping Content 25</p> <p>Working with Lists 30</p> <p>Summary 35</p> <p><b>Chapter 2: Fine-tuning Your Text 39</b></p> <p>Elements That Describe Text-Level Semantics 39</p> <p>Editing Text 49</p> <p>Using Character Entities for Special Characters 51</p> <p>Comments 51</p> <p>Summary 52</p> <p><b>Chapter 3: Links and Navigation 55</b></p> <p>Basic Links 56</p> <p>Understanding Directories and Directory Structures 60</p> <p>Understanding URLs 61</p> <p>Creating In-Page Links with the <a> Element 65</p> <p>Advanced E-mail Links 74</p> <p>Summary 75</p> <p><b>Chapter 4: Images, Audio, and Video 79</b></p> <p>Adding Images Using the <img> Element 80</p> <p>Using Images as Links 84</p> <p>Choosing the Right Image Format 85</p> <p>Adding Flash, Video, and Audio to Your Web Pages 95</p> <p>Summary 106</p> <p><b>Chapter 5: Tables 111</b></p> <p>Introducing Tables 111</p> <p>Adding a Caption to a Table 122</p> <p>Grouping Sections of a Table 123</p> <p>Nested Tables 129</p> <p>Accessible Tables 130</p> <p>Summary 135</p> <p><b>Chapter 6: Forms 139</b></p> <p>Introducing Forms 140</p> <p>Creating a Form with the <form> Element 143</p> <p>Form Controls 145</p> <p>Creating a Contact Form 172</p> <p>Creating Labels for Controls and the <label> Element 174</p> <p>Structuring Your Forms with <fieldset> and <legend> Elements 176</p> <p>Focus 177</p> <p>Disabled and Read-Only Controls 181</p> <p>Sending Form Data to the Server 183</p> <p>Creating More Usable Form Fields 185</p> <p>Summary 187</p> <p><b>Chapter 7: Cascading Style Sheets 191</b></p> <p>Introducing CSS 192</p> <p>Where You Can Add CSS Rules 197</p> <p>CSS Properties 201</p> <p>Controlling Text 203</p> <p>Text Formatting 210</p> <p>Text Pseudo-Classes 220</p> <p>Styling Text 221</p> <p>Selectors 224</p> <p>Lengths 231</p> <p>Introducing the Box Model 233</p> <p>Creating a Style Sheet for Code 248</p> <p>Summary 252</p> <p><b>Chapter 8: More Cascading Style Sheets 257</b></p> <p>Links 258</p> <p>Backgrounds 259</p> <p>Lists 267</p> <p>Tables 271</p> <p>Outlines 280</p> <p>The :focus and :active Pseudo-Classes 282</p> <p>Generated Content 283</p> <p>Miscellaneous Properties 288</p> <p>Additional Rules 291</p> <p>Positioning and Layout with CSS 293</p> <p>Summary 308</p> <p><b>Chapter 9: Rounded Corners, Animations, Custom Fonts, and More with Css3 311</b></p> <p>The Modular Approach of CSS 3 312</p> <p>Mature CSS3 Modules 312</p> <p>New and In-Development Modules 326</p> <p>Summary 336</p> <p><b>Chapter 10: Learning Javascript 339</b></p> <p>What Is Programming About? 340</p> <p>How to Add a Script to Your Pages 343</p> <p>Create an External JavaScript 345</p> <p>The Document Object Model 346</p> <p>Starting to Program with JavaScript 347</p> <p>Variables 349</p> <p>Operators 351</p> <p>Functions 354</p> <p>Conditional Statements 357</p> <p>Looping 360</p> <p>Events 363</p> <p>Built-in Objects 364</p> <p>Writing JavaScript 377</p> <p>Summary 380</p> <p><b>Chapter 11: Working with Jquery 383</b></p> <p>Why jQuery? 384</p> <p>Adding jQuery to Your Page 384</p> <p>jQuery Basics 386</p> <p>jQuery and the DOM 387</p> <p>Managing Events with jQuery 397</p> <p>Summary 403</p> <p><b>Chapter 12: JQuery: Beyond the Basics 407</b></p> <p>Ajax with jQuery 407</p> <p>jQuery UI 420</p> <p>Summary 433</p> <p><b>Chapter 13: Checklists 437</b></p> <p>Search Engine Optimization Checklist 437</p> <p>Accessibility Checklist 441</p> <p><b>Appendix A: Answers to Exercises 447</b></p> <p>Chapter 1 447</p> <p>Chapter 2 448</p> <p>Chapter 3 449</p> <p>Chapter 4 451</p> <p>Chapter 5 454</p> <p>Chapter 6 455</p> <p>Chapter 7 458</p> <p>Chapter 8 463</p> <p>Chapter 9 466</p> <p>Chapter 10 468</p> <p>Chapter 11 470</p> <p>Chapter 12 472</p> <p>Chapter 13 474</p> <p><b>Appendix B: Html Element Reference 475</b></p> <p><b>Appendix C: CSS Properties 515</b></p> <p>Font Properties 515</p> <p>Text Properties 518</p> <p>Color and Background Properties 521</p> <p>Border Properties 523</p> <p>Dimensions 525</p> <p>Margin Properties 528</p> <p>Padding Properties 528</p> <p>List Properties 529</p> <p>Positioning Properties 531</p> <p>Outline Properties 534</p> <p>Table Properties 535</p> <p>Classification Properties 537</p> <p>Internationalization Properties 538</p> <p>Selected CSS3 Properties 539</p> <p>Lengths 548</p> <p><b>Appendix D: Color Names and Values 551</b></p> <p>Using Hex Codes to Specify Colors 551</p> <p>Understanding Hex Codes 553</p> <p>Using Color Names to Specify Colors 554</p> <p>Color Name and Number Reference 555</p> <p><b>Appendix E: Character Encodings 561</b></p> <p><b>Appendix F: Special Characters 565</b></p> <p>Character Entity References for ISO 8859-1 Characters 566</p> <p>Character Entity References for Symbols, Mathematical Symbols, and Greek Letters 570</p> <p>Character Entity References for Markup-Significant and Internationalization Characters 575</p> <p><b>Appendix G: Language Codes 577</b></p> <p><b>Appendix H: Mime Media Types 583</b></p> <p>Text 584</p> <p>Image 585</p> <p>Multipart 586</p> <p>Audio 586</p> <p>Video 588</p> <p>Message 589</p> <p>Model 590</p> <p>Application 590</p> <p><b>Appendix I: Changes Between Html4 and Html5 595</b></p> <p>New Elements 595</p> <p>New <input> Element Types 596</p> <p>New Attributes 597</p> <p>Global Attributes 598</p> <p>Changed Attributes 598</p> <p>Obsolete Elements 600</p> <p>Obsolete Attributes 600</p> <p>At-Risk Elements 602</p> <p>Index 603</p>

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