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how to use this
book
This
is a learning experience, not a reference book. We deliberately stripped out
everything that might get in the way of learning whatever it is we’re working on at that
point in the book. And the first time through, you
need to begin at the beginning, because
the book makes assumptions about what you’ve already seen and learned.
We begin by teaching basic HTML, then standards-based HTML5.
To write standards-based HTML, there are a lot of technical
details you need to
understand that aren’t helpful when you’re trying to learn the basics of HTML. Our
approach is to have you learn the basic concepts of HTML first (without worrying about
these details), and then, when you have a solid understanding of HTML,
teach you to
write standards-compliant HTML (the most recent version of which is HTML5). This
has the added benefit that the technical details are more meaningful after you’ve already
learned the basics.
It’s also important that you be writing compliant HTML when you start using CSS, so we
make a point of getting you to standards-based HTML before
you begin any serious work
with CSS.
We don’t cover every single HTML element or attribute or CSS
property ever created.
There are a
lot of HTML elements,
a lot of attributes, and
a lot of CSS properties. Sure,
they’re
all interesting, but our goal was to write a book that weighs less than the person
reading it, so we don’t cover them all here. Our focus is on the core HTML elements and
CSS properties that
matter to you,
the beginner, and making sure that you really, truly,
deeply understand how and when to use them. In any case, once you’re done with
Head
First HTML and CSS, you’ll be able to pick up any reference book and get up to speed
quickly on all the elements and properties we left out.
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