ix Intro Your brain on HTML and CSS. Here
you are trying to
learn something, while
here your
brain is doing you a favor by making sure the learning doesn’t
stick . Your brain’s
thinking, “Better leave room for more important things, like which wild animals to avoid
and whether naked snowboarding is a bad idea.” So how
do you trick your brain into
thinking that your life depends on knowing HTML and CSS?
Table of Contents (summary) Intro
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1
The Language of the Web: getting to know html 1
2
Meet the “HT” in HTML: going further, with hypertext 43
3
Web Page Construction: building blocks 77
4
A Trip to Webville: getting connected 123
5
Meeting the Media: adding images to your pages 163
6
Serious HTML: standards and all that jazz 219
7
Adding a Little Style: getting started with CSS 255
8
Expanding your Vocabulary: styling with fonts and colors 311
9
Getting Intimate with Elements: the box model 361
10 Advanced Web Construction: divs and spans 413
11 Arranging Elements: layout and positioning 471
12 Modern HTML: html5 markup 545
13 Getting Tabular: tables and more lists 601
14 Getting Interactive: html forms 645
Appendix: The Top Ten Topics (We Didn’t Cover): leftovers 697
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