Essential XHTML fast

Headings 34 Line breaks 35 Inserting lines 36 Colours and Fonts : 37 Settingthebackground colour 38 Settingthetextcolour 38 Setting thefont 39 Lists 39 Nesting lists 41 Definition lists 42 5. CREATING LINKS 45 Introduction 46 WhatisaURL? 46 The protocol identifier 47 The Web server 47 The folder and filename 47 The aelement 48 Absolute and relative URLs 48 Absolute URLs 48 Relative URLs 49 Server relative URLs 51 Linkswithinadocument 51 Email links 52 6. CREATING AND USING TABLES 53 Introduction 54 Creating tables 54 Formatting tables 57 Formattingcells 62 The align and valign attributes 62 The colspan and rowspan attributes 63 Grouping table elements 64 The colgroup element. . 67 Style sheets 68 7. WORKING WITH IMAGES 69 Introduction 70 Image Formats 70 GIF files 70 lPEG files 72 PNG files 72 Which format should Iuse? 73 Minimizing filesize 73 Displaying images 74 Linking from an image 75 Image maps 75 Defining Rectangles 77 Defining Circles 78 Defining Polygons 78 Definingthedefault region 78 Activating themap 79 Client and Server side maps 79 8. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS 81 Introduction 82 Typesofstyle sheets 83 Embedding astyle sheet 83 Style sheet codes 84 Linking toastyle sheet 86 Applying stylestomore than one element. . . 88 In-line formatting 89 Classes and IDs : 89 Creating and using IDs 90 Creating and using classes 91 Creating astyle sheet.

1. Why Do I Need XHTML?.- Why switch to XHTML?.- What do I need?.- Is this book for you?.- How to use this book.- Don’t type!.- 2. XML And XHTML.- HTML versions.- What is XML?.- What is XHTML?.- Tags, elements and attributes.- XML rules.- What is JavaScript?.- Getting started.- 3. Creating XHTML Documents.- Starting an XHTML document.- The XML statement.- The DOCTYPE statement.- The namespace declaration.- Combining namespaces.- The html element.- White space.- The head element.- The title element.- The meta element.- The base element.- The body element.- Validating the document.- The p element.- Other paragraph types.- 4. Formatting Documents.- Headings.- Line breaks.- Inserting lines.- Colours and Fonts.- Setting the background colour.- Setting the text colour.- Setting the font.- Lists.- Nesting lists.- Definition lists.- 5. Creating Links.- What is a URL?.- The protocol identifier.- The Web server.- The folder and filename.- The a element.- Absolute and relative URLs.- Absolute URLs.- Relative URLs.- Server relative URLs.- Links within a document.- Email links.- 6. Creating And Using Tables.- Creating tables.- Formatting tables.- Formatting cells.- The align and valign attributes.- The colspan and rowspan attributes.- Grouping table elements.- The colgroup element.- Style sheets.- 7. Working With Images.- Image Formats.- GIF files.- JPEG files.- PNG files.- Which format should I use?.- Minimizing file size.- Displaying images.- Linking from an image.- Image maps.- Defining Rectangles.- Defining Circles.- Defining Polygons.- Defining the default region.- Activating the map.- Client and Server side maps.- 8. Cascading Style Sheets.- Types of style sheets.- Embedding a style sheet.- Style sheet codes.- Linking to a style sheet.- Applying styles to more than one element.- In-line formatting.- Classes and IDs.- Creating and using IDs.- Creating and using classes.- Creating a style sheet.- Font properties.- Font characteristics.- Text properties.- The margin property.- Colour properties.- Box properties.- Changing anchor colours.- Positioning attributes.- Using layers.- Media types properties.- Changing the background.- Conflicting properties.- 9. Creating And Using Frames.- Types of frames.- Creating fixed frames.- Controlling frame size.- Creating more complex framesets.- Preventing frame resizing.- Formatting.- Scrollbars.- Frame borders.- Frame margins.- Navigation.- Special targets.- Browsers which do not support frames.- Legal problems.- In-line frames.- 10. CREATING FORMS.- Creating and using forms.- The form element.- What is sent to the server?.- Controls.- The input element.- Text field controls.- Password controls.- Checkbox controls.- Radio button controls.- File input controls.- Buttons.- The button element.- The textarea element.- List controls.- Grouping controls.- Disabling controls.- The PC buyer document.- Processing forms.- The form element.- The method attribute.- The action attribute.- Using email to process a form.- Setting the form element.- Creating the template document.- 11. Javascript and XHTML.- Java and JavaScript.- Using Java applets.- Using JavaScript.- The type attribute.- The src attribute.- The CDATA Section.- JavaScript data types.- Identifiers.- Numbers.- Integer literals.- Floating point literals.- Octal and hexadecimal literals.- Arithmetic operators.- Increment & decrement.- Shortcut operators.- Strings.- Escape sequences.- Working with strings.- Booleans.- Functions.- write and writeln.- Passing more than one value.- Scope of variables.- Declaring variables.- What’s next?.- 12. THe Javascript Language.- JavaScript errors.- Formatting JavaScript code.- Comments.- Case sensitivity.- Compound Statements.- The ifstatement.- The else clause.- The elseifclause.- The comparison operators.- The logical operators.- The && operator.- The ? operator.- The ! operator.- The switch construct.- Looping.- while loops.- do..while loops.- for loops.- for..in and with statements.- Labels.- The break statement.- The continue statement.- 13. Javascript Core Objects.- The navigator object.- Important JavaScript objects.- The Date object.- The Array object.- The for..in construct.- The with construct.- The String object.- The Math object.- 14. Handling Events.- The mouse events.- The keyboard events.- The document and window events.- The form events.- Verifying form data.- The focus events.- 15. Deprecated and Valid Elements.- Deprecated elements.- Current XHTML elements.- 16. INDEX.