HTML & CSS The Good Parts

Preface

1. Hypertext at the Core
-The Web Without Links
-URIs

2. Working with HTML Markup
-HTML Syntax
-Rendering Modes, Flavors of HTML, and Document Type Declarations
-Beautiful Parts: Universal Attributes
-Separating Content, Structure, Presentation, and Behavior
-Browsers, Parsing, and Rendering

3. CSS Overview
-Connecting Stylesheets to HTML Documents
-Choosing the Elements You Want to Style: Writing Selectors
-Rule Conflicts, Priority, and Precedence
-CSS Property and Value Survey
-CSS Units
-Key CSS Layout Properties

4. Developing a Healthy Relationship with Standards
-The Broad Landscape of Web-Related Standards
-Why Web Standards?
-Taking the Middle Road: Standards-Friendliness

5. Effective Style and Structure
-The Four Habits of Effective Stylists
-CSS Zen and the Stylist's Experience
-Information Architecture and Web Usability

6. Solving the Puzzle of CSS Layout
-The CSS Box Model and Element Size Control
-Quirks Mode and Strict Mode
-auto Values
-Margins, Borders, and Padding
-Element Flow
-Using the display Property to Change an Element's Flow
-The float and clear Properties
-Implementing Multicolumn Layouts
-CSS Positioning Properties
-The visibility and z-index Properties
-Obtaining Precise Navigation Source Order and Layout
-Layout Types and Canvas Grids

7. Working with Lists
-Ordered and Unordered Lists
-Other Uses for Lists
-Styling Navigation Elements
-Definition Lists

8. Headings, Hyperlinks, Inline Elements, and Quotations
-Headings and Good Writing
-Styling Heading Elements
-Link Markup
-Styling Links
-Adding Semantic Value with Inline Elements
-Quotations

9. Colors and Backgrounds
-Color Theory and Web Color Practice
-CSS Backgrounds
-Composing Background Images
-Bitmapped Copy and Fahrner Image Replacement
-Reducing Server Load with Sprites

10. (Data) Tables
-The Disadvantages of Layout Tables
-The Parts of a Data Table
-Composing Cells
-Table Headers, Footers, and Heading Cells

11. Images and Multimedia
-Replaced Elements
-Preparing Images for Production
-Image Production
-Working with Color Profiles
-Image Optimization
-Publishing Images
-Styling Images and Plug-in Content
-Adding Motion and Sound: Using SWFObject to Insert Flash Videos and -Presentations
-Inserting Unwrapped Multimedia

12. Web Typography
-A Brief History of Letterforms
-A Visual Glossary of Typography
-Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing
-Type Styles, Readability, and Legibility
-Sizing Type
-Working with Typefaces and Fonts
-Character Encoding in Brief
-Creating Balanced Type Treatments
-Typographical Miscellany in CSS
-The Practice of Good Web Typography

13. Clean and Accessible Forms
-Building Effective Forms
-Assessment and Structure
-Basic Form Structure, Presentation, and Behavior
-Prototyping and Layout
-Required Fields and Other Submission Constraints
-Creating Accessible Forms
-Form Features in HTML5

14. The Bad Parts
-The Numbing Nature of Internet Explorer (Especially IE 6)
-Systemic Ugliness
-HTML's Bad Neighborhoods and Cul-de-Sacs
-CSS Travesties
-The Awful Parts
-Picking Up the Pieces

Appendix: URIs, Client-Server Architecture, and HTTP

Glossary

Index