web design books : HTML Pocket Reference

 

HTML Pocket Reference
(O'Reilly & Associates, 1999)

Just like the title says, this is a complete HTML guide that you can fit in your pocket. Some people call it the "Nutshell in a Nutshell." This is the book you can throw in your briefcase or bookbag and take with you on all your tagging adventures!

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Content Summary

  • The majority of the book is an alphabetical listing of HTML 4.0 tags and their attributes with explanations and browser support information.

  • Following the alphabetical tag list are two sections that provide more context for using HTML. "Tag Groups" lists tags that are related in functionality, and "Tag Structures" provides examples of how standard web page elements are constructed.

  • The book also provides several useful charts, including Character entities, Decimal to Hexadecimal Conversions, and Color Names.

Reader Comment

    "This is such a handy tool. I didn't need a lesson is building web pages, I just wanted to know what the HTML codes where and what they do. Instead of looking through hundreds of pages of text like in many other books, this book gives you a list. That's all I needed." -- Unnamed reader on amazon.com

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