HTML & CSS: The Good Parts

Preface; The Who and What of This Book; Objectives of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari?? Books Online; How to Contact O???Reilly; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Hypertext at the Core; 1.1 The Web Without Links; 1.2 URIs; Chapter 2: Working with HTML Markup; 2.1 HTML Syntax; 2.2 Rendering Modes, Flavors of HTML, and Document Type Declarations; 2.3 Beautiful Parts: Universal Attributes; 2.4 Separating Content, Structure, Presentation, and Behavior; 2.5 Browsers, Parsing, and Rendering; Chapter 3: CSS Overview; 3.1 Connecting Stylesheets to HTML Documents; 3.2 Choosing the Elements You Want to Style: Writing Selectors; 3.3 Rule Conflicts, Priority, and Precedence; 3.4 CSS Property and Value Survey; 3.5 CSS Units; 3.6 Key CSS Layout Properties; Chapter 4: Developing a Healthy Relationship with Standards; 4.1 The Broad Landscape of Web-Related Standards; 4.2 Why Web Standards?; 4.3 Taking the Middle Road: Standards-Friendliness; Chapter 5: Effective Style and Structure; 5.1 The Four Habits of Effective Stylists; 5.2 CSS Zen and the Stylist???s Experience; 5.3 Information Architecture and Web Usability; Chapter 6: Solving the Puzzle of CSS Layout; 6.1 The CSS Box Model and Element Size Control; 6.2 Quirks Mode and Strict Mode; 6.3 auto Values; 6.4 Margins, Borders, and Padding; 6.5 Element Flow; 6.6 Using the display Property to Change an Element???s Flow; 6.7 The float and clear Properties; 6.8 Implementing Multicolumn Layouts; 6.9 CSS Positioning Properties; 6.10 The visibility and z-index Properties; 6.11 Obtaining Precise Navigation Source Order and Layout; 6.12 Layout Types and Canvas Grids; Chapter 7: Working with Lists; 7.1 Ordered and Unordered Lists; 7.2 Other Uses for Lists; 7.3 Styling Navigation Elements; 7.4 Definition Lists; Chapter 8: Headings, Hyperlinks, Inline Elements, and Quotations; 8.1 Headings and Good Writing; 8.2 Styling Heading Elements; 8.3 Link Markup; 8.4 Styling Links; 8.5 Adding Semantic Value with Inline Elements; 8.6 Quotations; Chapter 9: Colors and Backgrounds; 9.1 Color Theory and Web Color Practice; 9.2 CSS Backgrounds; 9.3 Composing Background Images; 9.4 Bitmapped Copy and Fahrner Image Replacement; 9.5 Reducing Server Load with Sprites; Chapter 10: (Data) Tables; 10.1 The Disadvantages of Layout Tables; 10.2 The Parts of a Data Table; 10.3 Composing Cells; 10.4 Table Headers, Footers, and Heading Cells; Chapter 11: Images and Multimedia; 11.1 Replaced Elements; 11.2 Preparing Images for Production; 11.3 Image Production; 11.4 Working with Color Profiles; 11.5 Image Optimization; 11.6 Publishing Images; 11.7 Styling Images and Plug-in Content; 11.8 Adding Motion and Sound: Using SWFObject to Insert Flash Videos and Presentations; 11.9 Inserting Unwrapped Multimedia; Chapter 12: Web Typography; 12.1 A Brief History of Letterforms; 12.2 A Visual Glossary of Typography; 12.3 Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing; 12.4 Type Styles, Readability, and Legibility; 12.5 Sizing Type; 12.6 Working with Typefaces and Fonts; 12.7 Character Encoding in Brief; 12.8 Creating Balanced Type Treatments; 12.9 Typographical Miscellany in CSS; 12.10 The Practice of Good Web Typography; Chapter 13: Clean and Accessible Forms; 13.1 Building Effective Forms; 13.2 Assessment and Structure; 13.3 Basic Form Structure, Presentation, and Behavior; 13.4 Prototyping and Layout; 13.5 Required Fields and Other Submission Constraints; 13.6 Creating Accessible Forms; 13.7 Form Features in HTML5; Chapter 14: The Bad Parts; 14.1 The Numbing Nature of Internet Explorer (Especially IE 6); 14.2 Systemic Ugliness; 14.3 HTML???s Bad Neighborhoods and Cul-de-Sacs; 14.4 CSS Travesties; 14.5 The Awful Parts; 14.6 Picking Up the Pieces; URIs, Client-Server Architecture, and HTTP; The Underlying Client-Server Architecture; What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP; MIME Types, in Brief; Controlling Request Volume; Glossary; Colophon;