- Introduction to HTML
Gathering equipment - text editors and web browsers
Making sense of HTML - elements, tags and attributes
Basic structure of an HTML document
Creating your first HTML document with declarations, header, metadata and title
HTML comments
2. Web page structure with HTML5 tags
Adding HTML sections
Adding HTML articles
Creating HTML navigation
Creating an HTML sidebar
Creating an HTML content header
Creating an HTML footer
3. HTML text markup tags
Breaking text into paragraphs
Adding HTML headings
Formatting text with HTML
Creating an ordered list
Creating an unordered list
Creating a description list
Using HTML quotations
4. HTML hyperlinks
Understanding URLs
Using absolute URLs
Using relative URLs
Creating hyperlink anchors
Adding hyperlink targets
Creating a hyperlink to an e-mail address
5. Adding images to an HTML page
Adding images to a web page
Creating image links
Creating thumbnail image links
Creating an image map
Marking up an image as a figure
6. HTML tables
Creating an HTML table
Adjusting the padding and spacing in a table's cells
Creating table headings
Adding a caption to a table
Forming the body of a table
Spanning cells across rows and columns
Creating a table footer
7. HTML forms
Building a simple HTML form
Labelling HTML form controls
Adding buttons to an HTML form
Adding a selection box to an HTML form
Using HTML controls
Adding more HTML form controls
8. Using HTML attributes to tweak forms
Adding placeholder text in HTML form controls
Setting a field to autofocus
What doesn't work
Some final thoughts on HTML5
9. CSS3 - what's new?
Finding documentation on CSS
Finding out what's new in CSS3
10. Introduction to CSS
Prepping for CSS
Understanding CSS code
Creating CSS comments
Understanding classes and IDs
11. Specifying CSS styles
Creating an external style sheet
Creating an internal style sheet
Creating an inline style sheet
12. Setting borders with CSS
Adding a border to an element
Creating borders using separate lines
Creating rounded corners on a border
Using an image as a border
13. Formatting colours and backgrounds with CSS
Choosing a colour palette
Specifying CSS colours four ways
Setting foreground and background colours
Setting background images
14. Formatting fonts and text with CSS
Setting an element&anbsp; Setting an element's font style
Setting a font's weight and size
Setting font properties by using the font declaration
Decorating text and changing case
Aligning text
Formatting text using word and letter spacing
Adding drop shadows to text
15. CSS margins, padding and element size
Setting an element's padding
Setting an element's margins
Setting relative width and height
Setting absolute width and height
16. Positioning elements using CSS
Positioning elements with float and clear
Absolute positioning of elements
Relative positioning of elements
Fixed positioning of elements
Layering elements using CSS
17. Some final thoughts on CSS
Creating a navigation bar from an ordered list
Setting sidebar properties
Cleaning up text and adding white space
Appendix 1: List of HTML tags used in this book
Appendix 2: List of CSS properties covered in this book
Appendix 3: CSS colour names and numeric values
Jargon buster
Troubleshooting guide
Brilliant Html5 & Css3 (Brilliant Computing)
- Authors
- Josh Hill, James A. Brannen
- ISBN
- 0273747126
- Published
- 19 Aug 2011
- Purchase online
- amazon.com
1. Introduction to HTMLGathering equipment - text editors and web browsersMaking sense of HTML - elements, tags and attributesBasic structure of an HTML documentCreating your first HTML document with declarations, header, metadata and titleHTML comments2. Web page structure with HTML5 tagsAdding HTML sectionsAdding HTML articlesCreating HTML navigationCreating an HTML sidebarCreating an HTML content headerCreating an HTML footer3.
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