What's HTML?

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This book is designed to be a quick way to learn HTML and HTML5. It should also be used as a reference for you to look back at for refreshers and information on tags that are commonly used. This is a great resource for students and professionals that need a quick reference or wish to learn the basics of HTML and HTML5 quickly. As a computer science professor, I’ve taught hundreds of students HTML. The reason I wrote this book is help teach others HTML and HTML5. For more HTML and HTML5 information, free instructor resources, and online tutorials visit http://www.whatshtml.com.

A CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) reference guide are included in the appendix for quick references. The idea behind this book is to learn just enough to be extremely effective in HTML and CSS, and know how/where to lookup and find the rest of the information. John Rouda has been teaching HTML at the college level for more than 10 years so he is able to explain things in a simple to understand way for folks with zero computer science knowledge. He does an excellent job of explaining basic terms, like browser, and has a great history of the Internet section.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 – What’s HTML?

Chapter 2 – Getting the basics

Chapter 3 – In your HEAD

Chapter 4 – Text and Stuff

Chapter 5 – Anchor’s Away

Chapter 6 – Picture Perfect

Chapter 7 – Lists and More Lists

Chapter 8 – It’s all about Style

Chapter 9 – iFrames, Divs, and Tables

Chapter 10 – Simple Forms

Chapter 11 – HTML5

About the Author

Appendix A – HTML Reference

Appendix B – CSS Reference

Appendix C – HTML Entities