HTML and CSS: The Comprehensive Guide

  • 11h 26m
  • Jürgen Wolf
  • Rheinwerk Publishing Inc.
  • 2023

Web developers—this is your all-in-one guide to HTML and CSS! Learn to use HTML to format text and structure web pages. Understand the HTML document skeleton before creating forms, referencing hyperlinks, embedding active content, and more. Then style your pages with CSS: Create consistent designs with selectors, the box model, the cascade algorithm, and inheritance. Round out your client-side development experience by getting to know JavaScript. With detailed code examples, you’ll master HTML and CSS in no time!

  • Your complete guide to HTML5 and CSS3
  • Build HTML documents, design with CSS, and get a hands-on introduction to JavaScript basics
  • Create responsive layouts, work with graphics and video, and more

  1. HTML for Formatting and Structure Master HTML syntax and document structure. Work with tags, elements, and attributes to build HTML documents. Create tables and forms, embed images, configure links, and develop interactive HTML elements.
  2. CSS for Style and Design Develop simple and complex web layouts with CSS rules, selectors, declarations, combinators, pseudoclasses, and pseudoelements. Understand the principles of cascading, specificity, and inheritance. Learn to use the CSS box model, the position property, and more.
  3. JavaScript Fundamentals Expand your knowledge with an introduction to JavaScript. See how to use variables, statements, functions, arrays, and objects to write and run simple programs. Explore the basics of Ajax for interactive web application design.

Highlights include:

  • HTML syntax and structure
  • HTML elements
  • Tables, links, and images
  • HTML forms
  • CSS selectors
  • Cascade and inheritance
  • CSS box model
  • CSS preprocessors
  • Responsive layout design
  • Testing
  • JavaScript
  • Ajax

About the Author

Jürgen Wolf is a web and software developer and the author of several seminal works about programming and photography.

In this Book

  • Introduction to the HTML Universe
  • Basic Structure of HTML and HTML Documents
  • Head Data of an HTML Document
  • The Visible Part of an HTML Document
  • Tables and Hyperlinks
  • Graphics and Multimedia
  • HTML Forms and Interactive Elements
  • Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
  • The Selectors of CSS
  • Inheritance and Cascading
  • The Box Model of CSS
  • CSS Positioning
  • Creating Responsive Layouts with CSS
  • Styling with CSS
  • Testing and Organizing
  • The CSS Preprocessor Sass and SCSS
  • A Brief Introduction to JavaScript
  • Arrays, Functions, and Objects in JavaScript
  • Changing Web Pages Dynamically
  • An Introduction to Ajax
  • Service Pages
  • Legal Notes
  • The Document Archive
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