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A Beginners Guide

Fifth Edition

Wendy Willard

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To Corinna and Caelithat you might remember your mom once knew some cool stuff, even when HTML becomes for you what eight-track tapes are to me. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Luke 21:33

About the Author

Wendy Willard is a designer, consultant, writer, and educator who has been involved in web design and development for more than 17 years. She has published on HTML, CSS, web design, and Photoshop. Shes previously held the titles of Art Director, Creative Director, and Marketing Manager at firms in the Northeast, and now freelances for companies worldwide. Wendy has a degree in Illustration from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and splits her time between Maine, Maryland, and Nicaragua, with her husband and two daughters.

About the Technical Editor

Christie Sorenson is a senior software engineer at ZingChart. She has worked on JavaScript-based systems in analytics, content management, and business applications since 1997 and has been fascinated with the evolution of the language and its users. She has collaborated on several books, including Ajax: The Complete Reference and HTML & CSS: The Complete Reference and was also the tech editor on JavaScript: The Complete Reference and JavaScript: A Beginners Guide. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and now lives in San Francisco with her husband Luke and daughters Ali and Keira.

Contents at a Glance

Contents

Acknowledgments

A s always, Im so grateful to everyone at McGraw-Hill Education for making it easy to write and update this book. This edition underwent a pretty significant overhaul, which meant it needed a careful and dedicated technical editor. Thankfully, Christie fulfilled that role beautifully.

Because I wrote this revision during the first three months after my family and I moved to Nicaragua for a year, I cannot forget to acknowledge the various friends and family who helped make it happen. The support, prayers, and encouragement we received were instrumental in getting our familys grand adventure off to a successful start.

And finally, Wyeth, Corinna, and Caeliyou are my inspiration and my reward. I am humbled and honored to be able to share this adventure with you.

Introduction

W hen I was first approached about writing this bookover 13 years ago nowI must admit that my thought was, Another HTML bookhow many do we need? I learned HTML by experience when there was only one version of Netscape, and it had been a long time since Id even looked at an HTML book. But after I researched the other HTML books on the market, I felt compelled to write a book that gives readers a realistic, easy-to-understand approach to learning HTML while at the same time offering real-world practice activities and advice on related issues.

HTML: A Beginners Guide is that book, offering you practical tools and knowledge that can easily be applied to a variety of development situations, without the boring rhetoric or lengthy technical fluff. This book tells you what you need to know, when you need to know it. In revising this book for the fifth edition, I again reviewed competing books to determine what readers wanted and needed in a new HTML book. Again and again, I saw that you wanted a book that combined an explanation of HTML5 and the latest aspects of CSS in a way that was easy to understand and use. Furthermore, readers clamored for a beginning-level HTML book that covered the standards-compliant way to code usable web pages. This is that book.

Who Should Read This Book

Since this book is geared toward anyone with little or no prior HTML knowledge, its perfect for anyone wishing to learn HTML. If you are a stay-at-home mom who wants to create a web site for your family without relying on half-baked tools or cookie-cutter templates, youve come to the right place. If you are a business professional seeking to acquire web development skills, this is the book for you. If you are interested in learning HTML to further your programming skills, this book is for you.