HTML & CSS essentials / by Paul McFedries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McFedries, Paul, author.

Series:

--For dummies.

For dummies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HTML (Document markup language).

Cascading style sheets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

HTML and CSS essentials

HTML & CSS essentials for dummies

HTML and CSS essentials for dummies

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

The easy way to brush up on your HTML & CSS programming skills HTML & CSS Essentials For Dummies is your quick and handy reference to all the core concepts of HTML & CSS--the must-know markup and style languages that make the internet go. This no-nonsense book gets right to the point, eliminating review material, wordy explanations, and fluff. Understand all the fundamentals of HTML and CSS, quickly. Perfect for a brush-up on the basics or as an everyday desk reference on the job, this is the reliable little book you can always turn to for answers. Get simple explanations of the basic concepts of coding with HTML & CSS Review what you've already learned or pick up essential new skills Create attractive and functional front ends for websites of all kinds Keep this concise reference book handy for jogging your memory as you work This book is clear and direct, focusing on the key topics you need to know about defining a website's user interface. Great for supplementing classroom learning, reviewing for a certification, or staying knowledgeable on the job.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 1 Getting to Know HTML and CSS

Getting a Bird's-Eye View of the Process

Launching a new text file

Saving HTML files

Edit. Save. Reload. Repeat.

Getting to Know HTML

Working with HTML elements and tags

Dealing with tag attributes

A barebones HTML page

Giving your page a title

Adding some text

Getting Familiar with CSS

Understanding cascading style sheets

Styles: Bundles of formatting options

Sheets: Collections of styles

Cascading: How styles propagate

Getting comfy with CSS rules and declarations

Applying styles to a page

Inserting inline styles

Embedding an internal style sheet

Linking to an external style sheet

Chapter 2 Constructing Pages with Good Bones

Getting to Know HTML's Basic Structure Tags

Forging paragraphs

Naming page parts with headings

Giving a line a break

Structuring the Page

The &lt

header&gt

tag

nav&gt

main&gt

article&gt

section&gt

aside&gt

footer&gt

Handling non-semantic content with &lt

div&gt

Handling words and characters with &lt

span&gt

Chapter 3 Adding Links, Lists, and Images

Applying the Basic Text Tags

Emphasizing text

Marking important text

Adding quotations

Creating Links

Building Bulleted and Numbered Lists

Making your point with bulleted lists

Numbered lists: Easy as one, two, three

Inserting Special Characters

Inserting Images

First, a mercifully brief look at image formats

Inserting an image

Turning an image into a link

Chapter 4 Building Web Forms.

What the Heck Is a Web Form?

Getting Your Form off the Ground

Including a Button

Gathering Text

Working with text boxes

Working with text areas

Adding labels

Including Checkboxes

Setting Up Radio Buttons

Making Selection Lists

Adding a Picker or Two

Chapter 5 Exploring the CSS Box Model

Getting to Know the Box Model

Touring the box model

Getting the hand of block and inline boxes

Putting on Some Padding

Building a Border

Applying a border

Rounding a border

Messing with Margins

Styling Sizes

Specifying a minimum or maximum height or width

Making width and height easier

Chapter 6 Selecting Stuff with Selectors

Understanding Element Relationships

Getting to Know the Selector

Exploring the Standard Selectors

The type selector

The class selector (.)

The id selector (#)

Selecting Descendants, Children, and Siblings

The descendant combinator ( )

The child combinator (&gt

)

The subsequent-sibling combinator (~)

The next-sibling combinator (+)

Working with Pseudo-Classes

Styling elements with pseudo-classes

Matching child elements

:first-child

:last-child

:nth-child()

:nth-last-child()

Chapter 7 Taking the Measure of CSS

Getting to Know the CSS Measurement Units

Learning the Absolute Measurement Units

Learning the Relative Measurement Units

Playing with percentages

Trying on the em unit for size

Making your life easier with the rem unit

Taking the browser into account with viewport units

Chapter 8 Decorating Element Colors and Backgrounds

Picking Out Colors in CSS

Working with color keywords

Wielding the rgb() function

Figuring out RGB codes

Giving the hsl() function a whirl

Coloring Page Text

Styling Background Colors and Images

Coloring an element's background.

Adding a background image

Chapter 9 Tweaking Text Typographically

Formatting with Fonts

Understanding typefaces

Styling text with a font family

Introducing the font stack

Formatting text with generic fonts

Formatting text with system fonts

Working with web fonts

Linking to a web font

Self-hosting a web font

Tweaking the Type Size

Styling Text with Bold and Italics

Styling bold text

Styling italic text

Aligning Text Just So

Setting text alignment

Hyphenating text

Indenting first lines

Chapter 10 Ten Must-Memorize CSS Selectors

The Class Selector

The Id Selector

The Type Selector

The Descendant Combinator

The Child Combinator

The Subsequent-Sibling Combinator

The Next-Sibling Combinator

The First-Child Pseudo-Class

The Last-Child Pseudo-Class

The Nth-Child Pseudo-Class

Index

EULA.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-394-26292-2

OCLC:

1428132252