Special Edition Using HTML 4

by Jerry Honeycutt

What's Changed in the Fourth Edition

The recent evolution of HTML allows you to build documents with which a user can interact, not just view. In the fourth edition, our goal is to help you stay on top of all these changes:

• We've updated our coverage of HTML to include the latest and greatest HTML standards (HTML 4.0).
• We've reorganized the content so that information is easier for you to access.
• We've added an entire part covering Dynamic HTML, which includes topics such as the object model, scripting, style sheets, Web fonts, and more.
• We've added a part covering Web casting for both Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape Netcaster.

Aside from the more dramatic changes we've made to this edition, each and every chapter has gone through more subtle changes. We've updated each chapter with new tips. Outdated information has been replaced with new information. Each chapter has been updated with the latest versions of each program.

How This Book Is Organized

Special Edition Using HTML 4.0, Fourth Edition, provides comprehensive information about HTML and related technologies that you can use to build great Web pages. The new edition has eight parts, 46 chapters, four appendixes, and an index. Each part is dedicated to a particular concept, such as Web programming or objects. What follows is an overview of topics you find in each part of this book:

• Part I, "Publishing a Web Site," gives you a brief history of the Internet, World Wide Web, and HTML. In this part, you also learn about an approach to designing and implementing Web pages and how to publish your site to the Internet.
• Part II, "Creating Basic Web Pages with HTML 4.0," introduces you to HTML. You learn how HTML documents are organized and formatted. You also learn how to add frames, forms, and imagemaps to your Web page, as well as a number of other advanced techniques.
• Part III, "Creating Advanced Web Pages with Dynamic HTML," contains some of this book's biggest enhancements. You learn about Dynamic HTML, including the object model, scripting, and style sheets.

HTML Code Tutorial

Welcome to the HTML Code Tutorial. Our goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere

Tutorials

• Applets
• Comments
• CSS
• Document Tags
• Embedded Objects
• Fonts
• Forms
• Frames
• Images
• Lines & Paragraphs
• Links
• Lists
• Logical Tags
• Scripts
• Sounds
• Symbols
• Table
• Weird Tags

Forum

Learn and contribute to the HTML Help Forum. See what fellow webmasters have to say and use their collective experience to help solve your web design problems.

HTML Quick List 
A complete list of all tags and attributes, with links to pages about each of them.