HTML & CSS Essentials For Dummies

Title Page....8 Copyright....9 Introduction....11 About This Book....12 Foolish Assumptions....12 Icons Used in This Book....13 Where to Go from Here....13 Chapter 1: Getting to Know HTML and CSS....14 Getting a Bird’s-Eye View of the Process....14 Getting to Know HTML....17 Getting Familiar with CSS....25 Chapter 2: Constructing Pages with Good Bones....32 Getting to Know HTML’s Basic Structure Tags....32 Structuring the Page....41 Chapter 3: Adding Links, Lists, and Images....49 Applying the Basic Text Tags....49 Creating Links....53 Building Bulleted and Numbered Lists....54 Inserting Special Characters....58 Inserting Images....60 Chapter 4: Building Web Forms....65 What the Heck Is a Web Form?....65 Getting Your Form off the Ground....66 Including a Button....66 Gathering Text....67 Including Checkboxes....71 Setting Up Radio Buttons....74 Making Selection Lists....76 Adding a Picker or Two....79 Chapter 5: Exploring the CSS Box Model....82 Getting to Know the Box Model....82 Putting on Some Padding....86 Building a Border....88 Messing with Margins....94 Styling Sizes....96 Chapter 6: Selecting Stuff with Selectors....102 Understanding Element Relationships....102 Getting to Know the Selector....105 Exploring the Standard Selectors....106 Selecting Descendants, Children, and Siblings....109 Working with Pseudo-Classes....111 Chapter 7: Taking the Measure of CSS....119 Getting to Know the CSS Measurement Units....119 Learning the Absolute Measurement Units....120 Learning the Relative Measurement Units....121 Chapter 8: Decorating Element Colors and Backgrounds....129 Picking Out Colors in CSS....129 Coloring Page Text....135 Styling Background Colors and Images....135 Chapter 9: Tweaking Text Typographically....142 Formatting with Fonts....142 Tweaking the Type Size....154 Styling Text with Bold and Italics....157 Aligning Text Just So....160 Chapter 10: Ten Must-Memorize CSS Selectors....164 The Class Selector....164 The Id Selector....164 The Type Selector....165 The Descendant Combinator....165 The Child Combinator....165 The Subsequent-Sibling Combinator....166 The Next-Sibling Combinator....166 The First-Child Pseudo-Class....166 The Last-Child Pseudo-Class....166 The Nth-Child Pseudo-Class....167 Index....168 About the Author....195 Connect with Dummies....199 End User License Agreement....201