Beginning HTML & CSS / Rob Larsen.

"Wrox programmer to programmer."

Includes index.

Chapter 1: Structuring Documents for the Web; A Web of Structured Documents; Introducing HTML5; Attribute Groups; Core Elements; Basic Text Formatting; Understanding Block and Inline Elements; Grouping Content; Working with Lists; Chapter 2: Fine-tuning Your Text; Elements That Describe Text-Level Semantics; Editing Text; Using Character Entities for Special Characters; Comments; Chapter 3: Links and Navigation; Basic Links; Understanding Directories and Directory Structures; Understanding URLs; Creating In-Page Links with the <a> Element; Advanced E-mail Links; Chapter 4: Images, Audio, and Video; Adding Images Using the <img> Element; Using Images as Links; Choosing the Right Image Format; Adding Flash, Video, and Audio to Your Web Pages; Summary; Chapter 5: Tables; Introducing Tables; Basic Table Elements and Attributes; Adding a Caption to a Table; Grouping Sections of a Table; Nested Tables; Accessible Tables; Chapter 6: Forms; Introducing Forms; Creating a Form with the <form> Element; Form Controls; Creating a Contact Form; Creating Labels for Controls and the <label> Element; Structuring Your Forms with <fieldset> and <legend> Elements; Focus; Disabled and Read-Only Controls; Sending Form Data to the Server; Creating More Usable Form Fields; Chapter 7: Cascading Style Sheets; Introducing CSS; Where You Can Add CSS Rules; CSS Properties; Controlling Text; Text Formatting; Text Pseudo-Classes; Styling Text; Selectors; Lengths; Introducing the Box Model; Creating a Style Sheet for Code; Chapter 8: More Cascading Style Sheets; Links; Backgrounds; Lists; Tables; Outlines; The :focus and :active Pseudo-Classes; Generated Content; Miscellaneous Properties; Additional Rules; Positioning and Layout with CSS; Chapter 9: Rounded Corners, Animations, Custom Fonts, and More With CSS3; The Modular Approach of CSS3; Mature CSS3 Modules; New and In-Development Modules; Chapter 10: Learning JavaScript; What Is Programming About?; How to Add a Script to Your Pages; Create an External JavaScript; The Document Object Model; Starting to Program with JavaScript; Variables; Operators; Functions; Conditional Statements; Looping; Events; Built-in Objects; Writing JavaScript; Chapter 11: Working with jQuery; Why jQuery?; Adding jQuery to Your Page; jQuery Basics; jQuery and the DOM; Managing Events with jQuery; Chapter 12: jQuery: Beyond the Basics; Ajax with jQuery; jQuery UI; Chapter 13: Checklists; Search Engine Optimization Checklist; Accesibility Checklist; Appendix A: Answers to exercises; Appendix B: HTML Element Reference; Appendix C: CSS Properties; Appendix D: Color Names and Values; Appendix E: Character Encoding; Appendix F: Special Characters; Appendix G: Language Codes; Appendix H: Mime Media Types; Appendix I: Changes Between HTML4 and HTML5.

The book teaches readers the basics of building web sites in HTML5 and CSS3. It begins by talking about different versions of HTML and CSS, and describes how modern web pages should use structure and semantics to describe their contents. There are chapters that deal with core topics including: marking up text, images, lists, tables, forms, audio and video. Each of these chapters would introduce relevant HTML5 elements.