HTML & CSS Essentials For Dummies [1 ed.] 9781394262915, 9781394262908, 9781394262922

Table of contents :
Cover
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
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
Getting to Know HTML
Getting Familiar with CSS
Chapter 2: Constructing Pages with Good Bones
Getting to Know HTML’s Basic Structure Tags
Structuring the Page
Chapter 3: Adding Links, Lists, and Images
Applying the Basic Text Tags
Creating Links
Building Bulleted and Numbered Lists
Inserting Special Characters
Inserting Images
Chapter 4: Building Web Forms
What the Heck Is a Web Form?
Getting Your Form off the Ground
Including a Button
Gathering Text
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
Putting on Some Padding
Building a Border
Messing with Margins
Styling Sizes
Chapter 6: Selecting Stuff with Selectors
Understanding Element Relationships
Getting to Know the Selector
Exploring the Standard Selectors
Selecting Descendants, Children, and Siblings
Working with Pseudo-Classes
Chapter 7: Taking the Measure of CSS
Getting to Know the CSS Measurement Units
Learning the Absolute Measurement Units
Learning the Relative Measurement Units
Chapter 8: Decorating Element Colors and Backgrounds
Picking Out Colors in CSS
Coloring Page Text
Styling Background Colors and Images
Chapter 9: Tweaking Text Typographically
Formatting with Fonts
Tweaking the Type Size
Styling Text with Bold and Italics
Aligning Text Just So
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
About the Author
Connect with Dummies
End User License Agreement