Web Standards Programmer's Reference. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and PHP

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1 Brochure More information from Web Standards Programmer's Reference. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and PHP Description: Web Standards HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and PHP Serving as both a "how to" guide and a reference, this book is one stop reading for all the essential Web standards XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, CGI with Perl and Python, and PHP. In today's web environment, professional web coders and serious enthusiasts need to create documents and scripts that comply with published standards so your content can be viewed on as many web capable platforms as possible. This book teaches the standards and technologies necessary to achieve that desired result. Packed with examples for learning each of these standard technologies and followed by detailed references to each language, this book provides a total package for moving your web publishing to current standards based coding. What you will learn from this book - A solid background and understanding of HTML and applying XHTML to format specific document elements - Using CSS to select and format text, margins, colors, and other elements and position them on the page - Applying JavaScript for client side scripting and dynamic content delivery - Using server scripts and CGI with the popular Perl and Python languages - Publishing rich, dynamic content using the PHP scripting language - The importance of following web standards to ensure compatibility with as many user agents as possible, including Internet Explorer, the increasingly important and popular Firefox, and the latest crop of mobile platforms - How to avoid browser specific code and deprecated tags and attributes that cause your documents to be unusable for many users Who this book is for The book is for programmers and web coders who want to learn web standards compliant coding. Wrox Programmer's References are designed to give the experienced developer straight facts on a technology, without hype or unnecessary explanations. They deliver hard information with plenty of practical examples to help you apply these tools to your development projects today. Contents: Introduction xxiii Part One: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Chapter 1: The Basics of HTML 1 Chapter 2: Document Tags 13 Chapter 3: Paragraphs and Lines 23 Chapter 4: Lists 35 Chapter 5: Images 51 Chapter 6: Links 69 Chapter 7: Text 79

2 Chapter 8: Tables 89 Chapter 9: Forms 123 Chapter 10: Objects and Plugins 143 Chapter 11: XML 153 Part Two: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Chapter 12: CSS Basics 163 Chapter 13: Style Definitions 171 Chapter 14: Text 189 Chapter 15: Padding, Margins, and Borders 215 Chapter 16: Colors and Backgrounds 227 Chapter 17: Tables 237 Chapter 18: Element Positioning 245 Part Three: JavaScript and DHTML Chapter 19: JavaScript Basics 263 Chapter 20: The JavaScript Language 269 Chapter 21: The Document Object Model 291 Chapter 22: JavaScript Objects and Dynamic HTML 311 Chapter 23: Using JavaScript 323 Part Four: Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Chapter 24: CGI Basics 363 Chapter 25: Perl Language 371 Chapter 26: The Python Language 397 Chapter 27: Scripting with Other Executable Code 423 Chapter 28: Using CGI 431 Part Five: PHP Chapter 29: PHP Basics 471 Chapter 30: The PHP Language 479 Chapter 31: Using PHP 507 Part Six: Appendixes Appendix A: XHTML Reference 527 Appendix B: CSS Properties 577

3 Appendix C: JavaScript Language Reference 603 Appendix D: Perl Language Reference 649 Appendix E: Python Language Reference 675 Appendix F: PHP Language Reference 717 Index 789 Ordering: Order Online - Order by Fax - using the form below Order by Post - print the order form below and send to Research and Markets, Guinness Centre, Taylors Lane, Dublin 8,

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