Essential XHTML fast: Creating Dynamic Web Sites with XHTML and JavaScript / Edition 1

by John Cowell

Overview

XHTML is a flexible XML based markup language for designing Web sites. In January 2000, the W3C announced that it was supporting the development of XHTML as a replacement to HTML. HTML will continue to be around for a while, but if you want to develop Web sites for the future you need to switch to XHTML. Designers who make the change find that they can develop faster, better sites using XHTML. Most Web sites are interactive, responding to the viewer. To do this you need to use a scripting language - JavaScript is the most popular scripting language and interfaces easily with XHTML. To develop powerful interactive Web sites you need to understand these technologies and how they work together. Essential XHTML fast gives you everything you need to develop great Web sites in XHTML, including an introduction to scripting with JavaScript so that you can create dynamic interactive Web pages. There are many step-by-step examples, which you can download from the series Web site. It covers key aspects such as: The relationship between XML and XHTML Cascading Style sheets for formatting layout Using text, images and image maps as links Creating and using tables The new standard for frames Interactive XHTML forms The JavaScript language Incorporating JavaScript into XHTML pages Handling events in JavaScript The source code for the examples in this book is available at the Essential series web site http://www.essential-series.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852336844
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	01/31/2003
Series:	Essential Series
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

1. Why Do I Need XHTML?.- Why switch to XHTML?.- What do I need?.- Is this book for you?.- How to use this book.- Don’t type!.- 2. XML And XHTML.- HTML versions.- What is XML?.- What is XHTML?.- What is JavaScript?.- Getting started.- 3. Creating XHTML Documents.- Starting an XHTML document.- The html element.- White space.- The head element.- The title element.- The meta element.- The base element.- The body element.- Validating the document.- The p element.- Other paragraph types.- 4. Formatting Documents.- Headings.- Line breaks.- Inserting lines.- Colours and Fonts.- Lists.- 5. Creating Links.- What is a URL?.- The a element.- Absolute and relative URLs.- Links within a document.- Email links.- 6. Creating And Using Tables.- Creating tables.- Formatting tables.- Formatting cells.- Grouping table elements.- Style sheets.- 7. Working With Images.- Image Formats.- Which format should I use?.- Minimizing file size.- Displaying images.- Linking from an image.- Image maps.- Client and Server side maps.- 8. Cascading Style Sheets.- Types of style sheets.- Embedding a style sheet.- Linking to a style sheet.- In-line formatting.- Classes and IDs.- Creating a style sheet.- Changing the background.- Conflicting properties.- 9. Creating And Using Frames.- Types of frames.- Creating fixed frames.- Controlling frame size.- Creating more complex framesets.- Preventing frame resizing.- Formatting.- Navigation.- Browsers which do not support frames.- Legal problems.- In-line frames.- 10. CREATING FORMS.- Creating and using forms.- The form element.- What is sent to the server?.- Controls.- The input element.- The button element.- The textarea element.- List controls.- Grouping controls.- Disabling controls.- The PC buyer document.- Processing forms.- 11. Javascript and XHTML.-Java and JavaScript.- Using Java applets.- Using JavaScript.- The CDATA Section.- JavaScript data types.- Identifiers.- Numbers.- Arithmetic operators.- Shortcut operators.- Strings.- Booleans.- Functions.- write and writeln.- Scope of variables.- Declaring variables.- What’s next?.- 12. THe Javascript Language.- JavaScript errors.- Formatting JavaScript code.- Comments.- Case sensitivity.- Compound Statements.- The ifstatement.- The comparison operators.- The logical operators.- The switch construct.- Looping.- for..in and with statements.- Labels.- The break statement.- The continue statement.- 13. Javascript Core Objects.- The navigator object.- Important JavaScript objects.- 14. Handling Events.- The mouse events.- The keyboard events.- The document and window events.- The form events.- The focus events.- 15. Deprecated and Valid Elements.- Deprecated elements.- Current XHTML elements.- 16. INDEX.