Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72 EAN: 9780596002961 ISBN: 0596002963 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 104 Publication Date: January 18, 2002 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 500137 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionIn this completely revised and updated pocket reference, Jennifer Niederst, the author of the best-selling Web Design in a Nutshell, delivers a complete guide to every HTML tag. As with O'Reilly's other pocket references, this handy book offers the bare essentials in a small, concise format that you can carry anywhere for quick reference. This guide will literally fit into your back pocket. Each entry in the book is devoted to the description of a single HTML tag, its standard usage, information on the tag's attributes, browser support (for Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Opera), and support for WebTV. Niederst puts the tags in context, indicating which ones are grouped together. She also offers bare-bones examples of how standard web page elements are constructed. All the tag-by-tag descriptions in this new edition have been brought up to date with the current HTML specification (4.01), and the book includes useful charts of character entities and decimal-to-hexadecimal conversions. The HTML Pocket Reference, second edition is an indispensable reference for any serious web designer, author, or programmer.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - perfect, complete
This is what other O'Reilly Pocket References should be. It contains everything and should replace all non-design-oriented HTML books
Rating: - Relax, IMG is only missing from the first printing
FYI: the IMG tag is only missing from the first printing. (I asked O'Reilly.) Indeed, a recent copy of the book is not missing it anymore. (Back of the title page, bottom right corner has a date: [11/04]. My other copy, which is missing IMG, has [6/02] in this spot.) A quick check shows that they have fixed some, but not all, of the errata (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/htmlpr2/errata/).
But this book is still totally worth having. It's small enough to leave lying around the ... Read More
Rating: - so-so (buggy)
I am generally a fan of Pocket References. But this one seems poorly debugged. One example is claiming "align" is deprecated for
. Turns out, this bug has made it onto the Errata page for the book
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/htmlpr2/errata/ ,
but only under "Unconfirmed error reports and comments from readers." If you write a buggy book, at least do the work to confirm bugs and fix them in new printings!
Rating: - Must Have Pocket Reference
If you are designing web pages, you must have this book. That is all there is to it.
This is a small compact reference book (hence the title) which lists the HTML tags in alphabetical order, shows if they are supported by the three major browsers (IE,NN,Opera) and if they are part of the w3c spec HTML 4.01. Information is given for the applicable attributes for each tag.
Once you know it (especially if you follow w3c standards) HTML is a simple and easy language to use.. ... Read More
Rating: - Definately a time saver!
There may be a few errors, like the missing tag, but the errata list on the O'Reilly site has the information posted. The rest of the book is so good that I'm fine with plugging in the missing information myself. I love how it's set up as one big alphabetical list of tags. It makes it so easy to find what you want. I have been using it lately to check tags for browser compatibility. Saves so much time to quick turn to a page in this small book, rather than search big books or websites for ... Read More
- perfect, complete
- so-so (buggy)
