Brilliant HTML5 & CSS3: (Brilliant Computing)

Written by experts in the field, this text covers HTML5 and CSS3.

Table of Contents:
1.         Introduction to HTML       Gathering equipment – text editors and web browsers       Making sense of HTML – elements, tags and attributes       Basic structure of an HTML document       Creating your first HTML document with declarations, header, metadata and title       HTML comments   2.         Web page structure with HTML5 tags             Adding HTML sections             Adding HTML articles             Creating HTML navigation             Creating an HTML sidebar             Creating an HTML content header             Creating an HTML footer             3.         HTML text markup tags             Breaking text into paragraphs             Adding HTML headings             Formatting text with HTML             Creating an ordered list             Creating an unordered list             Creating a description list             Using HTML quotations   4.         HTML hyperlinks             Understanding URLs             Using absolute URLs             Using relative URLs             Creating hyperlink anchors             Adding hyperlink targets             Creating a hyperlink to an e-mail address   5.         Adding images to an HTML page             Adding images to a web page             Creating image links             Creating thumbnail image links             Creating an image map             Marking up an image as a figure   6.         HTML tables             Creating an HTML table             Adjusting the padding and spacing in a table's cells             Creating table headings             Adding a caption to a table             Forming the body of a table             Spanning cells across rows and columns             Creating a table footer             7.         HTML forms             Building a simple HTML form             Labelling HTML form controls             Adding buttons to an HTML form             Adding a selection box to an HTML form             Using HTML controls             Adding more HTML form controls             8.         Using HTML attributes to tweak forms             Adding placeholder text in HTML form controls             Setting a field to autofocus             What doesn’t work             Some final thoughts on HTML5   9.         CSS3 – what’s new?             Finding documentation on CSS             Finding out what’s new in CSS3   10.        Introduction to CSS             Prepping for CSS             Understanding CSS code             Creating CSS comments             Understanding classes and IDs   11.        Specifying CSS styles             Creating an external style sheet             Creating an internal style sheet             Creating an inline style sheet   12.        Setting borders with CSS             Adding a border to an element             Creating borders using separate lines             Creating rounded corners on a border             Using an image as a border   13.        Formatting colours and backgrounds with CSS             Choosing a colour palette             Specifying CSS colours four ways             Setting foreground and background colours             Setting background images             14.        Formatting fonts and text with CSS             Setting an element&anbsp;     Setting an element’s font style             Setting a font's weight and size             Setting font properties by using the font declaration             Decorating text and changing case             Aligning text             Formatting text using word and letter spacing             Adding drop shadows to text   15.        CSS margins, padding and element size             Setting an element's padding             Setting an element's margins             Setting relative width and height             Setting absolute width and height   16.        Positioning elements using CSS             Positioning elements with float and clear             Absolute positioning of elements             Relative positioning of elements             Fixed positioning of elements             Layering elements using CSS   17.        Some final thoughts on CSS             Creating a navigation bar from an ordered list             Setting sidebar properties             Cleaning up text and adding white space   Appendix 1: List of HTML tags used in this book   Appendix 2: List of CSS properties covered in this book   Appendix 3: CSS colour names and numeric values   Jargon buster   Troubleshooting guide