HTML & XHTML, the Definitive Guide
by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy
After working through Dave Raggett's excellent online introductions to HTML, I had the impression there might be a lot he didn't cover. Um, yes, about 450 pages. This entry in the O'Reilly series is not their heftiest, but it is as full as you'd want it to be. Essentially it covers every feature of the language, mostly in clear terms, with illustrations.
So that makes it easy? No, that doesn't make it easy; I'm still trying to divine what the authors are getting at in the chapter on forms. What we have here instead is comprehensiveness. You want to find out what went wrong with your document fragment URLs? It's in there. That and Javascript basics, the required and possible contents of every defined HTML tag, and a lot of pointers on how to present your knowledge so that web users can extract it.
My only regret is that my nephew, who must be able to smell these things, found it for half-price at his local bookstore. But it's still worth the price if you have $35 worth of need-to-know.
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