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Author:   Dan Livingston ,  Micah Brown
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Prentice Hall
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 22.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780130649959

ISBN 10:   0130649953
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   31 August 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword. Acknowledgments. About the Author. 1. What Are CSS and DHTML? What Is CSS? What Is DHTML? DHTML vs. Flash. Browser Hell. What You Need to Know Already. 2. CSS (Stylesheets). Stylesheet Overview. What Classes Can Specify. Where to Set Styles and Classes. Linking to an External Stylesheet. Positioning Layers. Modifying HTML Tags. 3. The DHTML Begins. Page Structure: The DOM. Cross-Browser Coding. Hiding and Displaying Layers. Full Secondary Navigation. Another Good Way. 4. Animating Layers. The Task: Slide the Menus Away. Your First Animation. 5. Dragging Layers. Planning. Dragging Basics. Dragging Code. The Whole Thing. 6. An Interactive Quiz. The Plan. The HTML. The JavaScript. 7. Super-Size the Shelley Quiz. The Plan. The HTML. The JavaScript. Appendix A: CSS Style Attribute Reference. Box Property Attributes. Color and Background Attributes. Classification Attributes. Font Attributes. Text Attributes. Position Attributes. Appendix B: Miscellaneous References. Good Web Resources. External Stylesheets. Positioning Attributes. Measurement Units. Colors. Appendix C: JavaScript Reference. Basic Objects. Operators. Control Statements. Global Functions. Statements. Appendix D: Netscape Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 4 DOM Reference. A. Anchors. Applets. Area. Button. Checkbox. Document. Elements. Embeds. Event. FileUpload. Form. Forms. Frames. Hidden. History. Images. Links. Location. Navigator. Option. Password. Radio. Reset. Screen. Select. Submit. Text. Textarea. Window. Appendix E: Internet Explorer 5+ and Netscape 6 DOM Quick Reference. All HTML Elements. Specific HTML Tags and Objects. Index.

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DAN LIVINGSTON, founder of Wire Man Productions, is a leading-edge Web designer, serving clients such as Apple, Novell, Pacific Bell, and Landor. His sites, which have garnered awards from Yahoo! and USA Today, have been featured on CNN and praised by the Los Angeles Times.

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