Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

By Dick Oliver

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Put Your HTML Page Online Today
  • I. Your First Web Page
  • Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
  • Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
  • Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
  • Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
  • II. Web Page Text
  • Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
  • Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
  • Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
  • Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
  • III. Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
  • Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
  • Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
  • IV. Web Page Design
  • Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
  • Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
  • Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
  • Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
  • V. Dynamic Web Pages
  • Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
  • Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
  • Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
  • Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
    • Learning How to Fly
    • Dividing a Web Page into Layers
    • Offering Alternate Content in Plain HTML
    • Being Compatible with Incompatible Browsers
    • Moving a Layer Around with JavaScript
    • Interactive Layer Animation
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • VI. Building a Web Site
  • Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
  • Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
  • Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
  • Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
  • VII. Appendixes
  • A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
  • B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
  • C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
  • D. HTML Character Entities

Summary

This was undoubtedly the most challenging hour in the book. Don't be surprised or discouraged if you need to read through it more than once and experiment with the example page to begin successfully adapting the Dynamic HTML code to your own purposes.

If you have any experience with computer programming, you probably gleaned enough from this hour and the previous one to start writing your own JavaScript enhancements to your pages. Even if you have never written a line of computer-language code before in your life, you can still copy the code in the book and use it on your own pages.

In this hour, you've seen how to combine HTML, style sheets, and JavaScript to animate independent layers of text and graphics. You learned how to initiate an animation when a page first loads, or in response to a mouse click on any region of the page.

Of course, all this is only the tip of the Dynamic HTML iceberg. Current scripting languages allow you to modify any of the content or formatting of your pages on-the-fly, in response to a wide variety of events. Future versions of JavaScript are likely to make it much easier to do so in a way that is fully compatible with all major Web browsers. The promising future of Dynamic HTML is discussed in Hour 24, "Planning for the Future of HTML."

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