HTML 4 Advanced Study Guide

0-619-20260-2 © 2004 Publish date: April 2, 2004 130 pages

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Now that you have basic skills using HTML consider choosing one of our computer training books to get advanced knowledge. The HTML 4 Advanced study guide is a self-paced training program designed for those who have limited HTML experience but wish to learn about more advanced HTML elements and techniques.

This course will teach several new topics including using customizable tables and forms. The HTML 4 Advanced courseware is an excellent tool to use to teach yourself advanced techniques that you can immediately put into practice.

This courseware takes you through six comprehensive units with activities and review sections to challenge your learning. You'll get actual techniques that you can begin using right away in designing your web pages. After completing the course, you can keep the manual as a useful HTML reference book to refer to over and over.

Because the HTML 4 Advanced courseware is a self-directed course, you are in complete control of how quickly you master the material. If you wish to complete the course in a day and begin using the techniques right away, that's entirely possible. If you need more time, the review sections will come in handy to remind you what you've learned.

Course Objectives

You will learn how to control page and element margins, widths, and spacing, how to customize and design forms, how to add accessibility features, how to create framed web pages, and how to create inline frames. You will also learn about the variants of HTML and XHTML, as well as validating HTML documents.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces design techniques

• Page margins
• IDs
• Classes
• Element width
• Element spacing

Unit 2 covers table formatting

• How to span rows and columns
• Setting table background colors
• Nested tables
• Accessible tables

Unit 3 discusses forms

• An overview of forms
• Form layout
• Form options and attributes

Unit 4 covers customized forms

• Fieldsets
• Form styles
• Creating accessible forms

Unit 5 talks about frames

• An overview of frames
• Frame links
• Inline frames

Unit 6 covers HTML variants and validation

• HTML variants
• XHTML authoring