HTML reference guide
 

I am looking for a useable reference guide to HTML tags and maybe
other elements of web design such as style sheets. The reference would
be either standalone or on the web. Until now I have been using HTMLib
by Stephen Le Hunte but that seems to crash under XP.

What can people suggest, what do you use?

Re: HTML reference guide
 

mouse@house.spam wrote:

> I am looking for a useable reference guide to HTML tags and maybe
> other elements of web design such as style sheets. The reference would
> be either standalone or on the web. Until now I have been using HTMLib
> by Stephen Le Hunte but that seems to crash under XP.
>
> What can people suggest, what do you use?

I use this one for HTML:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html
and this one for CSS:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html

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Re: HTML reference guide
 

Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote in
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> mouse@house.spam wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a useable reference guide to HTML tags and maybe
>> other elements of web design such as style sheets. The reference
>> would be either standalone or on the web. Until now I have been
>> using HTMLib by Stephen Le Hunte but that seems to crash under XP.
>>
>> What can people suggest, what do you use?
>
> I use this one for HTML:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html
> and this one for CSS:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html
>

That's what I use as well. Right from the horse's mouth, so to speak
since the W3C wrote the recommendations.

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Re: HTML reference guide
 

In article <9cp3b2h3losjvg43kjstcrltjb7u8r2hrs@4ax.com>,
mouse@house.spam wrote:

> I am looking for a useable reference guide to HTML tags and maybe
> other elements of web design such as style sheets. The reference would
> be either standalone or on the web. Until now I have been using HTMLib
> by Stephen Le Hunte but that seems to crash under XP.
>
> What can people suggest, what do you use?

The HTML and CSS references at HtmlHelp (http://htmlhelp.com/) are
favorites of mine. They're downloadable to one's local machine, which is
a big plus from my point of view. One caveat -- they were written in
1998 which makes them fairly old in Internet time, which means some of
the comments about then-current browsers and other technology is out of
date. But the core reference material is as accurate as ever, and I find
it friendly to use.

Another complementary reference is the charts one can get from Visibone
(http://www.visibone.com/). They're ultra-concise print references that
are reasonably priced and well-made.

Good luck

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Re: HTML reference guide
 

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed mouse@house.spam writing in
news:9cp3b2h3losjvg43kjstcrltjb7u8r2hrs@4ax.com:

> I am looking for a useable reference guide to HTML tags and maybe
> other elements of web design such as style sheets. The reference would
> be either standalone or on the web. Until now I have been using HTMLib
> by Stephen Le Hunte but that seems to crash under XP.
>
> What can people suggest, what do you use?

In addition to what others have said, http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/ is
very good as well.

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Re: HTML reference guide
 

And what do u think about w3schools, maybe kind of over population of
ads but i found it very useful.
http://www.w3schools.com/

Many useful tips and sample code.

Re: HTML reference guide
 

In <9cp3b2h3losjvg43kjstcrltjb7u8r2hrs@4ax.com>, on 07/10/2006
at 06:31 AM, mouse@house.spam said:

>I am looking for a useable reference guide to HTML tags and maybe
>other elements of web design such as style sheets.

If dead trees are acceptable, O'Reilly is your friend.

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Re: HTML reference guide
 

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:

> If dead trees are acceptable, O'Reilly is your friend.

Recent O'Reilly - the "Head First" series - look pretty good.

Anything else (the white and pastel coloured covers with the old animal
engravings) has been poor for some years now. There's only one O'Reilly
I'd see as useful for HTML work. There's a couple on CSS too, but
neither are good beginner's texts.