The Ultimate HTML Reference

`The Ultimate HTML Reference` is just that` comprehensive, authoritative, and completely up-to-date. The book covers: Every element in the HTML and XHTML Specifications, including an example of its correct use Coverage of depreciated elements and those from the upcoming HTML 5 specification The popular microformats so you can future-proof your website Detailed browser compatibility information for every element will save you hours of painful debugging and frustration

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A Very User friendly Reference book
I am taking a class in website building using HTML and CSS. I ordered the book after taking my 1st class, and have found it very helpful. It is very userfriendly with examples for every tag. I definitely recommend this to anyone.

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Good for a beginner
I wouldn't call this the Ultimate Reference. Lacking more advanced HTML tags and properties, but the tags/properties that it does cover is in great detail. Great for beginners, lacking for more advanced html coding.

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Good reference
If you've ventured at all into web sites, blogging, and social media, you find yourself running into HTML. Visual editor tools are fine for getting the effects you want into writing, but that is slow and limited. For the greatest flexibility in formatting text, creating tables and lists, inserting pictures, and many other tasks, a knowledge of HTML is handy. The Ultimate HTML Reference by Ian Lloyd is a reference book that should be close by a dictionary, thesaurus, or volume on English usage.

I've found myself frequently reaching for it when trying to remember how to control a table layout in a blog entry or double-checking how to get a link to open in a new window. The material is complete so far as I can tell, and the organization, including TOC and index, is strong and lets me easily find what I need. At $45 it isn't a cheap volume, but could easily save you its cost in time efficiency in your first time or two of using it.

I do wish that the index were more complete and cross-referenced. But still a good book to have close by when dealing with HTML.

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Must have
This reference (together with The Ultimate CSS Reference) is a must have for any professional or home-user who whats to know all about the possibilities of HTML.

It can be used to check which element is supported by all major browsers (with the exception of the lastest Firefox release 3.0). It has a very usefull index, brief but clear descriptions and its size and format makes it easy to use.


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An HTML Essential
Whether you code HTML by hand or use a design tool like DreamWeaver, you definitely ought to have this book handy.