HTML Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to HTML 3.2 and HTML Extensions

by Ian S. Graham

"The most effective way to learn how to write HTML pages. . . A complete, step-by-step guide to designing, editing, and managing Web pages." --PC Magazine "For HTML sophisticates, HTML Sourcebook will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471175757
• ISBN13: 9780471175759
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

HTML 3.2 Sourcebook, by Ian Graham

This is the most superb and comprehensive HTML book out there! All other books promise to teach you HTML "in 24 hours".........wrong answer! Ian Graham shows how much those "other" books leave out. I was going to spend two grand on an HTML course; instead, i bought this book for twenty bucks at a discount store. I saved a load of dough. It's an absolutely definitive volume, the true HTML bible. Graham is wonderfully, obsessively knowledgeable about HTML.

My career started with this book

When I started to learn Web programming, I was overwhelmed by the sources of HTML guide. Fortunately I found this book. Unlike some other HTML scripters, I read this book from cover to cover memorizing almost all tags/attributes as if a teacher would give me a quiz the second day. Thanks to its clear description, I could remember most I memorized. Today I'm a professional Web programmer doing mostly Perl/CGI, Javascript and Apache administration. I owe a lot to Ian Graham. I constantly recommend this book to others who wish to learn HTML.

Forget the Definitive Guide, buy this one!

I think the only people criticising this exhaustive reference are those who should be using Frontpage anyway. Considering its target market, it packs in a surprisingly good amount of examples and tutorial too that even an amateur can learn from. If you are serious, this kills the Definitive Guide for content and as for Stanek's Unleashed - just forget it, it's the most over-hyped volume out there! Just take notice of the professionals who read this book - all my friends who design web sites for a living use it...

Clear and consise. An excellent reference

*blink* I was rather surprised to see the comments made on this site. I have used Mr. Graham's books since I started developing - I found it was more like a well written programming book (even though I don't view HTML as a programming language) - tags/related theory were well laid out, descriptions and examples were relevant and excellent. I *have* read several other HTML books, but this is the one I turn to when I need a question answered. To the readers who had a problem with it - try reading it from the beginning. Mr. Graham is a prof, and his book tends to read like a lecture. Keep that in mind when you pick it up the next time, you might be in for a nice surprise.

The Web Developer's dream, the BEST HTML book I've seen!

I am a professional Web Programer and I love this book. It is the best reference book I've seen for HTML. I hope Mr Graham will keep writing HTML books in this style and do the same for the JavaScript Language. This book is straight to the point, it tells you what you can do with a tag and what you can not and many times the browser version and type that the tags will work in. The people that did not like Mr Graham's HTML books (I have them both) possibly are looking to them to teach them everything they need to know about Web Programming. They are not introductory HTML books nor books on CGI, Java, or JavaScript programming although he does talk about them in a basic sense. They are wonderful HTML reference books.