Reviews for Beginning HTML With CSS & XHTML: Modern Guide & Reference: Modern Guide and Reference (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)

1. A useful addition to the web programmers bookshelf

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, September 12th, 2008

   This useful book is both a beginner's introduction and a reference book. One particularly useful feature is that the elements are fully defined in the body of the book as you learn about them, and then they are all brought together, alphabetically in Appendices. This allows the book to be used as a fast reference when you have finished it.
   
   XHTML and CSS are covered pretty thoroughly, as are forms, tables and image maps. There is a brief discussion of client side scripting with JavaScript, but I would hesitate to use the technique on production code without looking at a more in depth book on the subject.
   
   This book is, as the title implies, a book for beginners. I doubt that a web developer with a lot of experience would get much out of it. On the other hand it's refreshing to find a book for beginners that doesn't talk down to its readers, or treat them as dummies!
   
   Recommended