C
cache, loading images into 330
cached pages, avoiding 421
calls, making 382
capitalize, with styles 172
caption element 217
captions
in forms 287
in tables 217
card element (in WML) 372
cascade 42-43
See also CSS
case (upper/lower)
and file names 32
changing with styles 172
HTML vs XHTML 36
CDATA sections
for hiding scripts 321
for hiding style sheets 151
cellpadding attribute, in table element 230-231
cells
aligning 226-227
background images 228-229
changing color 228-229
eliminating space between 230-231
height 221
line breaks 239
padding and spacing 230-231
spanning across columns 232
spanning across rows 233
width 220-221
cellspacing attribute, in table element 230-231
center element 356
centering 356
headers 65
tables 222
text 65, 66, 171
with margin property 222
centimeters, in CSS 45
CGI Resource Index 266
CGI scripts 264-268
adapting 268
and base element 123
and Perl 264, 266
and quotation marks for generated (X)HTML 281
explanation 264
getting 266
included with this book 267
permissions 268
preparing 268
security 265
transferring to server 268
using a form hosting service 271
what they do 265
changing pages automatically 309
character encodings. See encodings, character
character references 30, 340
description 334
in titles 64
characters, special 333-342
adding 340-341
complete list of entities 449-457
for (X)HTML symbols 450
in file names 55
in Web pages 30
mathematical and technical 454-456
punctuation 452-453
shapes and arrows 457
Western European 450-452
charset attribute, in script element 315
chat areas 265
checkboxes 275
checked attribute, in input element
for checkboxes 275
for radio buttons 274
child element 29, 177
cite attribute, in blockquote and q 78
cite element 74
class
assigning to element 67
choosing by selector 137
class attribute 67
classid attribute, in object element 298, 304
clear attribute, in br element, around images 112
clear property 195
clickable images
client-side maps 130
in links 128
server-side maps 132
clip art for Web pages 464
closing tags 26
and CSS 41
HTML vs XHTML 36
code element 76
col element 234-235
colgroup element 234-235
collapsing margins 189
color attribute
in basefont element 344
in font element 346
in hr element (IE only) 115
color property 166, 184
colors
and compression 87
background 182-183
with (X)HTML 354
browser-safe 85, 96-97
changing for print 199
changing rows and columns 228-229
defining
in CSS 46
in (X)HTML 27
foreground 184
in images 84
of borders
of frames 251
of tables 218
of links 141
with (X)HTML 349
of text 166, 184
with (X)HTML 346, 348
reducing number of 98
shifting 85
Web-safe 85
See also inside back cover
cols attribute
in frameset element 244, 245
in textarea element 278
colspan attribute, in td element 232
column groups 234-235
for speeding up display 240
columns
changing color 228-229
in frames 244, 245
in tables 232, 234-235
spanning cells across 232
of text, creating
with proprietary multicol element 365
with tables 232-233
combining framesets 246-247
comments
adding to page 71
CSS 155
documenting structure 176
for hiding scripts 320
for hiding style sheets 151
getting 398
Common Gateway Interface. See CGI scripts
Communicator. See Netscape Communicator
compatibility
and standards 16
browser wars 16
tester pages 402
Composer. See Netscape Composer
compression
and colors 87
and download time 87
blurring images to improve 100
of files for download 125
of photographs 87
computed value 164
and inheritance 169
conditional actions, in WML 380
containing block, description 191
content attribute, in meta element 322, 338, 417, 418, 419, 420
context, and selectors 138-140
coords attribute, in area element 130
copying other pages 57
copyrights, specifying for Web page 419
Corel HoTMetaL 463
Corel WordPerfect, and saving (X)HTML file 51
Costello, Eric 175
counters 265
Courier 76, 77
CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) 266
C++ 264
crawler page
creating 422-423
description 422
submitting 424
cropping images 92
cross-browser compatibility 15, 402
CSS 18
box model 177
cascade 42-43
colors 46
comments 155
complete list of properties and values 439-446
file extension 148
positioning 177
standards vs quirks mode 39
URLs 152
See also styles and style sheets
cursor property 185
cursors, changing with styles 185
custom markers, in lists 208, 210
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