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A

a (ASCII) type code, using with FTP URLs, 106

a:* selectors, descriptions and examples of, 285

<a> (anchor) element, 265-267

advisory about spacing around, 19

defining hyperlinks with, 91-92

as destination and link, 113

and images, 117-119

naming, 113-114

overview of, 587-590

role in linking, 109-110

using, 109-110

using with audio, 249-250

using with images as buttons , 163-164

using with PDF files, 267

using with server-side image maps, 120-121

<abbr> (abbreviation) element

explanation of, 83

overview of, 590-591

absolute URLs, example of, 110

absolute value of position property in CSS2, explanation of, 333, 336

accelerator keys

table of, 116, 394

using with <a> anchor tags, 115-116

accept attribute, using with <input> tag in forms, 388

accesskey attribute

overview of, 581

using, 115-116

using with forms, 393-394

value and description of, 113

<acronym> element, overview of, 83, 591-592

action attribute, using with <form> tags, 367-368

Active link state, explanation of, 112

ActiveBorder color value in CSS2, intended rendering of, 351

ActiveCaption color value in CSS2, intended rendering of, 351

ActiveX controls

adding to Web pages, 482-485

installing, 484

overview of, 480-486

passing data to, 484-485

and scripting, 485-486

security concerns related to, 480

using, 486

acute accents, character entities for, 802-807

&acute; (acute accent ) HTML character entity, description of, 801

<address> element

example of, 78-79

overview of, 592-593

adjacent-sibling CSS2 selector, example of, 328

Adobe Acrobat technology, overview of, 265-267

Adobe's SVG viewer, referencing files with, 569-570

&aelig; (lowercase ae ligature) HTML character entity, description of, 805

AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format), description of, 249

align attribute

advisory about using texttop, baseline, absmiddle, and absbottom values with, 158

example of, 59-60, 61-62

using with images, 155-158

using with QuickTime, 257

alignment attributes, overview of, 174 See also text alignment

alink attribute, changing, 110, 191

all value, using with <br/> tag, 159-160

alphabet.txt example of databinding, 227-229

alt attribute

using with <img> tag, 153-155

using with image maps, 126

alternate rel value, explanation of, 129

alternative style sheets, examples of, 346-349

&amp; (ampersand) HTML character entity, description of, 790

ampersand (&)

character entity for, 87

as logical connector, 838

anchor attributes. See also attributes; extended event attributes

accesskey anchor attribute, 115-116

id attribute, 112-114

and link relationships, 117

name attribute, 112-114

nohref anchor attribute, 125-126

rel anchor attribute, 117

rev anchor attribute, 117

and scripting, 117

tabindex anchor attribute, 116

tabindex attribute, 126-128

table of, 113

target anchor attribute, 116, 125

title attribute, 114-115

animated GIFs, overview of, 263

animation

and GIF images, 146-148

overview of, 260-265

anonymous FTP, explanation of, 105

anti-aliasing, occurrence in GIF images, 145

Apache server modules Web address, 419

Apache software, overview of, 507

appendix rel value, explanation of, 129

<applet> (Java Applet) element

overview of, 593-595

syntax of, 488-490

applets. See Java applets

AppWorkspace color value in CSS2, intended rendering of, 351

archive attribute, using with Java applets, 489

<area> (image map area) element

attributes of, 121-122

overview of, 595-596

using with client-side image maps, 121-123

arrows, HTML 4.0 character entities for, 814

ASP (Active Server Pages) server-side scripting solution, overview of, 428-431

ASP.NET server-side scripting solution, overview of, 428-431

asterisk (*)

as CSS2 selector, 327

as occurrence indicator, 838

attribute declarations, overview of, 840

attribute values

case sensitivity of, 18-19

quoting, 21

attributes. See also anchor attributes; extended event attributes

accept, 388

accesskey, 393-394, 581

action, 367-368

align, 59-60, 155-158, 257

alink, link, and vlink, 110, 191

alt, 126, 153-155

archive, 489

of <area> element, 122

autoplay, 257

autostart, 253

behavior, 262

bgcolor , 205, 207-208

bgproperties, 195

border, 120, 163-164, 197-198

cache, 257

cellpadding and cellspacing, 206

cite, 66-67

class, 56-57, 579

classid, 492

clear, 159

code and codebase , 488

colspan, 199-201

compact, 70

contenteditable, 581

controller, 257

datafld , 229

datapagesize, 229

datasrc, 228-229

datetime, 85

declare, 484

dir, 57-58

direction, 262

directories, 581

disabled, 396, 581

dynsrc , 256

enctype, 367, 370-371

for event handlers used with XHTML documents, 441-445

for events, 582-585

face, 181

frame, 225

height, 161-162, 258

hidden, 258

hidefocus , 581

href, 91, 258

hspace, 158-159, 258, 322-324

http-equiv, 526-527

id, 56, 375, 378, 452, 579-580

of image element, 153-163

for image maps, 125-128

for installation of plug-ins, 476-477

ismap, 120

language, 57-58, 440, 581

leftmargin, 195

line-height, 295

link, 191

loop, 250-251, 258

lowsrc, 162-163

marginheight and marginwidth, 195

matching with CSS2 selector, 328-329

media, 132

method, 367-370

name, 372, 375, 378, 384, 452, 490, 525-526

noshade, 77-78

of <ol> tag, 70

onclick event, 58

playeveryframe, 258

pluginspage, 258

readonly, 396-397

rowspan, 199-201

rules, 225

scale, 258

scrollamount, 262

size , 77-78, 373

src, 257, 475

standby, 484

start, 71

style, 57, 580

syntax of, 4-5

tabindex, 393-394, 582

for table borders, 208-209

target, 258

text, 190

title, 57, 85, 126, 155, 394-395, 580

topmargin, 195

type, 70, 274

unselectable, 582

usemap, 121, 165

value, 375-376, 384

vcard_name, 395-396

vlink, 191

volume, 250-251, 259

vspace, 158-159, 259, 322-324

width, 77-78, 161-162, 202-203, 259

xmlns, 561

AU (Sparc-audio or u-law) format, description of, 249

audience, determining for Web site projects, 31-33

audio

downloading and playing, 248-249

including, 249-251

overview of, 247-254

/audio directory, contents of, 542

audio file formats and compression, overview of, 248

audio files, converting to RealAudio format, 252

audio formats, table of, 249

AUTH_TYPE variable in CGI, description of, 413

authenticated protocols

FTP as, 105

telnet as, 107

authenticated services, relationship to URLs, 99

auto value of cursor property in CSS2, description of, 349-350

AutoComplete feature, using for form accessibility, 395-396

automatic numbering of objects, performing with CSS2, 342-343

autoplay attribute, using with QuickTime, 257

autostart attribute, using with RealAudio, 253

AVI (Audio Video Interleave) video format, description of, 255

azimuth property in CSS2, overview of, 357

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