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HTML Black Book: The Programmer's Complete HTML Reference Book

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I started using Java, Html, JSP recently, so I wanted to get a book which will enable me to start programming immediately without too much theory. This is a great book with a lot of examples, and it is very easy to read. If you want to start development of web pages asap, get this book.

I was really looking forward to getting this book. I have been coding HTML for over 3 years now and really do not have an HTML reference book on hand. I was hoping this would be it, it isn't. The book is VERY poorly bound. I expect it will fall apart shortly, with heavy use it wouldn't last a week! The book is full of redundant code examples, to increase the page count I assume. Even as a tutorial it falls short. The book tries to come off as THE guide for HTML, but falls short again. I would like to know why Perl, XML and Java are in this book. They have nothing to do with HTML. They deserve books all to themselves of which there are plenty out there. While they are a part of webpages they are not a part of HTML, well not since the last time I checked with the W3C they weren't. There are some pluses though, that's why the rating is not as low as you would think. The way the HTML tags are detailed with the listing of all of the Attributes and which browser supports what tag is really good. The Style Sheets section is also nicely done and probably the books best feature. Unfortunately, if I keep looking for info in the book it will probably fall apart at the seems in my hand. Not worth a buy!

This book in probably one of the best books out there on HTML. I had no experience with HTML yet had a web set up and running in less then a month. It will take you a while to read this book but your time will be worth while.

The books offers numerious examples that will guide you in your efforts. All the example are highly helpful when you need a quick guide to help you with a particular project.

One great effort of the book is the Table of Contents. Just by looking at the table of contents, you will learn all the different parts to the HTML options out there. After using this book, there are other options you will learn that converge from HTML. This includes Java, Perl, and CGI. This book give great intoductions to these platforms also.

Jason

The HTML Black Book is worth every penny--easy to understand and very thorough. I bought it after realizing I hadn't done much to keep up with changes in HTML over the last couple of years and this not only got me up to speed, but gave me a whole slew of new ideas.

I was really disappointed with this book. The statement 'The only Html Book You'll need to develop your web site' is a lie. This book is more for beginners then for serious web developers. Examples in this book are simple and you will hardly have any use in real life application. I'm building web application and If you are looking for something it takes forever to find it in this book. If you don't want to waste your time and money, forget this book.

i was looking for a comprehensive reference, and this being a "black book" and having a reader's level of "INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED" seemed like it. but it wasn't
The book is NOT built as a reference, and doesn't even have all the detailed info included on the methods/objects. chapters are built in more of a "tutorial" style then a reference (for example, having things like "and then your boss sais: "well, why don't you do it?", and you say "Great." in the middle of a text is really not what a reference is about.
Anyway, if you are a TOTAL beginner and want a comprehensive start-up manual - get this book, if you want a comprehensive REFERENCE - you can get a $7 softcover book that will be a lot more helpfull

I have read nearly 10 books on HTML. This is the best.

As many have said, this is probably not intermediate/advanced as it claims to be. But it is an excellent place to start, especially compared with some of the other "beginner's" titles out there. It doesn't talk down to you and is very thorough and moves quickly.

While this book is far from being a complete resource for HTML, I would doubt any book is.
After the first three chapters, I had several web pages complete and am looking forward to the rest of the book.

Great place to start for the novice.

This book is, without doubt, the best HTML book I have ever seen. It has gotten me up to date with the latest HTML and also covers many other web related topics and technologies. I would recommend this book to absolutely anyone.