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Hip Pocket Guide to Html 4

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This is an exceptionally useful reference to HTML 4 that I keep on my desk for looking things up as I work on my web sites. It's also a book I recommended highly to customers when I sold computer books in a previous job. If you're somewhat familiar with HTML, this is a perfect reference, and has the advantage of being comb bound so it doesn't snap shut while you're using it. If you want a book with which to learn HTML, this isn't it (Elizabeth Castro's "HTML 4 Visual Quickstart Guide" is), but if you use HTML daily, this is a necessary book to have and keep handy.

I find this book a great compact reference. It's unfortunate that it has a number of errors, and some missing information.

For me, The compact size is of more importance than a few small errors, which I try and mark up anyway.

Its a bit annoying that the web site is STILL NOT available (Dec 1999)

I havent found another book that comes close to being as useful as a handy reference.

What I really want though, is a book that discusses not just the standard, but what each browser actually supports at each version!

This is NOT a beginners book. If you can write the basics of HTML but find yourself stumbling on various attributes, this is the book you need. This guide provides an easy list of tags, indexed on the inside covers for quick reference to page numbers. Point and click is the only thing easier! This is HTML to GO! Loose the mondo source books! This one fits in my PURSE!

The Hip Pocket Guide is a great portable reference for HTML 4. I wouldn't recommend it as a beginner's first or only book, but for someone who knows the basics, it is extremely helpful. Whenever I need a reminder about what attributes I can use with a particular tag, this is the book I refer to.

It is especially great for the web designer who must travel throughout the day. Whether I'm working on my pages at home, or teaching HTML at work (USF - Tampa), I've got this guide with me.

I found this book to be quite useful to have. I learned HTML from it quite easily by taking the commands one at a time and writing a practice page.

There are a few problems with it, but on the whole they are very minor. I might have organized it a bit differently, but then again, the way it is has its advantages.

I have downloaded the official and complete HTML 4.0 reference, which I printed out and it fills a 3" ring binder with an awful lot of pages filled with mostly incomprehensible stuff. Should I need to reseach something esoteric I can go to it, but it is definately a reference of last resort

Since this book is small and concise, I feel it is a good book to have, and where I look first.

I borrowed the book from a friend. Knew nothing about coding HTML (could read html, just not code) and within 3 hours I had a full test website with links, tables, images, background all the basics. I am now getting into the forms and such. GREAT BOOK, I am online now to buy it for myself!

If you are somewhat understand how HTML works, this is the perfect reference for you. I got the 3.2, and 4.0. I am hoping to see this to be updated with HTML 5.0

Understand HTML already? Just need to be able to look up the details of a specific tag from time to time? Then this will work well for you. If you're like me and every once in a while get tripped up by a syntax nuance, then this will be just what you need. The examples are occasionally unclear, and it's missing a few details here and there, but for the most part, it has exactly what you need. Its compactness also means that it doesn't waste your time trying to teach; the conciseness is a breath of fresh hair in a world of "Astrophysics for Drooling Morons" books.

Even though it's slightly flawed, I use it constantly.

This is a great reference book for 95% of the HTML that you will use. The remaining 5% is that arcane stuff that you can get in the 500-page $50 books. Wish it would note IE & Netscape extensions/problems. I keep this one in my briefcase.

I would recommend this book to people who already know the basics of HTML, but need a quick reference guide to look up syntax once in a while. It would be good if it divided tags up between "standard", "IE only", and "Netscape only", like a lot of other references, but until the WASP get their way, trial and error is still the only guaranteed way to do cross-browser development. All in all, a very useful book.