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HTML5 Digital Classroom Book

The HTML5 Digital Classroom book is like having a personal instructor guiding you through each lesson, while you work at your own pace. This HTML5 book includes self-paced lessons that allow you to learn essential web design skills at your own speed.

  • Full color lessons with easy to follow step-by-step instructions
  • Video tutorials highlight key topics in each lesson 
  • Covers all essential HTML5 and CSS3 skills 
  • Gets you up-and-running quickly with included lesson files
  • Written by expert instructors who regularly teach HTML courses - it's like having your own personal tutor
  • Used by hundreds of schools and more than 100,000 readers
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HTML5 Digital Classroom Book Contents

Starting Up

  • About HTML5 Digital Classroom
  • Prerequisites
  • System requirements
  • Using web browsers that support HTML5 tags
  • Understanding menus and commands
  • Understanding how to read HTML and CSS code changes
  • Loading lesson files
  • Video tutorials
  • Additional resources

Lesson 1: Defining HTML5

  • Starting up
  • Defining HTML5
  • Identifying HTML5 sites
  • HTML5 expands the definition of what a web page can do
  • HTML5 markup
  • A tour of the key HTML5 elements
  • The video, audio, and canvas elements
  • The video and audio elements embed media files into your pages
  • The canvas element provides drawing and animation features
  • Web Forms
  • Many more new HTML5 elements
  • An overview of HTML5 APIs and supporting technologies
  • Geolocation in action
  • Web Workers
  • Web Storages
  • CSS3 is not part of HTML5, but is closely related
  • CSS Animations
  • CSS Transitions
  • CSS 2D- and 3D-Transformations
  • CSS3 Backgrounds, Borders, RGBa colors, Gradients, Drop Shadows, and Rounded Corners
  • @font-face Web fonts
  • HTML5 is in a state of transition
  • Who is using HTML5 today?
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 2: Fundamentals of HTML, XHTML, and CSS

  • Starting up
  • Web languages
  • Web page structure is based on HTML
  • The details of XHTML syntax
  • Doctype lets the web browser know what to expect
  • The W3C and page validation
  • HTML structure
  • Placing images in HTML
  • The role of CSS
  • Styling a heading
  • Understanding class styles and spans
  • Three ways to use styles
  • Internal versus external style sheets
  • Creating an external style sheet
  • What makes styles cascading
  • Self study
  • Review 

Lesson 3: Formatting Text with CSS

  • Starting up
  • The importance of typography on the web
  • The challenges of fonts on the web
  • Setting a font-family
  • Sizing text with CSS
  • Pixels and points are not the best choices
  • Using a combination of percent and the em measurement
  • Using margins to modify the space between your text
  • Setting paragraph line-height
  • Transforming text with CSS
  • Working with HTML lists
  • Styling HTML lists
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 4: Introduction to CSS Layout

  • Starting up
  • Working with a CSS reset file
  • A brief history of layout techniques on the web
  • An overview of page layout options
  • Understanding the divs: creating a two-column fixed-width CSS layout
  • Understanding the CSS float property
  • Creating columns with the float property
  • Working with the clear property
  • Creating a list-based navigation using floats
  • Adding text styles
  • The effect of margins and padding on your fixed-width layout
  • A review of using margins and padding for layout
  • Styling your footer with a background image
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 5: Advanced CSS Layout

  • Starting up
  • Building your page layout
  • Removing the background color
  • Working with CSS background images
  • Using hacks to solve layout problems
  • Enhancing your CSS navigation bar
  • Moving your internal styles to the external style sheet
  • Creating a style for the active page
  • Adding images to your sidebar
  • Working with absolute positioning
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 6: Using HTML5 Markup

  • Starting up
  • A review of semantic markup
  • HTML5 Fundamentals
  • The HTML5 DOCTYPE declaration
  • The different categories used for HTML5 content
  • Using the new header element in HTML5
  • Adding support for HTML5 elements in browsers
  • Adding the HTML5 nav element
  • Adding the other HTML5 sectioning elements
  • HTML5 Document Outlines
  • Adding the footer element
  • Adding the article and aside elements
  • Additional HTML5 elements
  • Revisiting familiar HTML elements
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 7: Creating HTML5 Forms

  • Starting up
  • The need for updated forms
  • Reviewing how forms work
  • The components of a form
  • Adding new HTML5 input types and attributes
  • Creating an order form with new HTML5 input types and attributes
  • HTML5 form features under development
  • Providing fallbacks for browsers that don't support HTML5 features
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 8: Introduction to JavaScript and jQuery

  • Starting up
  • Interactivity on the web
  • Adobe Flash
  • JavaScript
  • JavaScript basics
  • JavaScript events
  • Placing your JavaScript into an external document
  • The Document Object Model
  • JavaScript frameworks
  • Hiding an element with jQuery
  • Adding an event to trigger the show effect
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 9: Working with Video and Audio Elements

  • Starting up
  • Adding video
  • Adding support for more browsers
  • Adding fallback support for older browsers
  • Controlling a video with JavaScript
  • Adding audio
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 10: Working with Canvas

  • Starting up
  • Understanding the Canvas element
  • The benefits of the Canvas element
  • Drawing Paths
  • Drawing Rectangles
  • Drawing Lines and Circles
  • Drawing with Curves
  • Adding Text
  • Using colors, styles, and gradients
  • Adding Images
  • Using Transforms
  • Creating a Drawing Loop
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 11: Styling with CSS3

  • Starting up
  • Understanding the role of CSS3
  • Using CSS3 border-radius and border-image
  • Adding multiple-background images
  • Working with CSS3 transparency and opacity
  • Using CSS3 gradients
  • CSS gradients have significant potential for the future
  • CSS3 transforms, transitions and animation
  • Creating CSS3 transforms and transitions
  • Working with the CSS Animation
  • Working with web fonts
  • Using @ font-face to specify a web font
  • Using a web service to generate multiple fonts
  • Alternative methods for adding web fonts
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 12: CSS3 Media Queries and the future of CSS3

  • Starting up
  • The role of CSS3 Media queries
  • Using CSS3 media queries to deliver a mobile-optimized layout
  • Upcoming developments in
  • The CSS3 Multi-column layout
  • The CSS3 Flexible Box layout module
  • The CSS3 template layout module
  • Adding template-based position to CSS
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 13: Offline Storage in HTML5

  • Starting up
  • On the Road, Again
  • Offline Storage in HTML5
  • localStorage methods
  • localStorage examples
  • Putting it all together
  • Advanced Data Storage
  • Application Caching
  • The cache manifest file
  • Cache manifest structure
  • Updating the cache
  • The applicationCache Object
  • Bringing it all together
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 14: HTML5 Geolocation

  • Starting up
  • Understanding Geolocation
  • Getting the user's Location
  • Displaying the user's Location with Google Maps
  • Browsers Lacking HTML5 Geolocation
  • Creating a HTML5 Geolocation and Google Maps mashup
  • Adding Google Map markers to your geolocation page
  • Self study
  • Review

Lesson 15: HTML5 Drag and Drop

  • Starting up
  • Drag and Drop on the Web
  • Cross-Browser Drag and Drop Operation
  • Transferring Data with a Drag-and-Drop Operation
  • Self study
  • Review

Appendix: HTML5

  • List of current HTML5 elements
  • List of element content categories
  • List of attributes
  • List of event handler content attributes
  • List of events
  • Media element events