HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies

A thorough and helpful reference for aspiring website builders

Looking to start an exciting new career in front-end web building and design? Or maybe you just want to develop a new skill and create websites for fun. Whatever your reasons, it’s never been easier to start learning how to build websites from scratch than with help from HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies. This book has the essentials you need to wrap your head around the key ingredients of website design and creation.

You’ll learn to build attractive, useful, and easy-to-navigate websites by combining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into fun and practical creations. Using the 6 books compiled within this comprehensive collection, you’ll discover how to make static and dynamic websites, complete with intuitive layouts and cool animations. The book also includes:

• Incorporate the latest approaches to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including those involving new markup, page styles, interactivity, and more
• Step-by-step instructions for new site creators explaining the very basics of page layouts and animations
• Easy-to-follow advice for adjusting page color and background, adding widgets to a site, and getting rid of all the bugs that affect site performance
• Bonus 6th book available at https://www.wiley.com/en-us/HTML%2C+CSS%2C+%26amp%3B+JavaScript+All+in+One+For+Dummies-p-9781394164721. 

Web development is a fun, interesting, and challenging skill that can lead to a lucrative career (if you’re so inclined). And with the right help, almost anyone can learn to create engaging websites from scratch. So, grab a copy of HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies and you’ll be designing and building before you know it!

Conquer the basics of front-end web building

To create great websites, you’ll need to know the “big three” web coding languages―HTML, CSS, and JavaScript®. This book teaches you each of these core web-building languages with five minibooks full of clear explanations, examples, reference lists, and the latest in web building trends and techniques. This expanded resource shows you how to design interfaces that work on any device, build accessible web pages, polish your pages with colors and typography, debug your code, and tons more. Make it all look easy, thanks to this For Dummies guide.

5 Mini-Books Inside…

• Getting Started with Front-End Web Building
• Learning HTML Basics
• Learning CSS Basics
• Building Dynamic Pages with JavaScript
• Looking Good with Layouts
• Online bonus book: Raising Eyebrows with CSS Animations

Table of Contents

Book 1 Getting Started

Chapter 1 Getting Acquainted with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Chapter 2 Getting Ready to Code

Chapter 3 Finding and Setting Up a Web Host

Chapter 4 Testing and Validating Your Code

Book 2 Learning HTML Basics

Chapter 1 Building Good Bones: Structuring the Page

Chapter 2 Adding Links, Lists, and Other Text Tidbits Chapter 3 Working with Images, Video, and other Media

Chapter 4 Building Tables with Your Bare Hands

Chapter 5 Using Forms to Make a Page Interactive

Chapter 6 Making Your Web Pages Accessible

Book 3 Learning CSS Basics

Chapter 1 Figuring Out the CSS Box Model

Chapter 2 Getting to Know the CSS Selectors

Chapter 3 Pseudo School: Learning Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements

Chapter 4 Making CSS Make Sense

Chapter 5 Taking the Measure of CSS

Chapter 6 Fancifying Pages with Colors and Backgrounds

Chapter 7 Taking Your Text Up a Notch with Web Typography

Book 4 Building Dynamic Pages with JavaScript

Chapter 1 JavaScript: The Bird’s-Eye View

Chapter 2 Understanding Variables

Chapter 3 Building Expressions

Chapter 4 Controlling the Flow of JavaScript

Chapter 5 Harnessing the Power of Functions

Chapter 6 Playing with the Document Object Model

Chapter 7 Working with Arrays

Chapter 8 Manipulating Strings, Dates, and Numbers

Chapter 9 Storing User Data in the Browser

Chapter 10 Debugging Your Code

Chapter 11 Processing Form Data

Book 5 Looking Good with Layouts

Chapter 1 Exploring Some Layout Basics

Chapter 2 Getting Fancy with Flexbox

Chapter 3 Laying Out a Page with CSS Grid

Chapter 4 Creating Responsive Layouts

About the Author

Paul McFedries is a long-time technical author with over 100 published titles to his credit. His For Dummies work includes Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, iPad and iPad Pro For Dummies, Alexa For Dummies, G Suite For Dummies, and Excel Data Analysis For Dummies.