Here is an excellent HTML Ebook which will help you increase your HTML skills in regards to its syntax, semantics, and elements of style. This HTML ebook provides lots of well-coded examples  to use to practice with when writing your web pages. It is slightly dated, as it only teaches HTML ver. 4.0, but it offers a whole chapter on CSS, which you need to fully read and understand. The book also offers design and style recommendations that will help attract visitors and make your site accessible. You do not need to have any HTML experience to read and use the HTML lessons and examples presented. (4542kb, 588 pages, pdf format)

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: HTML and the World Wide Web
• The Internet, Intranets, and Extranets 
• Talking the Internet Talk 
• HTML: What It Is 
• HTML: What It Isn't 
• Nonstandard Extensions 
• Tools for the HTML Designer
• Chapter 2: HTML Quick Start
• Writing Tools 
• A First HTML Document 
• HTML Embedded Tags 
• HTML Skeleton 
• The Flesh on an HTML Document 
• HTML and Text 
• Hyperlinks 
• Images Are Special 
• Lists, Searchable Documents, and Forms 
• Tables 
• Frames 
• Style Sheets and JavaScript
• Chapter 3: Anatomy of an HTML Document
• Appearances Can Deceive 
• Structure of an HTML Document 
• HTML Tags 
• Document Content 
• HTML Document Elements 
• The Document Header 
• The Document Body 
• Editorial Markup 
• Chapter 4: Text Basics
• Divisions and Paragraphs 
• Headings 
• Changing Text Appearance 
• Content-based Style Tags 
• Physical Style Tags 
• Expanded Font Handling 
• Precise Spacing and Layout 
• Block Quotes 
• Addresses 
• Special Character Encoding
• Chapter 5: Rules, Images, and Multimedia
• Horizontal Rules 
• Inserting Images in Your Documents 
• Document Colors and Background Images 
• Background Audio 
• Animated Text 
• Other Multimedia Content
• Chapter 6: Document Layout
• Creating Whitespace 
• Multicolumn Layout 
• Layers
• Chapter 7: Links and Webs
• Hypertext Basics 
• Referencing Documents: The URL 
• Creating Hyperlinks 
• Creating Effective Links 
• Mouse-Sensitive Images 
• Creating Searchable Documents 
• Establishing Document Relationships 
• Supporting Document Automation
• Chapter 8: Formatted Lists
• Unordered Lists 
• Ordered Lists 
• The <li> Tag 
• Nesting Lists 
• Directory Lists 
• Menu Lists 
• Definition Lists 
• Appropriate List Usage
• Chapter 9: Cascading Style Sheets
• The Elements of Styles 
• Style Syntax 
• Style Properties 
• Tag-less Styles: The <span> Tag 
• Applying Styles to Documents
• Chapter 10: Forms
• Form Fundamentals 
• The <form> Tag 
• A Simple Form Example 
• Using Email to Collect Form Data 
• The <input> Tag 
• Multiline Text Areas 
• Multiple Choice Elements 
• General Form Control Attributes 
• Labeling and Grouping Form Elements 
• Creating Effective Forms 
• Forms Programming
• Chapter 11: Tables
• The HTML Table Model 
• Table Tags 
• New HTML 4.0 Table Tags 
• Beyond Ordinary Tables
• Chapter 12: Frames
• An Overview of Frames 
• Frame Tags 
• Frame Layout 
• Frame Contents 
• The <noframes> Tag 
• Inline Frames 
• Named Frame or Window Targets
• Chapter 13: Executable Content
• Applets and Objects 
• Embedded Content 
• JavaScript 
• JavaScript Style Sheets
• Chapter 14: Dynamic Documents
• An Overview of Dynamic Documents 
• Client-Pull Documents 
• Server -Push Documents
• Chapter 15: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks
• Top of the Tips 
• Trivial or Abusive? 
• Custom Bullets 
• Tricks with Tables 
• Transparent Images 
• Tricks with Windows and Frames
• Appendix A: HTML Grammar
• Appendix B: HTML Tag Quick Reference
• Appendix C: Cascading Style Sheet Properties Quick Reference
• Appendix D: The HTML 4.0 DTD
• Appendix E: Character Entities
• Appendix F: Color Names and Values

Whether you are starting out or already an experienced web development programmer, these 182 XHTML Tutorials and FAQs will help you create an attractive and functional web site. Example XHTML code is also provided, along with tutorial exercises and some great XHTML tips. These will increase your knowledge and understanding of XHTML and demonstrate some excellent ways you can use this web development technology.

The following XHTML Tutorial and FAQ sections are presented:


17 XHTML FAQs - Introduction To XHTML

• Answers what is XHTML in relation to: Web, HTTP, XML, HTML, URL, SGML, CSS, and DTD; who developed XHTML; writing and viewing XHTML documents.

• Tutorials and code for: XHTML elements, opening and closing tags, element attributes, quoting attribute values, required attribute and values, case sensitivity, entering comments, protecting ampersand sign.

• Learn the code to program: XHTML element content models, EMTPY and PCDATA element contents, sub-element only contents, mixed contents, XHTML entities and CDATA, nested elements, white space characters.

• Shows how to code: XHTML DTD specifications and the root element; the head and body elements; head level elements like title, meta, base, script, link, and style; description and keywords meta elements.

• Learn how to use: XHTML body element and its sub-elements; normal paragraphs and pre-formatted paragraphs, in-line elements in paragraphs, line breaks and paragraph spacing, block level elements: p, pre, blockquote, h1, hr.

• Shows how to use: inline elements like: strong, em, code, sub, sup, del, ins, big, small, br, script.

• Find out how to code: anchor tags/elements, URL structures, different formats of URLs, hyper links to image, music, PDF and ZIP files, opening documents in new windows.

• Demonstrates the use of: list elements for ordered lists, unordered lists, and definition lists; creating nested lists; including multiple paragraphs in one list item; changing list item markers.

• Learn how to use: table elements like: table, tr, td, th, caption; table attributes like: border, frame, cellspacing, cellpadding; row and cell attributes like: align, valign, colspan, rowspan.

• Learn about: input fields, form elements and submission methods; input elements and input types like text, password, radio, checkbox, hidden, submit, file, image, button; dropdown lists and text areas; multiple forms.

• How to do: inline images and image maps: image elements and image sizes; floating images and animated images, server-side and client-side image maps.

• Covers: basic usages of "div" and "span" elements; nesting and floating "div" elements; changing fonts with "span" elements.

• Answers to inteview questions covering: Basic Concepts, XHTML Syntax, Block Elements, Inline Elements, Table Elements, Hyper Links and Images, and Forms and Input Fields.