Rating: 
Summary: Great compact reference!
Review: There may be a few errors, like the missing <IMG> tag, but the errata list on the O'Reilly site has the information posted. The rest of the book is so good that I'm fine with plugging in the missing information myself. I love how it's set up as one big alphabetical list of tags. It makes it so easy to find what you want. I have been using it lately to check tags for browser compatibility. Saves so much time to quick turn to a page in this small book, rather than search big books or websites for compatibility info!
Rating:
Summary: Definately a time saver!
Review: There may be a few errors, like the missing <IMG> tag, but the errata list on the O'Reilly site has the information posted. The rest of the book is so good that I'm fine with plugging in the missing information myself. I love how it's set up as one big alphabetical list of tags. It makes it so easy to find what you want. I have been using it lately to check tags for browser compatibility. Saves so much time to quick turn to a page in this small book, rather than search big books or websites for compatibility info!
Rating:
Summary: Awesome Book Great if you have a grasp on HTML
Review: This book has been a great help for me. I am self taught and find that this compact version of the larger HTML guide has helped to speed up the time it takes for me to write code. No more searching through page after page to find what you want it is all right there. This book is not for beginners though, it is good reference material, not good instructional material.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Reference for the Web Expert, but Not for Beginners
Review: This book is essentially just an alphabetical list of most of the HTML tags and attributes. Each is explained briefly and the browsers that support each tag are listed. At the end of the book is a list of "tag groups" that group functionally related tags, a list of character entities, and a table of colors. If you're very familiar with HTML and just need this listing of tags and attributes, this is the book for you!If you're not an HTML expert, however, this book might be more confusing that helpful. For example, if you want to center some text but you don't want to use the deprecated <center> tag, you need to know which tag to look up. There are few examples, so if you want to add a Java applet to a page, you need to already know what to put in the <object> tag. There's no description of the <!DOCTYPE> tag that all HTML 4 compliant web pages need. Much of the HTML in the book is not XHTML compliant. Although the book claims to cover every tag in HTML 4, there are some that it leaves out. And the only web site the book refers to is yet another alphabetical list of tags. If you already know HTML well and have a good HTML reference book, this book will allow you to quickly look up information tags and attributes. But if you're not an expert and want to write good, clean HTML 4 compliant markup, save your money.
Rating:
Summary: Great little refrence
Review: This book is just what I have been looking for. I have other refrence type HTML books, but this little 'bible' is just the right size and provides just enough information to jog my memory when I have forgotten some little detail. If you use a text editor to put together HTML I would STRONGLY reccomend you get this book!
Rating: 
Summary: Not a tutorial, but a good quick reference
Review: This book is the functional equivalent of those "quick reference cards" that come with software manuals. You won't learn HTML from it, but that's not really the point; the point is to look up information you know exists, but can't reasonably keep in your head. For example, this book lists all HTML tags in alphabetical order, rather than grouping them functionally (except as almost an afterthought) - not really useful if you have no idea what tag to use in a given situation, but useful if you need to know what attributes you can specify for a tag and what browsers support those attributes. And it excels when you're analyzing the HTML structure of an existing page and you run across a tag you don't know or have never seen used in quite the way you're seeing it used. Combine this with a complete list of character entities ("&" characters), decimal to hex conversions and colors by name, and put it all in a small, thin volume you can keep in your briefcase without having to make room for it, and you have a pretty useful reference. Four stars for being what it sets out to be; not as a substitute for a more comprehensive HTML book.
Rating:
Summary: Truly An Indispensable Reference
Review: This book, as most but seemingly not all will realize, is not intended to be a definitive text on HTML. It truly is what it purports to be, a concise (but thorough) listing of tags and their attributes with explanations and browser support information. One could not beat the pure utility of that concept with a stick. An expert or a beginner could not go wrong with adding this book to their arsenal of resources. I particularly encourage beginners to use it to decipher source code found on web pages that they like. Learning by example is a great way to get started. A pocket reference, such as this, allows one to get to the meat without having to wade through some weighty tome that may have more information than you need at the time. I plan to get another one. That way I will have one at home where I work on my own stuff and one at the office for when the young hotshots on my staff think that they can use something the old guy will not understand.
Rating:
Summary: Very cool, very usable!
Review: This is a book that will not find its way back to the shelf, my certainly didn't. I once picked it up to look something up and never put it back, it sits next to my keyboard. It is an alphabetic reference to all the HTML tags and it not only list them, it shows you how to use them correctly, what your options are etc. It also has a list of the HTML codes for characters, a hex-dec conversion table, and a color table that lists the color names, their RGB values, hex codes and the hex code for the nearest web safe color. Indispensable, a must for everyone who codes in HTML and very cleverly designed, too.
Rating:
Summary: Great quick reference guide.
Review: This is a great little book to keep on your desk to check syntax, etc. I use mine very frequently. You can even carry it around with you if you work out of the office with a laptop.
Rating:
Summary: A great reference tool
Review: This is such a handy tool. I didn't need a lesson is building web pages, I just wanted to know what the HTML codes where and what they do. Instead of looking through hundreds of pages of text like in many other books, this book gives you a list. That's all I needed. If you want to learn how to build web pages get Web Design in a Nutshell, also published by O'Reilly.
| 
