Web Programming with html5, css, and JavaScript

Joe Triplett
Ohio University
Marilyn Turmelle
School for the Talented and Gifted
Michael Van Hilst
Nova Southeastern University
Christopher T. VanOosterhout
Muskegon Community College
Sam Vegter
Western Piedmont Community College
Jerry Westfall
Liberty University
My web-programming students have not been shy about making suggestions and finding 
errors. In particular, thank you Olivia Leung, Matthew Prybyszczuk, Jessica Detweiler, Alexis 
Fry, Chrisman Miller, and Yves Akanza.

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John Dean is an Associate Professor and the Department Chair of the Department of Computer 
Science and Information Systems at Park University. He earned a PhD degree in computer science 
from Nova Southeastern University and an MS degree in computer science from the University 
of Kansas. Dean has worked in industry as a software engineer and project manager, specializ-
ing in Java and various web technologies—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JavaServer Pages, and serv-
lets. He has taught a full range of computer science courses, including client-side and server-side 
web-programming courses.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
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Learn the basics of creating a website.
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Learn the basics of HTML—elements, tags, 
attributes.
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Use structural elements (
html
, 
head
, 
body
) 
to form the framework of a web page.
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Fill in a 
head
container with 
title
and 
meta
elements.
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Fill in a 
body
container with 
h1
, 
hr
, 
p
, 
br
, 
and 
div
elements.
▸
Learn the basics of Cascading Style Sheets.
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Learn how HTML, the Web, and web 
browsers originated.
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Use the W3C’s Markup Validation Service.