A
a element 118
for multimedia files 308
in WML 377
A List Apart, Web magazine 20, 37
switching style sheets 150
abbr element 82
abbreviations
describing 82
for languages 342
hexadecimal colors 46
absolute positioning 179
absolute units 45
absolute URLs 34
in links 118
accented characters. See characters, special
access element, WML 391
accessibility 22
and frames 262
importance of 37
accesskey attribute
in a element 126
in area element 131
in form elements 290
acronym element 82
acronyms, describing 82
action attribute, in form element 269
actions, scheduling in WML 381
active images 286
active links, color of 141
with (X)HTML 349
:active pseudo-class 141
ActiveX controls, and object element 294
address element 74
Adobe Corporation, and W3C 17
Adobe GoLive 463
Adobe ImageReady, for Web images 101
Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements 83, 90-101, 464
adding space around images 113
and image size 106
blurring to aid JPEG compression 100
creating transparency 93-94
dither 96-97
for examples 83
interlacing images 99
reducing number of colors 98
Aladdin Systems 125
align attribute
in caption element 217
in hn tag 65
in hr element 115
in iframe element 248
in img element
for aligning 114
for floating images 110
in legend element 287
in p element 66
in table element
for centering 222
for text wrap 223
in table elements 226-227
aligning
cells 226-227
with column groups 234-235
header cells 235
headers 65
images 114
paragraphs 66
text 65, 66, 171
vertically 196
alink attribute, in body element 349
Allaire HomeSite. See Macromedia HomeSite
alt attribute
in area element 130
in img element 105
AltaVista, getting listed in 424
alternate style sheets 150
alternate text 105, 130
America Online 17
publishing Web pages on 412
transferring files with Fetch or WS_FTP 413
URL of Web pages 413
ampersand. See Symbols section
anchor element, in WML 376-377
anchors 120-121
and tables of contents 120
creating 120
in headers 65
in WML 376-377
links to 121
with id attribute 67, 120
animated GIFs 101
explanation 88
ANSI encoding 52
AOL. See America Online
Apache servers
and character encodings 339
and WML 370
AppleScript 264
applet element 306
archived pages, avoiding 421
area element 130
arrows, entities for 457
ASCII 30
images, and preformatted text 77
limitations of 334
mode for transferring files 409, 411
See also Text Only format
asterisk. See Symbols section
attaching
backgrounds to browser window 182
elements to browser window 180
[attribute] selector 144
attributes 27
case 36
author, specifying for Web page 419
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