B
b element 74
background 167, 182-183
and deciphering others' tables 216
hiding for print 199
sound 303, 311
with (X)HTML 354, 355
background attribute
in body element 355
in table elements 228-229
background properties 167, 182-183
in tables 228-229
banners, hiding in print style sheets 199
Bare Bones Software 463
base element 123, 257
basefont element 344
BBEdit 49, 463
character encodings 336, 337
syntax checking 394
Berners-Lee, Tim 14
bgcolor attribute
and priority 229
in body element 354
in table elements 228-229
bgproperties attribute
in body element 355
bgsound element 311
big element 75
Birznieks, Gunther 266
Bitstream 159
blink element 351
blinking text 174
with (X)HTML 351
block-level
description 28, 177
setting with styles 178
vs inline elements 177
blockquote element 78
blocks of text, in forms 278
blurring images (for compression) 100
BMP format 89, 401
body element 62
and frames 243
HTML vs XHTML 36
bold formatting 74, 161, 165
bookmarks, and title 64
border attribute
in frameset element 252
in img element 104
in table element 218-219
border properties 186-187
in tables 218-219
border-spacing property 230-231
bordercolor attribute, in frameset or frame element 251
borders 186-187
of frames 251
and resizing 254
colors 251
eliminating 252
showing/hiding 253
thickness 252
of images in links 128
of tables 218-219
displaying 237
external 237
hiding 237
internal 238
bottom property 179, 180, 181
Boutin, Paul 415, 423
box model
description 177
IE 5.x for Windows bug 190-191
br element 70
and lists 205
and white-space property 170
clear attribute 112
in cells 239
stopping text wrap around images 112
broken image icon 401
browsers
compatibility 402
default display 40
description 15
hiding scripts from 320
opening pages in 56, 398
problems with 400, 402
standards vs quirks mode 39
wars 16
See also Netscape Communicator, Internet Explorer, Opera
browser-safe colors 96-97
and fake transparency 95
definition 85
lessening need for 85
bugs
IE 5.x for Windows
and width 190-191, 221
IE 6 for Windows
and nested objects 261, 295
XML declaration triggers quirks mode 61
Netscape 4.x
borders 152
relative URLs and style sheets 149
solving with @import rules 152
bulletin boards 265
bullets
and password boxes in forms 273
in lists 206
default order 213
Burgdorf, Darryl 266
button element
for reset button 285
for scripts 318
for submit button 283
buttons
for scripts 318
in WML 378-379
navigational 128
radio (in forms) 274
reset (in forms) 284
with image 285
submit (in forms) 282
with image 283
Byte-Order Mark, for Unicode encoding 336
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