P
p element 66
padding 188
cells 230-231
padding property 188
in tables 230-231
page-break properties 200
page layout 175-196, 215-233
3D positioning 192
absolute positioning 179
aligning text 171
backgrounds 182-183, 354
borders 186-187
centering 171, 191, 222, 356
clearing floats 195
color 182-183, 184, 354
columns 365
cursors 185
displaying and hiding elements 178
fixed positioning 180
floating elements 194-195
height 190
line breaks 170, 358-359
margins 189
and width 191
with (X)HTML 357
overflow 193
padding 188
pixel shims 364
relative positioning 181
vertical alignment 196
width 190-191
and floating elements 194
with old (X)HTML 353-367
with styles 175-196
with tables 215-233
page property 202
Page Source, command 57
Paint Shop Pro for Windows 83, 464
paragraphs
aligning 66
centering 66, 356
space between 66, 188, 189
starting new 66
param element 298, 300, 301, 303, 304, 306, 307
parentheses
URLs in CSS 45
parents and children 29, 177
and height and width 190
and inheritance 42
selectors 139
parsers, XML 19
password boxes 273
paths, in URLs 34
percentages, in CSS 45
Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition 267
Perl
and CGI scripts 264
for processing data in WML 389
Photoshop. See Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
PHP 264
physical formatting 74
picas, in CSS 45
pixel shims 364
in table cells 221
pixels
and print style sheets 199
font size 162
in CSS 44
in (X)HTML 27
size vs resolution 86
placing images on page 104
players 294-295
getting for visitors 296
plugins 31, 294-295
PNG
about 84-88
compression 87, 88
disadvantages 88
transparency 93-94
pointer, changing with CSS 185
points
in CSS 45
in print style sheets 199
portfolio, showing automatically 309
position property
with absolute value 179
with fixed value 180
with relative value 181
positioning 177, 179-181
in 3D 192
markers 209, 210
vertically 196
with layers 366-367
post method 269, 279
postfield element, in WML 388-389
pound symbol (#). See Symbols section
pre element 77
predefined colors 46
predefined values 27
case of 36
in CSS, and quotation marks 44
preformatted text 77
prev element, in WML 376-377, 378-379
Print Preview option 199
print style sheets 197-202
page breaks
page breaks 200
specifying 198
suggestions for 199
privacy, maintaining 420
problem solving 393-404
borders 187
browser displays code 400
browser incompatibilities 402
CSS checklist 397
getting help 404
HTML checklist 395
images that don't appear 401
style sheets 155
tables and frames in Netscape 4.x 403
validating your code 394
XHTML checklist 396
programming buttons, in WML 378-379
programs for writing (X)HTML 462
progressive JPEG 99
properties (in CSS)
complete list 439-446
definition 41
possible values for 44-46
proprietary elements
and DOCYTPE declarations 61
public forms 271
publicizing your site. See Web pages, getting visitors
publishing 405-413
on America Online 412
punctuation symbols 452-453
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