HTML & XHTML: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)

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e-resize value of cursor property in CSS2, description of, 350

.edu code, meaning of, 95

element selector, description and example of, 285

element type declarations, overview of, 837-838

element.class selector, description and example of, 285

elements. See also markup tags; individual elements; tag pairs

<!DOCTYPE> statements, 6

accessing with DOM, 456

attaching unique identifiers to, 452

binding style rules to, 270

and characters , 17-18

and CSS, 277-278

empty elements, 4

for logical text formatting, 83

miscellaneous types of, 17

nesting, 21

overview of, 5

physical versus logical types of, 79-80

and scripting access, 452-454

for text appearance, 81

using close tags with, 20

elevation property in CSS2, overview of, 357

<em> (emphasis) element, overview of, 83, 625-626

<embed> (embedded object) element

combining with <noembed> and <object>, 493

overview of, 626-628

referencing Flash files with, 264-265

using with plug-ins, 474-477

using with QuickTime, 257

empty elements, explanation of, 4

encoding values for URLs, table of, 100-101

enctype attribute, using with <form> tags, 367, 370-371

<end> tag, example of, 3

entity, explanation of, 841

environment variables , using for CGI input, 413-416

equal sign (=), using with attributes, 4-5

&ETH; (capital ETH) HTML character entity, description of, 804

&eth; (lowercase eth) HTML character entity, description of, 806

event attributes, reference for, 582-585

event handler attributes, using with XHTML documents, 441-445

events, overview of, 58

extended event attributes, table of, 583-585. See also anchor attributes; attributes

external style sheets, explanation of, 272. See also CSS (cascading style sheets); style sheets