This book covers it all. I just wish, as I am a novice to web design, that there were more real life examples to explain the elements. It was very technical and sometimes I got lost in the jargon.

This is a decent book from which to learn HTML if you happen to be under the age of twelve, or if you're ignorant enough about computers that you need step-by-step instructions to do things like copy and paste text. But if, like me, you're an adult who has not spent the last fifteen years living in the mountains scrupulously avoiding all contact with technology, chances are that you'll find this book to be an insufferably childish approach to the subject of web design.

Plus, despite the fact that this edition of the text was released in 2007, the authors introduce things that have been deprecated for years, and even some things that have never been part of any HTML standard and are thus hit-and-miss when it comes to browser support.

Get something else. Anything else. A properly written text will give you a lot more information, organize it far more efficiently, refrain from teaching you all kinds of things that you'll have to unlearn if you want your pages to be standards-compliant, and not bury you in instructions and pictures that you don't need, and end-of-chapter exercises that any reasonably intelligent middle school student could accomplish with ease. Ugh.

I haven't got too far, it gives pleasant assignments and lab-projects to learn HTML. I am more interested in CSS and such, but haven't got too far into the book to see if this is covered. I bought this as a textbook for a class in HTML I am taking.