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Web Design in a Nutshell, eMatter Edition

Index

Symbols
& (ampersand) in form name=value
pairs, 234

for SSI commands, 253
for XSSI commands, 256

• (asterisk) for frameset sizes, 213
  : (colon)
  pseudo-selectors (style sheets), 397
  style sheet declarations, 392

  (hash mark)

  
  

  for ID selectors, 397
  in pathnames, 134
  -Law (.au) file format, 336
  % (percent sign)
  color equivalents, 32, 304
  font sizes, 402
  percentage sizes for framesets, 213
  SSI time formats, 260
  table dimensions, 184

  
  

. (period)
in alternate text, 24
CLASS selectors, 397
.. for parent directory, 53
/ (slash)
encoding in URLs, 235
in URLs, 49, 51

Numbers

3-D shading of horizontal rules, 149,

156, 497

8-bit character encodings, 458

8-bit indexed color, 266

8-bit palette images, 293

8-bit transparency, 296

16-bit character encodings, 459

16-bit displays, 304

24-bit color, 283

A

<a> tags, 130–135, 468

linking to audio files, 338, 343–344

linking to video files, 355

pseudo-classes with, 398

abbr attribute (<td>, <th>), 174, 484

<abbr> tags, 25, 468

abbreviations, denoting, 25

“above the fold” design, 23

absbottom, absmiddle values (align),

161

absolute

font sizes, 402

pathnames, 51–53

positioning (style sheets), 420

URLs, 133