[ILUG] [Q] HTML4 + CSS2 (+ wml(1) ?) on-line tutorial?

[Dave O'Connor]

w3schools.com is pretty good. not perfect but the best I've seen. Also
to get rid of tables for forms check out the label tag with
display:block; set for form elements. 

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 20:08 +0100, Brian Foster wrote:
>  does anyone happen to know of a decent on-line (or, preferably,
>  downloadable) tutorial about producing web pages (or documents)
>  targeted at HMTL4.x _plus_ CSS2.y ?  (and if it also discussed
>  using a front-end --- wml(1) is the one I'm playing with at the
>  moment --- that be nice.)
> 
>  I want to move away from using a mixture of tables and physical
>  controls (e.g., <I>) to logical formatting (for _static_ pages).
>  CSS (esp. 2.y) gives me the logical formatting, and `wml' makes
>  it less painful to write the HTML, but at the moment I am still
>  very much at sea on how to actually _do_ things, or (rather more
>  importantly) _why_ something is / isn't the best way of doing
>  something.  (I also tend to think in terms of LaTeX and troff(1),
>  both of which are still my documentation engines of choice, but
>  which perhaps doesn't help?)
> 
>  please note I am not looking for a GUI (e.g., bluefish, the OOo
>  web thingie, asWedit(?), Qanta Plus, (others?)) --- I've played
>  with all those listed and decided I very prefer a real editor.
>  what I want is, at the ‘raw’ HTML+CSS level, a manual(+examples)
>  on formating.
> 
>  I did a brief search using Google™ (brief 'cuz I starting having
>  e-mail problems...), and didn't spot anything.  any pointers or
>  suggestions?
> 
> cheers!
> 	-blf-
> 
> p.s.  I am well aware of reports Internet Exploder doesn't handle
>      CSS2 very well.  I don't care (too much --- I do concur with
>      “viewable with any browser” campaign).
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