Musciano C., Kennedy B. HTML: The Definitive Guide

3rd Edition. — O'Relly, 1998. —576 p. — ISBN 1-56592-492-4.
This book is a complete guide to creating documents using HTML, starting with basic syntax and semantics, and finishing with broad style directions that should help you create beautiful, informative, accessible documents that you'll be proud to deliver to your browsers.
Our goal in writing this book is to help you become fluent in HTML, fully versed in the language's syntax, semantics, and elements of style. We take the natural learning approach with examples: good ones, of course. We cover every element of the currently accepted version (4.0) of the language in detail, as well as all of the current "extensions" supported by the popular HTML browsers, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with all the other elements.