excellent HTML book?

[Mutley2003]

This may be a sign of my age, but when I write code in a language I don't write often, I like to have a good reference book next to me... to remind me of syntax and gotchas etc, not a tutorial or how to in 7 days or

I don't need a book covering javascript (got the latest rhino book) or CSS (got a programmers ref on that) and if I lived anywhere near a big bookstore I would go browse the HTML books. I have an old version of the O'Reilly Koala book (Chuck Musciano etc) but when I looked at the website for the latest version it seemed as if it was still going on about kumquats and not a lot had changed since the 1996 version.

Any recommendations for an up to date (X)HTML reference book?

[MatthewHSE]

Here's the HTML reference I used when I was learning:

[w3schools.com...]

However, HTML is simple enough that I found it easier to memorize a small set of tags, which were used for 99% of the work I was doing. As time went by I learned more tags by memory, until now I don't think there are any that I can't remember offhand. About ten or twelve tags should be enough to start with. Memorizing the tags and getting by without the need for reference results in the ability to write a page much faster.

[tedster]

I bought a good HTML reference about two years back, just because I thought it would be good to have on hand. I never use it - any questions I may have, I research online.

Not so with other technologies - CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, MySql, Access, .NET and so on. They're all complex enough that having a reference book around has proved useful for me. But HTML is just not all that.

[ronin]

When I was starting out, I always used to use the Barebones HTML crib sheet by Kevin Werbach. No idea if it's still online or, even if it is, if it's up to date, but if it is, it's well formatted and very usable.

I think the fact that I can still remember the author's name about four years after I last used the resource is a testament to how much it made an impression on me.

[Nym_Holland]

Bare Bones HTML has changed a bit but it's still around, and still useful: [werbach.com...]