I highly recommend O'Reilly's Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. It's written for learning instead of reference, and focuses on modern best practices. It antic

I highly recommend O'Reilly's Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. It's written for learning instead of reference, and focuses on modern best practices. It anticipates and answers most questions a beginner might have. http://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/ http://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/