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HTML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition)
by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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perfect, complete 
This is what other O'Reilly Pocket References should be. It contains everything and should replace all non-design-oriented HTML books
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Relax, IMG is only missing from the first printing
FYI: the IMG tag is only missing from the first printing. (I asked O'Reilly.) Indeed, a recent copy of the book is not missing it anymore. (Back of the title page, bottom right corner has a date: [11/04]. My other copy, which is missing IMG, has [6/02] in this spot.) A quick check shows that they have fixed some, but not all, of the errata (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/htmlpr2/errata/).
But this book is still totally worth having. It's small enough to leave lying around the desktop, where its big... more info
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so-so (buggy) 
I am generally a fan of Pocket References. But this one seems poorly debugged. One example is claiming "align" is deprecated for . Turns out, this bug has made it onto the Errata page for the book
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/htmlpr2/errata/ ,
but only under "Unconfirmed error reports and comments from readers." If you write a buggy book, at least do the work to confirm bugs and fix them in new printings!
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Must Have Pocket Reference
If you are designing web pages, you must have this book. That is all there is to it. This is a small compact reference book (hence the title) which lists the HTML tags in alphabetical order, shows if they are supported by the three major browsers (IE,NN,Opera) and if they are part of the w3c spec HTML 4.01. Information is given for the applicable attributes for each tag. Once you know it (especially if you follow w3c standards) HTML is a simple and easy language to use.. however, having a easy to use... more info
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