Webpage DOCTYPE Declarations Explained
DOCTYPE is a declaration that should appear as the first line in your webpage code. It defines the standard to which your webpage is coded, and provides information to the browser as to how the code should be interpreted. Make sure your webpage's doctype matches it's coding standard. More ...
Easy Form Design
In this article, I show you how to code your own html submission forms. Maybe you are using a WYSIWYG web page design tool and you can't get your forms to work the way you want them to. Maybe you want to show a web page designer how you want your form to look. More ...
HTML Special Characters - Character Entities
There are certain symbols or characters that you might want to enter in a webpage that you will not find keys for on your keyboard. There are other characters that you should not enter in your webpage text because they can be misinterpreted as code. Instead of entering one of these characters enter its character entity. More ...
HTML Select List Basics
The Select list is one of the most useful controls provided by HTML. This article demonstrates the incredible flexibility of the Select list and provides you with example code to do almost you could want with a Select list. More ...
HTML5 Input Type - URL
With previous versions of HTML you used the form control input type="text" to capture typed data from the user. You had to validate the user's input using string methods and or regular expressions. The HTML5 URL control provides built-in validation of URLs. More ...
How to Troubleshoot an HTML Table
The most common problem with tables is the table being unexpectedly stretched way out of proportion. Another common problem with tables is cell contents not being positioned the way you want them to be. More ...
Use HTML Target Attribute to Specify Where to Open Document
The target attribute, originally created to work with frames, now deprecated, is used to specify where to load a document. More ...
HTML Textarea Basics
In this article, you learn how to code an html textarea element and how to control the text in a textarea, along with an introduction into using CSS, Java Script, and server-side programming with an html textarea element. More ...
Block and Inline HTML Elements
There are two main types of html elements, block and inline. A block element starts and ends with an inherent line break. An inline element starts at a position defined by its sequence in the code. More ...
HTML dfn Tag
The dfn tag does exactly the same thing as the i (Italic) tag. There's really no reason not to use the more common i tag instead. Actually, you should prefer to set a style attribute for the definition word. More ...
HTML SPAN Basics
Whereas a div is a block element which defines a vertical section of a webpage or parent element, a span is an in-line element that is rendered during the line-by-line parsing of the html code for the webpage. Without styles a span provides no visible change. More ...
HTML Frames Basics
A frame creates a separate pane within the browser window. A frame can contain its own webpage, or it can provide a different view of the same page in another frame in the same browser window. More ...
