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 ...
How to Write and Run HTML
Fancy WYSIWYG web design applications generate voluminous amounts of unnecessary code. For these examples use a basic ASCII text editor. More ...
Divide a Table Into Head (thead), Body (tbody), and Footer (tfoot) Sections
The html thead, tbody, and tfoot tags allow you to divide a table into sections. In this article I show you how to accomplish this in order to remove cell borders in the table header and add a different color to the table header and footers. 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 ...
HTML5 Input Type - Email
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 email control provides built-in validation of email addresses. More ...
The HTML Head Tag
This article describes the structure of a webpage document and the html head tag. More ...
The HTML BODY tag
Two common body tag attributes are leftmargin and topmargin. Another common body tag attribute is bgcolor. The body tag background attribute can be used to set a webpage's background to a texture or image. The bgproperties attribute set with the value fixed causes the tiled background image to remain stationary while the webpage text is scrolled. More ...
HTML Definition List
There are three kinds of lists; the ordered list, the definition list and the unordered list which is commonly known as the bulleted list. This article shows you how to code a definition list. More ...
Easiest HTML Calculator Eample Code
This example is meant for educational purposes only, and that is why the code is kept to bare minimum. Were it an actual published calculator it would need, among other things, error handling and validation code added. As an example for educational purposes it's excellent. More ...
Using del and ins Tags to Mark Up Editing on HTML Page
As society moves away from printed documents and towards online webpages, a way is needed to mark deletions and insertions on html pages similar to was done on paper documents. That's where the del and ins html tags come in. More ...
HTML Horizontal Rule
A horizontal rule created by the hr tag creates a horizontal line that can can be used to break a webpage into sections. More ...
Add an Image to a Web Page
Adding an image to a webpage makes it much more interesting. But for the image to appear, you have to get its path right. Using the methods described here, you have no problem defining the correct path. More ...
