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 ...
Nesting HTML Lists
Nesting a list means that a list item can be another list. As long as you keep your tags straight you can nest list within list, within list, and just keep on nesting. More ...
Text Input Box Basics
The most common way to receive information from a visitor to your website is to let them type it into a text box. In this article you learn the basics of using text boxes on your webpages. More ...
How to Debug HTML
As your web browser reads your html code and tries to follow your instruction to lay out the webpage, it is extremely forgiving. But it can't read your mind, that's why you have to type everything according to the specification. 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 ...
HTML abbr and acronym Tag
The abbr and acronym tags allow you to give information about the meaning of an abbreviation or acronym used in your text without disrupting the flow of text by placing the information directly in the text. This is done by putting the information in the tag's title attribute. The browser will then display the information as a tooltip. More ...
The Font Tag
Starting with HTML version 4, the font tag was "deprecated" meaning that at some point in the future it may no longer be supported by some browsers. However, I believe the font tag will be supported long into the future. More ...
Providing Alternate and Title Text for an Image
The alt and title attributes are both used to display text related to an image. When an image fails to load the text in the alt attribute is displayed. The title attribute is use to display popup text. 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 ...
The Heading Tags
Html provides a set of heading tags that allow you set the size of the text in your headings and subheadings. The size ranges from h1 to h6. More ...
Semantic (X)HTML: Markup with Meaning
Contrary to what you may have learned in the earlier years of web development, (X)HTML should not define the look and presentation of a web page (that's the job of CSS). Instead, the purpose of (X)HTML is to provide context and meaning to the content of the document, this is referred to as semantic markup. More ...
Make an HTML Element Editable
HTML5 provides the contenteditable attribute which can make most elements editable. This article provides code to make a div editable. More ...
