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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Text Features
There is a series of html tags that you can use to configure features of your text like boldness, italics, strike though, underline, and more. More ...
HTML Linking Basics
Many people have difficulty linking their webpage to other webpages and media. In this article, you learn how to create relative links from any webpage to any other webpage in a directory structure, even to a specific location in another webpage. Plus you learned about a couple of useful link tag attributes. 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 ...
How to Make a Table Scroll
It's very common for a table to contain more data than can be displayed on a webpage without scrolling the webpage. A large table would be much easier to deal with if the table contents itself could scroll, rather than having to scroll the entire webpage. In this article, I'll show you exactly how to accomplish that. More ...
Adding Space Around an Image
With the html hspace and vspace attributes you can control the space around an image. Although these attributes were deprecated in HTML 4.01, they still work in all modern browsers. More ...
XHTML Basics
HTML and XHML look very similar. But HTML was designed long before XHTML and therefore is less rigorous. In other words, HTML does not require the coder to follow strict rules, while if you don't strictly follow the rules while coding XHTML, it just plain won't work. 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 ...
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 ...
Checkbox Basics
A checkbox is a type of input element for a form. A checkbox is similar to a radio button except that a radio button can be part of a group, so a previously selected radio button automatically de-selects. Whereas checkboxes are each independent so you can have multiple checkboxes checked at the same time. More ...
