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 ...
Set Form Controls Tab Order With tabindex Attribute
The default tab order is the order in which the controls appear in the html code. You may prefer to set the tab order yourself. To set the tab order give each form element a tabindex attribute and set their number values to the order you want the tabs to work. 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 ...
HTML5 role Attribute
AJAX applications can update a webpage without the user realizing the content has changed. The role attribute can be used to inform the accessibility application that the webpage content has changed. More ...
What is HTML?
The first HTML was used in 1989 by the physicist Tim Berners-Lee working at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva Switzerland. It was used to share documents. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aligning an Image on Your Web Page
By default the baseline of the image is placed on the same baseline as the text. However you can set the align attribute to change where the baseline of the image will be located relative to the baseline of the text. More ...
Code For a Basic 2-Column Fluid Webpage Layout
In this article, I provide simple code for a 2-column webpage that does not use a table, but does use some of the latest HTML5 semantic elements. One nice thing about this design, besides the fact that it uses minimal html code, is that it creates a fluid layout. More ...
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 ...
