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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Using col and colgroup to Apply Attributes to a Table Column
You could add html attributes to each cell in a table column, however, with a large table this might be tedious, and it adds unnecessary code. The col tag allows you to define attributes for one or more columns in a table. The colgroup tag allows you apply attributes to a group of columns. More ...
HTML5 Header Element
The header element is one of HTML5's semantic elements. It provides a container for header information. A header element may contain ,logo author, navigation, search, version, copyright, and other such information. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Changing the Size of an Image on Your Webpage
One of the most important procedures in designing a webpage is proper sizing of images. There are two ways to resize an image, use a graphics application, or set the width and height attributes in the html img tag. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
