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 ...
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 ...
Setting the Number of Items Visible in a Select List
An HTML Select list is a form control used to create a drop-down list of items from which the user can select. The select list can appear as a drop-down list, or by setting its size property it can appear as a scrolling list. More ...
Form Input Labels
Using the label element with your form input elements rather than just placing text next to them is a good idea that makes your web site more accessible. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
HTML Textarea Basics
In this article, you learn how to code an html textarea element and how to control the text in a textarea, along with an introduction into using CSS, Java Script, and server-side programming with an html textarea element. 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 ...
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 ...
When to Use the nofollow Attribute value
The majority of blogs allow visitors to add comments to a post. However, the moment this comment feature was invented, spammers started to take advantage of it. The nofollow attribute value is used to communicate that you don't want search engines to index the content pointed to by the link. More ...
