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Contents
1. Introduction to HTML
2. HTML Basics Tags
3. HTML Attributes
4. HTML formatting Tags
5. Presentational tags
6. HTML Phrase tags
7. HTML comments
8. HTML Fonts
9. HTML Marquees
10. HTML Images
11. HTML Text Links
12. HTML Images Links
13. HTML Email Links
14. HTML Tables
15. HTML Frames
16. HTML Lists
17. HTML Layouts
18. HTML Colors
19. HTML Forms
20. HTML Backgrounds
21. HTML Embed Multimedia
22. HTML Styles
23.
HTML Scripts
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1. INTRODUCTION TO HTML
1.1 What is HTML?
HTML is a language for describing web pages.
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup
language
A markup language is a set of markup tags
HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages
1.2 HTML Tags:
HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags
HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like
<html>
HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>
The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the
end tag
Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing
tags
1.3 HTML Documents = Web Pages
HTML documents describe web pages
HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
HTML documents are also called web pages
The purpose of a web browser (like Internet Explorer or
Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web
pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the
tags to interpret the content of the page:
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
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2. HTML Basic Tags:
The basic structure for all HTML documents is simple and
should include the following minimum elements or tags:
<html> - The main container for HTML pages
<head> - The container for page header information
<title> - The title of the page
<body> - The main body of the page
Remember that before an opening <html> tag, an XHTML
document can contain the optional XML declaration, and it should
always contain a DOCTYPE declaration indicating which version of
XHTML it uses.
Now we will explain each of these tags one by one. In this
tutorial you will find the terms element and tag are used
interchangeably.
2.1 The <html> Element:
The <html> element is the containing element for the whole
HTML document. Each HTML document should have one <html>
and each document should end with a closing </html> tag.
Following two elements appear as direct children of an <html>
element:
* <head>
* <body>
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As such, start and end HTML tags enclose all the other
HTML tags you use to describe the Web page.
2.2 The <head> Element:
The <head> element is just a container for all other header
elements. It should be the first thing to appear after the opening
<html> tag.
Each <head> element should contain a <title> element
indicating the title of the document, although it may also contain
any combination of the following elements, in any order:
* The <base> tag is used to areate a "base" url for all links
on the page. Check HTML Base tag.
* The <object> tag is designed to include images, JavaScript
objects, Flash animations, MP3 files, QuickTime movies and other
components of a page. Check HTML Object tag.
* The <link> tag is used to link to an external file, such as a
style sheet or JavaScript file. Check HTML Link tag.
* The <style> tag is used to include CSS rules inside the
document. Check HTML Style tag
* The <script> tag is used to include JAVAScript or
VBScript inside the document. Check HTML Script tag.
* The <meta> tag includes information about the document
such as keywords and a description, which are particularly helpful
for search applications. Check HTML Meta tag.
Example:
Following is the example of head tag.
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<head>
<title>HTML Basic tags</title>
<meta name="Keywords" content="HTML, Web Pages" />
<meta name="description" content="HTML Basic Tags" />
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tp.css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
uacct = "UA-232293";
urchinTracker();
</script>
</head>
2.3 The <title> Element:
You should specify a title for every page that you write
inside the <title> element. This element is a child of the <head>
element). It is used in several ways:
* It displays at the very top of a browser window.
* It is used as the default name for a bookmark in browsers
such as IE and Netscape.
* It is used by search engines that use its content to help
index pages.
Therefore it is important to use a title that really describes
the content of your site. The <title> element should contain only the
text for the title and it may not contain any other elements.
Example:
Here is the example of using title tag.
<head>
<title>HTML Basic tags</title>
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</head>
2.4 The <body> Element:
The <body> element appears after the <head> element and
contains the part of the Web page that you actually see in the main
browser window, which is sometimes referred to as body content.
A <body> element may contain anything from a couple of
paragraphs under a heading to more complicated layouts containing
forms and tables.
Most of what you will be learning in this and the following
five chapters will be written between the opening <body> tag and
closing </body> tag.
Example:
Here is the example of using body tag.
<body>
<p>This is a paragraph tag.</p>
</body>
2.5 Putting all together:
Now if we will put all these tags together, it will constitute a
complete HTML document as follows:
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Basic tags</title>
<meta name="Keywords" content="HTML, Web
Pages" />
<meta name="description" content="HTML Basic
Tags" />
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com" />
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<link
rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
href="tp.css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-232293";
urchinTracker();
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is a paragraph tag.</p>
</body>
</html>
2.6 HTML Meta Tags
HTML lets you specify metadata - information about a
document rather than document content -in a variety of ways. The
META element can be used to include name/value pairs describing
properties of the HTML document, such as author, Expiry Date, a
list of key words, author etc.
The <meta> tag is an empty element and so does not have a
closing tag, rather, <meta> tags carry information within attributes,
so you need a forward slash character at the end of the element.
Metadata provided by using meta tag is a very important part
of the web. It can assist search engines in finding the best match
when a user performs a search. Search engines will often look at any
metadata attached to a page - especially keywords - and rank it
higher than another page with less relevant metadata, or with no
metadata at all.
2.6.1 Adding Meta Tags to Your Documents:
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You can add metadata to your web pages by placing <meta>
tags between the <head> and </head> tags. The can include the
following attributes:
Attriute
Description
Name
Name for the property. Can
be anything. Examples
include,keywords,description,author,
revised, generator etc.
content
Specifies the property's value.
scheme
Specifies a scheme to use to interpret the
property's value (as declared in the
content attribute).
http-equiv
Used for http response message headers.
For example http-equiv can be used to
refresh the page or to set a cookie.
Values include content-type, expires,
refresh and set-cookie.
NOTE: Core attributes for all the elements are discussed in next
chapter.
Meta Tag Examples:
Let's see few important usage of Meta Tags.
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We specify keywords which will be used by the search
engine to search a web page. So using following tag you can specify
important keywords related to your page.
<head>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, meta
tags, metadata" />
</head>
2.7 Document Description:
This is again important information and many search engine
use this information as well while searching a web page. So you
should give an appropriate description of the page.
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Learn about
Meta Tags."/>
</head>
2.8 Document Revision date:
This information tells about last time the document was
updated.
<head>
<meta
name="revised"
content="HTML,
6/12/2009" />
</head>
2.9 Document Refreshing:
You can specify a duration after which your web page will
keep refreshing. If you want your page keep refreshing after every
10 seconds then use the following syntax.
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<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10" />
</head>
2.10 Page Redirection:
You can specify a page redirection using Meta Tag.
Following is an example of redirecting current page to another page.
You can specify a duration after which page will be redirected.
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="10; url=http://www.tutorialspoint.com" />
</head>
If you don't provide a duration then page will be redirected
immediately.
2.11 Setting Cookies:
You can use Meta Tag to store cookies on client side later
information can be used by then Web Server to track a site visitor.
<head>
<meta http-equiv="cookie" content="userid=xyz;
expires=Wednesday, 08-Aug-00 23:59:59
GMT; />
</head>
If you do not include the expiration date and time, the cookie
is considered a session cookie and will be deleted when the user
exits the browser.
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3. HTML Attributes
Attributes are another important part of HTML markup. An
attribute is used to define the characteristics of an element and is
placed inside the element's opening tag. All attributes are made up
of two parts: a name and a value:
* The name is the property you want to set. For example, the
<font> element in the example carries an attribute whose name is
face, which you can use to indicate which typeface you want the
text to appear in.
* The value is what you want the value of the property to be.
The first example was supposed to use the Arial typeface, so the
value of the face attribute is Arial.
The value of the attribute should be put in double quotation
marks, and is separated from the name by the equals sign. You can
see that a color for the text has been specified as well as the
typeface in this <font> element:
3.1 The id Attribute:
The id attribute can be used to uniquely identify any element
within a page ( or style sheet ). There are two primary reasons that
you might want to use an id attribute on an element:
* If an element carries an id attribute as a unique identifier it
is possible to identify just that element and its content.
* If you have two elements of the same name within a Web
page (or style sheet), you can use the id attribute to distinguish
between elements that have the same name.
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We will discuss style sheet in separate tutorial. For now, the
id attribute could be used to distinguish between two paragraph
elements, like so:
<p id="html">This para explains what is HTML</p>
<p id="css">This para explains what is Casecading
Style Sheet</p>
Note that there are some special rules for the value of the id
attribute, it must:
* Begin with a letter (A.Z or a.z) and can then be followed
by any number of letters, digits (0.9), hyphens, underscores, colons,
and periods.
* Remain unique within that document; no two attributes
may have the same value within that HTML document.
3.2 The title Attribute:
The title attribute gives a suggested title for the element.
They syntax for the title attribute is similar as explained for id
attribute:
The behavior of this attribute will depend upon the element
that carries it, although it is often displayed as a tooltip or while the
element is loading.
For example:
<h4
title="Hello
HTML!">Titled
Example</h4>
Above code will generate following result:
Titled Heading Tag Example
3.3 The class Attribute:
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Tag
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The class attribute is used to associate an element with a
style sheet, and specifies the class of element. You learn more about
the use of the class attribute when you will learn Casecading Style
Sheet (CSS). So for now you can avoid it.
The value of the attribute may also be a space-separated list
of class names.
For example:
class="className1 className2 className3"
3.4 The style Attribute:
The style attribute allows you to specify CSS rules within
the element. For example:
<p
style="font-family:
arial;
color:#FF0000;">Some
text...</p>
3.4.1 Internationalization Attributes:
There are three internationalization attributes, which are
available to most (although not all) XHTML elements.
* dir
* lang
* xml:lang
3.4.1.1 The dir Attribute:
The dir attribute allows you to indicate to the browser the
direction in which the text should flow. The dir attribute can take
one of two values, as you can see in the table that follows:
Value
ltr
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Meaning
Left to right (the default
value)
Right
to
languages
left
such
(for
as
Hebrew or Arabic that
are read right to left)
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Example:
<html dir=rtl>
<head>
<title>Display Directions</title>
</head>
<body>
This is how IE 5 renders right-to-left directed text.
</body>
</html>
When dir attribute is used within the <html> tag, it
determines how text will be presented within the entire document.
When used within another tag, it controls the text's direction for just
the content of that tag.
3.4.1.2 The lang Attribute:
The lang attribute allows you to indicate the main language
used in a document, but this attribute was kept in HTML only for
backwards compatibility with earlier versions of HTML. This
attribute has been replaced by the xml:lang attribute in new
XHTML documents.
When included within the <html> tag, the lang attribute
specifies the language you've generally used within the document.
When used within other tags, the lang attribute specifies the
language you used within that tag's content. Ideally, the browser will
use lang to better render the text for the user.
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The values of the lang attribute are ISO-639 standard twocharacter language codes.Check HTML Language Codes: ISO 639
for a complete list of language codes.
Example:
<html lang=en>
<head>
<title>English Language Page</title>
</head>
<body>
This page is using English Language
</body>
</html>
3.4.1.3 The xml:lang Attribute:
The xml:lang attribute is the XHTML replacement for the
lang attribute. The value of the xml:lang attribute should be an ISO639 country code as mentioned in previous section.
3.5 Generic Attributes:
Here's a table of some other attributes that are readily usable
with many of HTML's tags.
Attribute
align
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Function
right,
Horizontally
center
left,
aligns tags
HTML
Vertically
valign
top, middle,
bottom
aligns tags
within an
HTML
element.
numeric,
bgcolor
hexidecimal
,
RGB
values
Places a
background
color behind
an
element
Places an
backgroun
d
background
URL
image
behind an
element
Names an
element
id
User
for use with
Defined
Cascading
Style
Sheets.
Classifies an
element
class
User
for use with
Defined
Cascading
Style
Sheets.
Specifies
width
the
Numeric
width
of
Value
tables, images,
or table cells.
height
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Specifies
the
HTML
height
Value
of
tables, images,
or table cells.
title
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Defined
"Pop-up" title
for
your elements
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4. HTML Formatting Tags
If you want people to read what you have written, then
structuring your text well is even more important on the Web than
when writing for print. People have trouble reading wide, long,
paragraphs of text on Web sites unless they are broken up well.
This section will teach you basic text formatting elements
like heading elements and paragraph elements.
4.1 Whitespace and Flow:
Before you start to mark up your text, it is best to understand
what HTML does when it comes across spaces and how browsers
treat long sentences and paragraphs of text.
You might think that if you put several consecutive spaces
between two words, the spaces would appear between those words
onscreen, but this is not the case; by default, only one space will be
displayed. This is known as white space collapsing. So you need to
use special HTML tags to create multiple spaces.
Similarly, if you start a new line in your source document, or
you have consecutive empty lines, these will be ignored and simply
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treated as one space. So you need to use special HTML tags to
create more number of empty lines.
4.2 Create Headings - The <hn> Elements:
Any documents starts with a heading. You use different sizes
for your headings. HTML also have six levels of headings, which
use the elements <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, and <h6>. While
displaying any heading, browser adds one line before and after that
heading.
Example:
<h1>This is heading 1</h1>
<h2>This is heading 2</h2>
<h3>This is heading 3</h3>
<h4>This is heading 4</h4>
<h5>This is heading 5</h5>
<h6>This is heading 6</h6>
This will display following result:
This is heading 1
This is heading 2
This is heading 3
This is heading 4
This is heading 5
This is heading 6
4.3 Create Paragraph - The <p> Element:
The <p> element offers a way to structure your text. Each
paragraph of text should go in between an opening <p> and closing
</p> tag as shown below in the example:
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<p>Here is a paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a second paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a third paragraph of text.</p>
This will produce following result:
Here is a paragraph of text.
Here is a second paragraph of text.
Here is a third paragraph of text.
You can use align attribute to align your paragraphs.
<p align="left">This is left aligned.</p>
<p align="center">This is center aligned.</p>
<p align="right">This is right aligned.</p>
<p align="justify">This is jutified. This works when
you have multiple lines in your paragraph and you
want to justfy all the lines so that they can look more
nice.</p>
This will produce following result:
This is left aligned.
This is center aligned.
This is right aligned.
This is jutified. This works when you have multiple lines in
your paragraph and you want to justfy all the lines so that they can
look more nice.
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4.4 Create Line Breaks - The <br /> Element:
Whenever you use the <br /> element, anything following it
starts on the next line. This tag is an example of an empty element,
where you do not need opening and closing tags, as there is nothing
to go in between them.
Note: The <br /> element has a space between the characters
br and the forward slash. If you omit this space, older browsers will
have trouble rendering the line break, while if you miss the forward
slash character and just use <br> it is not valid XHTML
Example:
Hello<br />
You come most carefully upon your hour.<br />
Thanks<br />
Shashi
This will produce following result:
Hello
You come most carefully upon your hour.
Thanks
Shashi
4.5 Centring Content - The <center> Element:
You can use <center> tag to put any content in the center of
the page or any table cell.
Example:
<p>This is not in the center.</p>
<center>
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<p>This is in the center.</p>
</center>
This will produce following result:
This is not in the center.
This is in the center.
4.6 Nonbreaking Spaces:
Suppose you were to use the phrase "12 Angry Men." Here
you would not want a browser to split the "12" and "Angry" across
two lines:
A good example of this technique appears in the movie "12
Angry Men."
In cases where you do not want the client browser to break
text, you should use a nonbreaking space entity ( ) instead of
a normal space. For example, when coding the "12 Angry Men"
paragraph, you would use something similar to the following code:
<p>A good example of this technique appears in the
movie "12 Angry Men."</p>
4.7 Soft Hyphens:
Occasionally, you will want to allow a browser to hyphenate
long words to better justify a paragraph. For example, consider the
following code and its resulting output.
<p style="text-align: justify;"> The morbid fear of the
number 13, or triskaidekaphobia, has plagued some important
historic figures like Mahamiya and Nanao.</p>
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In cases where you want a client browser to be able to
hyphenate a word if necessary, use the soft hyphen entity (­) to
specify where a word should be hyphenated. So above example
should be written as follows:
<p style="text-align: justify;"> Example for soft hyphen The
morbid
fear
of
the
number
13,
or
tri­skai­deka­phobia, has plagued some important
historic figures like Mahamiya and Nanao.</p>
This will produce following result:
Example for soft hyphen - The morbid fear of the number
13, or triskaidekaphobia, has plagued some important historic
figures like Mahamiya and Nanao.
NOTE: This may notwork with some web browsers.
4.8 Preserve Formatting - The <pre> Element:
Sometimes you want your text to follow the exact format of
how it is written in the HTML document. In those cases, you can
use the preformatted tag (<pre>).
Any text between the opening <pre> tag and the closing
</pre> tag will preserve the formatting of the source document.
<pre>
function testFunction( strText ){
alert (strText)
}
</pre>
This will produce following result:
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function testFunction( strText ){
alert (strText)
}
4.9 Horizontal Rules - The <hr /> Element
Horizontal rules are used to visually break up sections of a
document. The <hr> tag creates a line from the current position in
the document to the right margin and breaks the line accordingly.
For example you may want to give a line between two
paragraphs as follows:
<p>This is paragraph one and should be on top</p>
<hr />
<p>This is paragraph two and should be at
bottom</p>
This will produce following result:
This is paragraph one and should be on top
This is paragraph two and should be at bottom
Again <hr /> tag is an example of an empty element, where
you do not need opening and closing tags, as there is nothing to go
in between them.
Note: The <hr /> element has a space between the characters
br and the forward slash. If you omit this space, older browsers will
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have trouble rendering the line break, while if you miss the forward
slash character and just use <hr> it is not valid XHTML.
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5. Presentational Tags
If you use a word processor, you are familiar with the ability
to make text bold, italicized, or underlined; these are just three of
the ten options available to indicate how text can appear in HTML
and XHTML.
5.1 Bold Text - The <b> Element:
Anything that appears in a <b>...</b> element is displayed
in bold, like the word bold here:
<p>The following word uses a <b>bold</b>
typeface.</p>
This will produce following result:
The following word uses a bold typeface.
5.2 Italic Text - The <i> Element:
Anything that appears in a <i>...</i> element is displayed in
italicized, like the word italicized here:
<p>The
following
<i>italicized</i> typeface.</p>
This will produce following result:
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uses
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The following word uses a italicized typeface.
5.3 Underlined Text - The <u> Element:
Anything that appears in a <u>...</u> element is displayed
with underline, like the word underlined here:
<p>The
following
word
uses
<u>underlined</u> typeface.</p>
This will produce following result:
The following word uses a underlined typeface.
5.4 Strike Text - The <strike> Element:
Anything that appears in a <strike>...</strike> element is
displayed with strikethrough, which is a thin line through the text:
<p>The following word uses a
<strike>strikethrough</strike> typeface.</p>
This will produce following result:
The following word uses a strikethrough typeface.
5.5 Monospaced font - The <tt> Element:
The content of a <tt> element is written in monospaced font.
Most fonts are known as variable-width fonts because different
letters are of different widths (for example, the letter m is wider than
the letter i). In a monospaced font, however, each letter is the same
width.
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<p>The
following
word
uses
<tt>monospaced</tt> typeface.</p>
This will produce following result:
The following word uses a monospaced typeface.
5.6 Superscript Text - The <sup> Element:
The content of a <sup> element is written in superscript; the
font size used is the same size as the characters surrounding it but is
displayed half a character.s height above the other characters.
<p>The
following
word
uses
<sup>superscript</sup> typeface.</p>
This will produce following result:
The following word uses a superscript typeface.
5.7 Subscript Text - The <sub> Element:
The content of a <sub> element is written in subscript; the
font size used is the same as the characters surrounding it, but is
displayed half a character.s height beneath the other characters.
<p>The following word uses a <sub>subscript</sub>
typeface.</p>
This will produce following result:
The following word uses a subscript typeface.
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5.8 Larger Text - The <big> Element:
The content of the <big> element is displayed one font size
larger than the rest of the text surrounding it.
<p>The following word uses a <big>big</big>
typeface.</p>
This will produce following result:
The following word uses a big typeface.
5.9 Smaller Text - The <small> Element:
The content of the <small> element is displayed one font
size smaller than the rest of the text surrounding it.
<p>The following word uses a
<small>small</small> typeface.</p>
This will produce following result:
The following word uses a small typeface.
5.10 Grouping - The <div> and <span> Elements :
The <div> and <span> elements allow you to group together
several elements to create sections or subsections of a page.
For example, you might want to put all of the footnotes on a
page within a <div> element to indicate that all of the elements
within that <div> element relate to the footnotes. You might then
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attach a style to this <div> element so that they appear using a
special set of style rules.
The <div> element is used to group block-level elements
together:
<div id="menu" align="middle" >
<a href="/index.htm">HOME</a> |
<a href="/about/contact_us.htm">CONTACT</a> |
<a href="/about/index.htm">ABOUT</a>
</div>
<div id="content" align="left" bgcolor="white">
<h5>Content Articles</h5>
<p>Actual content goes here.....</p> </div>
This will produce following result:
HOME | CONTACT | ABOUT
Content Articles
Actual content goes here.....
The <span> element, on the other hand, can be used to group
inline elements only. So, if you had a part of a sentence or paragraph
you wanted to group together you could use the <span> element.
<div><p>This
is
the
example
of
<span
style="color:green">span tag</span> and the <span
style="color:purple">div
tag</span>
alongwith
CSS</p></div>
This will produce following result:
This is the example of span tag and the div tag
alongwith CSS
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These tags are commonly used with CSS to allow you to
attach a style to a section of a page.
6. HTML Phrase Tags
While some of these phrase elements are displayed in a similar manner
to the <b>, <i>, <pre>, and <tt> elements you have already seen, they are
designed for specific purposes. For example, the <em> and <strong> elements
give text emphasis and strong emphasis respectively and there are several
elements for marking up quotes.
6.1 Emphasized Text - The <em> Element:
The content of an <em> element is intended to be a point of emphasis in
your document, and it is usually displayed in italicized text. The kind of
emphasis intended is on words such as "must" in the following sentence:
<p>You <em>must</em> remember to close elements in
XHTML.</p>
This will produce following result:
You must remember to close elements in XHTML.
6.2 Strong Text - The <strong> Element:
The <strong> element is intended to show strong emphasis for its
content; stronger emphasis than the <em> element. As with the <em> element,
the <strong> element should be used only when you want to add strong
emphasis to part of a document.
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<p>You <strong>must</strong> remember to close
elements in XHTML.</p>
This will produce following result:
You must remember to close elements in XHTML.
6.3 Text Abbreviation - The <abbr> Element :
You can indicate when you are using an abbreviated form by placing the
abbreviation between opening <abbr> and closing </abbr> tags.
<p>I
have
friend
called
<abbr
title="Abhishek">Abhy</abbr>.</p>
This will produce following result:
I have a friend called Abhy.
6.4 Using Acronym - The <acronym> Element :
The <acronym> element allows you to indicate that the text between an
opening <acronym> and closing </acronym> element is an acronym.
When possible use a title attribute whose value is the full version of the
acronyms on the <acronym> element, and if the acronym is in a different
language, include an xml:lang attribute in XHTML documents.
<p>This chapter covers marking up text in <acronym
title="Extensible Hypertext Markup
Language">XHTML</acronym>.</p>
This will produce following result:
This chapter covers marking up text in XHTML.
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At present, the major browsers do not change the appearance
of the content of the <acronym> element.
6.5 Special Terms - The <dfn> Element :
The <dfn> element allows you to specify that you are introducing a
special term. Its use is similar to the words that are in italics in the midst of
paragraphs in this book when new key concepts are introduced.
Typically, you would use the <dfn> element the first time you introduce
a key term and only in that instance. Most recent browsers render the content of
a <dfn> element in an italic font.
<p>This tutorial teaches you how mark up your
documents for the web using <dfn>XHTML</dfn>.</p>
This will produce following result:
This tutorial teaches you how mark up your documents for the web using
XHTML.
6.6 Quoting Text - The <blockquote> Element :
When you want to quote a passage from another source, you should use
the <blockquote> element.
Text inside a <blockquote> element is usually indented from the left
and right edges of the surrounding text, and sometimes uses an italicized font.
<p>The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C
Web site:</p> <blockquote> XHTML 1.0 is the W3C's first
Recommendation for XHTML, following on from earlier work on
HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0. </blockquote>
This will produce following result:
The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C Web site:
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XHTML 1.0 is the W3C's first Recommendation for XHTML,
following on from earlier work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2
and HTML 2.0.
You can use the cite attribute on the <blockquote> element
to indicate the source of the quote.
<p>The following description of XHTML is taken
from theW3C Web site:</p> <blockquote
cite="http://www.w3.org/markup/"> XHTML 1.0 is the
W3C's first Recommendation for XHTML, following on
from earlier work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2
and HTML 2.0. </blockquote>
6.7 Short Quotations - The <q> Element :
The <q> element is intended to be used when you want to add a quote
within a sentence rather than as an indented block on its own.
<p>Amit is in Spain, <q>He is their at my home. I think
I am wrong</q>.</p>
This will produce following result:
Amit is in Spain, He is their at my home. I think I am wrong.
The <q> element can also carry the cite attribute. The value should be a
URL pointing to the source of the quote.
6.8 Citations - The <cite> Element :
If you are quoting a text, you can indicate the source placing it between
an opening <cite> tag and closing </cite> tag
As you would expect in a print publication, the content of the <cite>
element is rendered in italicized text by default.
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<p>This HTML Tutorial is derived from <cite>World
Wide Web Standard for HTML</cite>.</p>
This will produce following result:
This HTML Tutorial is derived from World Wide Web Standard for
HTML.
6.9 Computer Code - The <code> Element :
Any code to appear on a Web page should be placed inside a <code>
element. Usually the content of the <code> element is presented in a
monospaced font, just like the code in most programming books.
<h1> <code>This is inside code element</code></h1>
This will produce following result:
This is inside code element
6.10 Keyboard Text - The <kbd> Element :
When you are talking about computers, if you want to tell a reader to
enter some text, you can use the <kbd> element to indicate what should be
typed in, as in this example.
The content of a <kbd> element is usually represented in a monospaced
font rather like the content of the <code> element.
<h1> <kbd>This is inside kbd element</kbd></h1>
This will produce following result:
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This is inside kbd element
6.11 Programming Variables - The <var> Element :
This element is usually used in conjunction with the <pre> and <code>
elements to indicate that the content of that element is a variable that can be
supplied by a user.
<p><code>document.write("<var>username</var>")</code></p>
This will produce following result:
document.write("user-name")
6.12 Program Output - The <samp> Element :
The <samp> element indicates sample output from a program, script, or
the like. Again, it is mainly used when documenting programming concepts.
For example:
<p>Result produced by the program is <samp>Hello
World</samp></p>
This will produce following result:
Result produced by the program is Hello World
6.13 Addresses - The <address> Element :
The <address> element is used to contain any address. For example:
<address>304, Menna Colony, Hyderabad - INDIA, 500032</address>
This will produce following result:
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304, Menna Colony, Hyderabad - INDIA, 500032
6.14 Block and Inline Elements:
We can categories all the elements into two sections:
6.14.1 Block-level elements
Block-level elements appear on the screen as if they have a carriage
return or line break before and after them. For example the <p>, <h1>,
<h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>, <ul>, <ol>, <dl>, <pre>, <hr />,
<blockquote>, and <address> elements are all block level elements.
They all start on their own new line, and anything that follows them
appears on its own new line.
6.14.2 Inline elements
Inline elements, on the other hand, can appear within sentences and do
not have to appear on a new line of their own. The <b>, <i>, <u>,
<em>, <strong>, <sup>, <sub>, <big>, <small>, <li>, <ins>, <del>,
<code>, <cite>, <dfn>, <kbd>, and <var> elements are all inline
elements.
7. HTML Comments
Comments are piece of code which is ignored by any web browser. It is
good practice to comment your code, especially in complex documents, to
indicate sections of a document, and any other notes to anyone looking at the
code. Comments help you and others understand your code.
HTML Comment lines are indicated by the special beginning tag <!-and ending tag --> placed at the beginning and end of EVERY line to be treated
as a comment.
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Comments do not nest, and the double-dash sequence "--" may not
appear inside a comment except as part of the closing --> tag. You must also
make sure that there are no spaces in the start-of-comment string.
For example: Given line is a valid comment in HTML
<!-- This is commented out -->
But following line is not a valid comment and will be displayed by the
borwser. This is because there is a space between the left angle bracket and the
exclamation mark.
< !-- This is commented out -->
Be careful if you use comments to "comment out" HTML that would
otherwise be shown to the user, since some older browsers will still pay
attention to angle brackets inside the comment and close the comment
prematurely -- so that some of the text that was supposed to be inside the
comment mistakenly appears as part of the document.
7.1 Multiline Comments:
You have seen how to comment a single line in HTML. You can
comment multiple lines by the special beginning tag <!-- and ending tag -->
placed before the first line and end of the lastline to be treated as a comment.
For example:
<!-This is a multiline comment <br />
and can span through as many as lines you like.
-->
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7.2 Conditional Comments :
Conditional comments only work in Explorer on Windows, and are thus
excellently suited to give special instructions meant only for Explorer on
Windows. They are supported from Explorer 5 onwards, and it is even possible
to distinguish between 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0.
Conditional comments work as follows:
<!--[if IE 6]>
Special instructions for IE 6 here
<![endif]-->
* Their basic structure is the same as an HTML comment (<!-- -->).
Therefore all other browsers will see them as normal comments and will
ignore them entirely.
* Explorer Windows, though, has been programmed to recognize the
special <!--[if IE]> syntax, resolves the if and parses the content of the
conditional comment as if it were normal page content.
* Since conditional comments use the HTML comment structure, they can
only be included in HTML files, and not in CSS files.
7.3 Using Comment tag
There are few browsers who supports <comment> tag to comment a
part of code.
<p>This is <comment>not</comment> Internet Explorer.</p>
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7.4 Commenting Scripts and Style Sheets:
If you are using Java Script or VB Script in your HTML code then it is
recommended to put that script code inside proper HTML Comments to make
old browser works properly.
For example:
<script>
<!-document.write("Hello World!")
//-->
</script>
Similarly if you are using Casecading Style Sheet in your HTML code
then it is recommended to put that style sheet code inside proper HTML
Comments to make old browser works properly.
For example:
<style>
<!-img{
border:0px;
}
//-->
</style>
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8. HTML Fonts
Font face and color depends entirely on the computer and browser that
is being used to view your page. But the <font> tag is used to add style, size,
and color to the text on your site. You can use a <basefont> tag to set all of
your text to the same size, face, and color.
The font tag is having three attributes called size, color, and face to
customize your fonts.
To change any of the font attributes at any time within your page,
simply use the <font> tag. The text that follows will remain changed until you
close with the </font> tag. You can change any or all of the font attributes at the
one time, by including all the required changes within the one <font> tag.
NOTE: The font and basefont tags are deprecated and it is
supposed to be removed in a future version of HTML. So it should not be
used. Its is suggested to use css styles to manipulate your font.
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8.1 Font Size:
You can set the size of your font with size attribute. The range of
accepted values is from 1(smallest) to 7(largest). The default size of a font is 3.
Example:
<font size="1">Font size="1"</font>
<font size="2">Font size="2"</font>
<font size="3">Font size="3"</font>
<font size="4">Font size="4"</font>
<font size="5">Font size="5"</font>
<font size="6">Font size="6"</font>
<font size="7">Font size="7"</font>
This will produce following result:
Font size="1"
Font size="2"
Font size="3"
Font size="4"
Font size="5"
Font size="6"
Font size="7"
SPECIFY THE RELATIVE FONT SIZE. <font size="+n"> or
<font size="-n">:You can specify how many sizes larger or how many sizes
smaller than the preset font size should be.
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Example:
<font size="-1">Font size="-1"</font>
<font size="+1">Font size="+1"</font>
<font size="+2">Font size="+2"</font>
<font size="+3">Font size="+3"</font>
<font size="+4">Font size="+4"</font>
This will produce following result:
Font size="-1"
Font size="+1"
Font size="+2"
Font size="+3"
Font
size="+4"
8.2 Font Face:
You can set any font you like using face attribute but be aware that if
the user viewing the page doesn't have the font installed, they will not be able
to see it. Instead they will default to Times New Roman of your font with size
attribute. See below few examples on using different font face
Example:
<font
face="Times
Roman</font>
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Roman"
size="5">Times
New
HTML
<font face="Verdana" size="5">Verdana</font>
<font face="Comic sans MS" size="5">Comic Sans MS</font>
<font face="WildWest" size="5">WildWest</font>
<font face="Bedrock" size="5">Bedrock</font>
This will produce following result:
Times New Roman
Verdana
Comic Sans MS
WildWest
Bedrock
8.3 Specify alternate font faces:
A visitor will only be able to see your font if they have that font
installed on their computer. So, it is possible to specify two or more font face
alternatives by listing the font face names, separated by a comma.
Example:
<font face="arial,helvetica">
<font face="Lucida Calligraphy,Comic Sans MS,Lucida Console>
When your page is loaded, their browser will display the first font face
that it has available. If none of your selections are installed....then it will
display the default font face Times New Roman.
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8.4 Font Color:
You can set any font color you like using color attribute. You can
specify the color that you want by either the color name or hexadecimal code
for that color. Check a complete list of HTML Color Name with Codes.
Example:
<font color="#FF00FF">This text is hexcolor #FF00FF</font>
<font color="red">This text is red</font>
This will produce following result:
This text is hexcolor #FF00FF
This text is red
8.5 The <basefont> Element:
The <basefont> element is supposed to set a default font size, color, and
typeface for any parts of the document that are not otherwise contained within a
<font> element. You can then use the <font> elements to override the
<basefont> settings.
The attributes that the <basefont> element takes are exactly the same as
for the <font> element. You can also set the size of fonts relative to the size of
the <basefont> by giving them a value of +1 for a size larger or -2 for two sizes
smaller
NOTE: This element is deprecated in HTML 4 and will be removed
from HTML, the preferred option is to use CSS styles. Your browser may not
have support for this tag.
Example:
<basefont face="arial, verdana, sans-serif" size="2" color="#ff0000">
<p>This is the page's default font.</p>
<h2>Example of the <basefont> Element</h2>
<p><font size="+2" color="darkgray">Here is some darkgray text
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two sizes larger</font></p>
<p><font face="courier" size="-1" color="#000000">Here is a courier
font, a size smaller, in black</font></p>
This will produce following result:
This is the page's default font.
Example of the <basefont> Element
Here is some darkgray text
two sizes larger
Hereisacourier
font,asizesmaller,inblack
As you can see, the default font now takes on the properties specified in
the <basefont> element. It is red, size 2, and uses the Arial typeface.
The paragraph after the <h2> element uses a font size two sizes larger
than the default size and is gray text, whereas the following paragraph uses a
font one size smaller than the default font. You can also see that the color of
this font is black (overriding the default).
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9. HTML Marquees
A HTML marquee is a scrolling piece of text displayed either
horizontally across or vertically down your web site page depending on the
settings. This is created by using HTML tag <marquees>.
NOTE: The HTML <marquee> is an MSIE extension, but is now
supported by NS 7 also. So please check if your browser supports this tag or
not.
Syntax:
A simple syntax to use marquee is as follows:
<marquee attribute_name="attribute_value"....more attributes>
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One or more lines or text message or image
</marquee>
9.1 Attrubutes:
A HTML marquee can have following attributes:
1) width: how wide the marquee is. This will have a value like 10
or 20%etc.
2) height: how tall the marquee is. This will have a value like 10 or
20% etc.
3) direction: which direction the marquee should scroll. This will
have value either up, down, left or right.
4) behavior: what type of scrolling. This will have value scroll, slid
and alternate.
5) scrolldelay: how long to delay between each jump. This will
have a value like 10 etc.
6) scrollamount: how far to jump. This will have a value like 10
etc.
7) loop: how many times to loop. The default value is INFINITE,
which means that the marquee loops endlessly.
8) bgcolor: background color. This will have any color name or
color hex value.
9) hspace: horizontal space around the marquee. This will have a
value like 10 or 20%etc.
10) vspace: vertical space around the marquee. This will have a
value like 10 or 20%etc.
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Examples:
Here are few examples to demonstrate the usage of marquee tag.
<marquee>This is basic example of marquee</marquee>
<marquee width="50%">This example will take only 50%
width</marquee>
<marquee direction="right">This text will scroll from left to
right</marquee>
<marquee direction="up">This text will scroll from bottom to
up</marquee>
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10. HTML Images
Images are very important to beautify as well as to depicts many
concepts on your web page. Its is true that one single image is worth than
thuasands of words. So as a Web Developer you should have clear
understanding on how to use images in your web pages.
10.1 Insert Image - The <img> Element:
You will insert any image in your web page by using <img> tag.
Following is the simple syntax to use this tag.
<img
src="image
URL"
attr_name="attr_value"...more
attributes />
10.2 Image Attributes:
Following are most frequently used attributes for <img> tag.
1) width: sets width of the image. This will have a value like 10 or 20%etc.
2) height: sets height of the image. This will have a value like 10 or 20%
etc.
3) border: sets a border around the image. This will have a value like 1 or
2 etc.
4) src: specifies URL of the image file.
5) alt: this is an alternate text which will be displayed if image is missing.
6) align: this sets horizontal alignment of the image and takes value either
left, right or center.
7) valign: this sets vertical alignment of the image and takes value either
top, bottom or center.
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8) hspace: horizontal space around the image. This will have a value like
10 or 20%etc.
9) vspace: vertical space around the image. This will have a value like 10
or 20%etc.
10) name: name of the image with in the document.
11) id: id of the image with in the document.
12) style: this will be used if you are using CSS.
13) title: specifies a text title. The browser, perhaps flashing the title when
the mouse passes over the link.
14) ismap and usemap: These attributes for the <img> tag tell the browser
that the image is a special mouse-selectable visual map of one or more
hyperlinks, commonly known as an image map. We will see how to use
these attributes in Image Links chapter
A Simple Example:
<img src=" d:/nature/p116.jpeg " alt="Nature" />
Image Attributes - width, height, title, border and align:
Now let us try to set some more attributes:
<img
src="d:/nature/p116.jpeg
"
alt="Nature"
width="100"
height="100" border="2" align="right" title="HTML Tutorial" />
This will produce following result:
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Remember that all the images will have a border by default. In our
examples its not showing because our global style sheet has set img
{border:0px;} which means that no border will be displayed till it is mentioned
explicitly.
You can remove an image border by setting border="0" or through
CSS by setting img {border:0px;}.
Wrapping text around images:
Example 1:
<p>This is the first paragraph that appears above the paragraph with
the
image!</p>
<p><img src=" d:/nature/p116.jpeg " width="75" height="75" alt="
Nature" align="right">
The image will appear along the right hand side of the paragraph. As
you can see this is very nice for adding a little eye candy that relates to
the
specified
paragraph.</p>
<p>The left and right image-alignment values tell the browser to place
an image against the left or right margin, respectively, of the current
text flow. The browser then renders subsequent document content in
the remaining portion of the flow adjacent to the image. The net result
is that the document content following the image gets wrapped around
the image. </p>
This will produce following result:
This is the first paragraph that appears above the paragraph with the
image!
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The image will appear along the right hand side of the paragraph. As
you can see this is very nice for adding a little eye candy that relates to
the specified paragraph.
The left and right image-alignment values tell the browser to place an
image against the left or right margin, respectively, of the current text
flow. The browser then renders subsequent document content in the
remaining portion of the flow adjacent to the image. The net result is
that the document content following the image gets wrapped around
the image.
Example 2:
You can use vspace or hspace attributes if you want to keep some
distance between text and image. Let us revise above example:
<p>This is the first paragraph that appears above the paragraph with
the
image!</p>
<p><img src=" d:/nature/p116.jpeg " vspace="10" hspace="15"
width="75"
height="75"alt="nature"
align="right">
The image will appear along the right hand side of the paragraph. As
you can see this is very nice for adding a little eye candy that relates
to
the
specified
paragraph.</p>
<p>The left and right image-alignment values tell the browser to
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place an image against the left or right margin, respectively, of the
current text flow. The browser then renders subsequent document
content in the remaining portion of the flow adjacent to the image.
The net result is that the document content following the image gets
wrapped around the image. </p>
This will produce following result:
This is the first paragraph that appears above the paragraph with the
image!
The image will appear along the right hand side of the paragraph. As
you can see this is very nice for adding a little eye candy that relates to
the specified paragraph.The left and right image-alignment values tell
the browser to place an image against the left or right margin,
respectively, of the current text flow. The browser then renders
subsequent document content in the remaining portion of the flow
adjacent to the image. The net result is that the document content
following the image gets wrapped around the image.
10.3 Which image format is suitable for you ?
The images in Graphics Interchange Format - GIF format are best used
for banners, clip art, and buttons. The main reason for this is that gifs can have
a transparent background which is priceless when it comes to web design. On
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the down side, gifs are usually larger files, not as compressed as a jpeg, which
calls for slow load times and large transfer rates. Gifs are also limited to the
256 color scheme.
Ths images in Joint Photographic Experts Group - JPEG format have
an unlimited color wheel, and have a high compression rate downsizing your
load times and saving hard drive space. JPEGs don't allow for transparent
backgrounds, but their size/quality ratio is outstanding. Its best to use JPEG
format for photo galleries, or artwork to allow the viewer to catch that extra bit
of detail. Avoid Jpegs for graphical design, stick to using them for thumbnails
and backgrounds.
The images in Portable Network Graphics - PNG format is an
extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of
raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also
replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor
images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range
from 1 to 16 bits. PNG also compresses better than GIF in almost every case
(5% to 25% in typical cases).
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11. HTML Text Links
Web pages can contain links that take you directly to other pages and
even specific parts of a given page. These links are known as hyperlinks.
Hyperlinks allow visitors to navigate between Web sites by clicking on
words, phrases, and images. Thus you can create hyperlinks using text or
images available on your any web page.
11.1 Linking Documents - The <a> Element:
A link is specified using the <a> element. This element is called anchor
tag as well. Anything between the opening <a> tag and the closing </a> tag
becomes part of the link and a user can click that part to reach to the linked
document.
Following is the simple syntax to use this tag.
<a
href="Document
URL"
attr_name="attr_value"...more
attributes />
11.2 Anchor Attributes:
Following are most frequently used attributes for <a> tag.
1) href: specifies the URL of the target of a hyperlink. Its value is
any valid document URL, absolute or relative, including a
fragment identifier or a JavaScript code fragment.
2)
target: specify where to display the contents of a selected
hyperlink. If set to "_blank" then a new window will be opened
to display the loaded page, if set to "_top" or "_parent" then
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same window will be used to display the loaded document, if set
to "_self" then loads the new page in current window. By default
its "_self".
3) name & id: attributes places a label within a document. When
that label is used in a link to that document, it is the equivalent
of telling the browser to goto that label.
4)
event: attributes like onClick, onMouseOver etc. are used to
trigger any Javascript ot VBscript code.
5) title: attribute lets you specify a title for the document to which
you are linking. The value of the attribute is any string, enclosed
in quotation marks. The browser might use it when displaying
the link, perhaps flashing the title when the mouse passes over
the link.
6) accesskey: attribute attribute provides a keyboard shortcut that
can be used to activate a link. For example, you could make the
T key an access key so that when the user presses either the Alt
or Ctrl key on his keyboard (depending on his operating system)
along with the T key, the link gets activated.
A Simple Example:
<a
href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/"
target="_blank"
Home</a>
<a
target="_self"
href="http://www.amrood.com/"
Home</a>
>TP
>AMROOD
|
<a href="http://www.change-images.com/" target="_top" >Change
Images Home</a>
This will produce following result, Click and come back to proceed
with rest of the tutorial:
Tutorials Point | AMROOD | Change Images
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11.3 Base Path for Links:
It is not required to give a complete URL for every link. You can get rid
of it if you will use <base> tag in your header. This tag is used to give a base
path for all the links. So your browser will concatenate given relative path to
this base path and will make a complete URL.
For example we have used following base tag in all the pages at
tutorialspoint.com:
<head>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/">
</head>
So now if you will use <a href="/html/index.htm" then it will be
considered as <a href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/index.htm".
11.4 Linking to a Page Section:
You can create a link to a particular section of a page by using name
attribute. Here we will create three links with-in this page itself.
First create a link to reach to the top of this page. Here is the code we
have used for the title heading HTML Text Links
<h1>HTML Text Links <a name="top"></a></h1>
Now you have a place where you can reach. To reach to this place use
the following code with-in this document anywhere:
<a href="/html/html_text_links.htm#top">Go to the Top</a>
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This will produce following link and you try using this link to reach to the top
of this page:
Go to the Top
NOTE: Here we are using relative path. You can give complete URL
and
then
and
then
link
name
eg.
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/html_text_links.htm#top
You can use this type of URL in any other page to reach directly to a
particular section.
11.5 Setting Link Colors:
You can set colors of your links, active links and visited links using link,
alink and vlink attributes of <body> tag. But it is recommended to use CSS to
set colors of links, visited links and active links.
Following is the example we have used for our web side tutorialspoint.com
a:link
{color:#900B09; background-color:transparent}
a:visited {color:#900B09; background-color:transparent}
a:active {color:#FF0000; background-color:transparent}
a:hover {color:#FF0000; background-color:transparent}
You can refer to Style Sheet Tutorial for a complete understanding on CSS.
Otherwise you can use <body> tag to set link colors. Here is the syntax.
<body alink="#FF0000" link="#900B09" vlink="#900B09">
.......
</body>
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11.6 Create Download Links:
You can create text link to make your PDF, or DOC or ZIP files
downloadable. This is very simple, you just need to give complete URL of the
downloadable file as follows:
<a href="http://www.example.com/file.pdf">Download File</a>
This will produce following link and will be used to download a file.
Download File
You can not make an image download able until you follow the following
procedure.
How To Raise a "File Download" Dialog Box ?
Sometime it is desired that you want to give option where a use will
click a link and it will pop up a "File Download" box to the user in stead of
displaying actual content. This is very easy and will be achived through HTTP
header.
This HTTP header will be different from the header mentioned in
previous section.
For example,if you want make a FileName file downloadable from a
given link then its syntax will be as follows.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# HTTP Header
print
"Content-Type:application/octet-stream;
name=\"FileName\"\r\n";
print
"Content-Disposition:
filename=\"FileName\"\r\n\n";
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# Actual File Content will go hear.
open( FILE, "<FileName" );
while(read(FILE, $buffer, 100) )
{
print("$buffer");
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12. HTML Image Links
12.1 Mouse-Sensitive Images:
The HTML and XHTML standards provide a feature that lets you
embed many different links inside the same image. Clicking different areas of
the image causes the browser to link to different target documents. Such
mouse-sensitive images known as image maps.
There are two ways to create image maps:
* A server-side image maps: is enabled by the ismap attribute for the
<img> tag and requires access to a server and related image-map
processing applications
* A client-side image maps: is created with the usemap attribute for the
<img> tag, along with corresponding <map> and <area> tags.
Server-Side Image Maps:
You add an image to an anchor simply by placing an <img> tag within
the body of the <a> tag. Make that embedded image into a mouse-sensitive one
by adding the ismap attribute to the <img> tag. This special <img> attribute
tells the browser that the image is a special map containing more than one link.
When the user clicks some place within the image, the browser passes
the coordinates of the mouse pointer along with the URL specified in the <a>
tag to the document server. The server uses the mouse-pointer coordinates to
determine which document to deliver back to the browser.
When ismap is used, the href attribute of the containing <a> tag must
contain the URL of a server application like amap file or cgi script etc. to
process the incoming request based on the passed coordinates.
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The coordinates of the mouse position are screen pixels counted from
the upper-left corner of the image, beginning with (0,0). The coordinates,
preceded by a question mark, are added to the end of the URL.
For example, if a user clicks 50 pixels over and 30 pixels down from the
upper-left corner of the image displayed from the following link:
<a href="/cgi-bin/logo.map" target="_self" >
<img ismap src="/images/html.gif"
alt="HTML" border="0"/>
</a>
Then the browser sends the following search parameters to the HTTP
server which can be processed by cgi script or map file and you can link
whatever you like to these coordinates:
/cgi-bin/logo.map?50,30
NOTE: Converting the coordinates into a specific document is handled
by the server side application, either cgi programme or special map files
provided by seb server. For more detail Check Using HTML ismap.
12.2 Client-Side Image Maps:
Client side image maps are enabled by the usemap attribute for the
<img /> tag and defined by special <map> and <area> extension tags.
The image that is going to form the map is inserted into the page using
the <img /> element as normal, except it carries an extra attribute called
usemap. The value of the usemap attribute is the value of the name attribute on
the <map> element, which you are about to meet, preceded by a pound or hash
sign.
The <map> element actually creates the map for the image and usually
follows directly after the <img /> element. It acts as a container for the <area />
elements that actually define the clickable hotspots. The <map> element carries
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only one attribute, the name attribute, which is the name that identifies the map.
This is how the <img /> element knows which <map> element to use.
The <area> element specifies the shape and the coordinates that define
the boundaries of each clickable hotspot. Here's an example from the image
map:
<img
src=/images/html.gif
alt="HTML
Map"
border="0"
usemap="#html"/>
<!-- Create Mappings -->
<map name="html">
<area shape="circle"
coords="154,150,59" href="link1.htm" alt="link 1"
target="_self" />
<area shape="poly"
coords="272,79,351,79,351,15,486,15,486,218,272,218,
292,166,292,136,270,76" alt="link 2"
href="link2.htm" target="_self" />
<area shape="rect"
coords="325,224,488,286" alt="link 3"
href="link3.htm" target="_self" />
</map>
The actual value of coords is totally dependent on the shape in question.
Here is a summary, to be followed by detailed examples:
rect = x1 , y1 , x2 , y2
x1 and y1 are the coordinates of the upper left corner of the
rectangle; x2 and y2 are the coordinates of the lower right corner.
Therefore, a rectangle which goes from 10,5 to 20,25 would have the
attribute coords="10,5,20,25". A rectangle which defines the upper-left
quarter of an image might use coords="0,0,50%,50%".
circle = xc , yc , radius
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xc and yc are the coordinates of the center of the circle, and
radius is the circle's radius. A circle centered at 200,50 with a radius of
25 would have the attribute coords="200,50,25"; one centered at the
image's center and having a diameter of half the image would be
defined by coords="50%,50%,25%".
poly = x1 , y1 , x2 , y2 , x3 , y3 , ... xn , yn
The various x-y pairs define vertices (points) of the polygon,
with a "line" being drawn from one point to the next point. A diamondshaped polygon with its top point at 20,20 and 40 pixels across at its
widest
points
would
have
the
attribute
coords="20,20,40,40,20,60,0,40". A "line" is always drawn from the
coordinates of the last point to the coordinates of the first point in order
to close the polygon.
All coordinates are relative to the upper-left corner of the image
(0,0). Each shape has a related URL.You can use any image software to
know the coordinates of different positions.
13.
HTML Email Links
This is very easy to put an HTML email link on your page. But while
doing so, you need to put your email address on your web page which can
cause a spamming problem for your email account. There are many guys over
the internet who can run programs to harvest these types of emails for
spamming. So if you are going to put your email link on a public website then
you have be prepared for anti-spamming as well.
You can have another option to facilitate people to send you emails.
This option is to use HTML forms to take user data and then use CGI script to
send an email.
13.1 HTML Email Tag:
HTML <a> tag provides you facility to specifiy an email address to
send an email. While using <a> tag as an email tag then you will use
mailto:email address along with href attribute. Following is the syntax of
using mailto instead of using http.
<a href= "mailto:[email protected]">Send Email</a>
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This code will generate following link:
Send Email
Now if a user will click this link then it will lanuch one Email Client
( like Lotus Notes, Outlook Express etc. ) installed on your user's computer.
This is another risk to use this procedure because if users do not have
email client installed on their computer then it would not be possible to send
you email.
Default Email Subject and Body:
You can specify a default email subject and email body alongwith your
email address. Following is the example to use default subject and body.
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?
subject=Feedback&body=Message">
Send Feedback
</a>
This code will generate following link:
Send Feedback
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14.
HTML Tables
Tables are very useful to arrange in HTML and they are used very
frequently by almost all web developers. Tables are just like spreadsheets and
they are made up of rows and columns.
You will create a table in HTML/XHTML by using <table> tag. Inside
<table> element the table is written out row by row. A row is contained inside a
<tr> tag . which stands for table row. And each cell is then written inside the
row element using a <td> tag . which stands for table data.
Example:
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
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</tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
Row 1, Column 1
Row 1, Column 2
Row 2, Column 1
Row 2, Column 2
NOTE: In the above example border is an attribute of <table> and it
will put border across all the cells. If you do not need a border then you cal use
border="0". The border attribute and other attributes also mentione din this
session are deprecated and they have been replaced by CSS. So it is
recommended to use CSS instead of using any attribute directly.
14.1 Table Heading - The <th> Element:
Table heading can be defined using <th> element. This tag will be put to
replace <td> tag which is used to represent actual data. Normally you will put
your top row as table heading as shown below, otherwise you can use <th>
element at any place:
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
This will produce following result. You can see its making heading as a bold
one:
Name
Salary
Ramesh Raman
5000
Shabbir Hussein
7000
NOTE: Each cell must, however, have either a <td> or a <th> element
in order for the table to display correctly even if that element is empty.
14.2 Table Cellpadding and Cellspacing:
There are two attribiutes called cellpadding and cellspacing which you
will use to adjust the white space in your table cell. Cellspacing defines the
width of the border, while cellpadding represents the distance between cell
borders and the content within. Following is the example:
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
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<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
Name
Salary
Ramesh Raman
5000
Shabbir Hussein
7000
You will use colspan attribute if you want to merge two or more
columns into a single column. Similar way you will use rowspan if you want to
merge two or more rows. Following is the example:
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2">Row 1 Cell 1</td>
<td>Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Cell 2</td><td>Row 2 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3">Row 3 Cell 1</td></tr>
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</table>
This will produce following result:
Column 1
Row 1 Cell 1
Column 2
Column 3
Row 1 Cell 2
Row 1 Cell 3
Row 2 Cell 2
Row 2 Cell 3
Row 3 Cell 1
14.3 Tables Backgrounds
You can set table background using of the following two ways:
Using bgcolor attribute - You can set background color for whole table or
just for one cell.
Using background attribute - You can set background image for whole table
or just for one cell.
NOTE:You can set border color also using bordercolor attribute.
Here is an example of using bgcolor attribute:
<table border="5" bordercolor="green" bgcolor="gray">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2">Row 1 Cell 1</td>
<td bgcolor="red">Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Cell 2</td><td>Row 2 Cell 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="3">Row 3 Cell 1</td></tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
Column 1
Row 1 Cell 1
Column 2
Column 3
Row 1 Cell 2
Row 1 Cell 3
Row 2 Cell 2
Row 2 Cell 3
Row 3 Cell 1
Here is an example of using background attribute:
<table border="1" background="/images/home.gif">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2">Row 1 Cell 1</td>
<td bgcolor="red">Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Cell 2</td><td>Row 2 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3" background="/images/pattern1.gif">
Row 3 Cell 1
</td></tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
Column 1
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Row 1 Cell 1
Row 1 Cell 2
Row 1 Cell 3
Row 2 Cell 2
Row 2 Cell 3
Row 3 Cell 1
14.4 Table height and width:
You can set a table width and height using width and height attrubutes.
You can specify table width or height in terms of integer value or in terms of
percentage of available screen area. Following is the example:
<table border="1" width="400" height="150">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
Row 1, Column 1
Row 1, Column 2
Row 2, Column 1
Row 2, Column 2
14.5 Using Table Caption:
The caption tags will serve as a title or explanation and show up at the
top of the table. This tag is depracated in newer version of HTML/XHTML.
<table border="1">
<caption>This is the caption</caption>
<tr>
<td>row 1, column 1</td><td>row 1, columnn 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
This is the caption
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row 1, column 1
row 1, columnn 2
14.6 Using a Header, Body, and Footer:
Tables can be divided into three portions: a header, a body, and a foot.
The head and foot are rather similar to headers and footers in a word-processed
document that remain the same for every page, while the body is the main
content of the table.
The three elements for separating the head, body, and foot of a table are:
<thead> - to create a separate table header.
<tbody> - to indicate the main body of the table.
<tfoot> - to create a separate table footer.
A table may contain several <tbody> elements to indicate different
pages or groups of data. But it is notable that <thead> and <tfoot> tags should
appear before <tbody>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">This is the head of the table</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">This is the foot of the table</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 2</td>
<td>Cell 3</td>
<td>Cell 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
...more rows here containing four cells...
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
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<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 2</td>
<td>Cell 3</td>
<td>Cell 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
...more rows here containing four cells...
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
This will produce following result:
This is the head of the table
This is the foot of the table
Cell 1
Cell 2
Cell 3
Cell 4
...more rows here containing four cells...
Cell 1
Cell 2
Cell 3
Cell 4
...more rows here containing four cells...
14.7 Nested Tables:
You can use one table inside another table. Not only tables you can use
almost all the tags inside table data tag <td>.
Following is the example of using another table and other tags inside a
table cell.
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<ul>
<li>This is another cell</li>
<li>Using list inside this cell</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
Name
Salary
Ramesh Raman
5000
Shabbir Hussein
7000
Row 2, Column 1
15.
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This is another cell
Using list inside this cell
Row 2, Column 2
HTML Frames
HTML
Frames divide a browser window into several pieces or panes, each
pane containing a separate XHTML/HTML document. One of the key
advantages that frames offer is that you can then load and reload single panes
without having to reload the entire contents of the browser window. A
collection of frames in the browser window is known as a frameset.
The window is divided up into frames in a similar pattern to the way
tables are organized: into rows and columns. The simplest of framesets might
just divide the screen into two rows, while a complex frameset could use
several rows and columns.
There are few drawbacks also you should be aware of with frames are
as follows:
Some browsers do not print well from framesets.
Some smaller devices cannot cope with frames, often because their
screen is not big enough to be divided up.
Some time your page will be displayed differently on different
computers due to different screen resolution.
The browser's back button might not work as the user hopes.
There are still few browsers who do not support farme technology.
To create a frameset document, first you need the <frameset> element,
which is used instead of the <body> element. The frameset defines the rows
and columns your page is divided into, which in turn specify where each
individual frame will go. Each frame is then represented by a <frame> element.
You also need to learn the <noframes> element, which provides a
message for users whose browsers do not support frames.
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15.1 Creating Frames - The <frameset> Element:
The <frameset> tag replaces the <body> element in frameset
documents.
The <frameset> tag defines how to divide the window into frames.
Each frameset defines a set of rows or columns. If you define
frames by using rows then horizontal frames are created. If you
define frames by using columns then vertical farmes are created.
The values of the rows/columns indicate the amount of screen area
each row/column will occupy.
Each farme is indicated by <frame> tag and it defines what HTML
document to put into the frame.
Example:
Following is the example to create three horizontal frames:
<html>
<head>
<title>Frames example</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="10%,80%,10%">
<frame src="/html/top_frame.htm" />
<frame src="/html/main_frame.htm" />
<frame src="/html/bottom_frame.htm" />
<noframes>
<body>
Your browser does not support frames.
</body>
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</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Now create three HTML files called top_frame.htm, main_frame.htm
and bottom_frame.htm to be loaded into three frames with some content.
15.2 The <frameset> Element Attributes:
Following are important attributes of <frameset> and should be known
to you to use frameset.
15.2.1 cols: specifies how many columns are contained in the frameset and
the size of each column. You can specify the width of each column in one
of four ways:
* Absolute values in pixels. For example to create three vertical
frames, use cols="100, 500,100".
* A percentage of the browser window. For example to create three
vertical frames, use cols="10%, 80%,10%".
* Using a wildcard symbol. For example to create three vertical
frames, use cols="10%, *,10%". In this case wildcard takes
remainder of the window.
* As relative widths of the browser window. For example to create
three vertical frames, use cols="3*,2*,1*". This is an alternative
to percentages. You can use relative widths of the browser
window. Here the window is divided into sixths: the first column
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takes up half of the window, the second takes one third, and the
third takes one sixth.
15.2.2 rows: attribute works just like the cols attribute and can take the
same values, but it is used to specify the rows in the frameset. For example
to create two horizontal frames, use rows="10%, 90%". You can specify the
height of each row in the same way as explained above for columns.
15.2.3 border: attribute specifies the width of the border of each frame in
pixels. For example border="5". A value of zero specifies that no border
should be there.
15.2.4 frameborder: specifies whether a three-dimensional border should
be displayed between frames. This attrubute takes value either 1 (yes) or 0
(no). For example frameborder="0" specifies no border.
15.2.5 framespacing: specifies the amount of space between frames in a
frameset. This can take any integer value. For example framespacing="10"
means there should be 10 pixels spacing between each frames.
15.3 Loading Content - The <frame> Element:
The <frame> element indicates what goes in each frame of the frameset.
The <frame> element is always an empty element, and therefore should not
have any content, although each <frame> element should always carry one
attribute, src, to indicate the page that should represent that frame.
From the above example, lets take small snippet:
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<frame src="/html/top_frame.htm" />
<frame src="/html/main_frame.htm" />
<frame src="/html/bottom_frame.htm" />
15.4 The <frame> Element Attributes:
Following are important attributes of and should be known to you to use
frames.
15.4.1 src: indicates the file that should be used in the frame. Its value
can be any URL. For example, src="/html/top_frame.htm" will load an HTML
file avaible in html directory.
15.4.2 name: attribute allows you to give a name to a frame. It is used
to indicate which frame a document should be loaded into. This is especially
important when you want to create links in one frame that load pages into a
second frame, in which case the second frame needs a name to identify itself as
the target of the link.
15.4.3 frameborder: attribute specifies whether or not the borders of
that frame are shown; it overrides the value given in the frameborder attribute
on the <frameset> element if one is given, and the possible values are the same.
This can take values either 1 (yes) or 0 (no).
15.4.4marginwidth: allows you to specify the width of the space
between the left and right of the frame's borders and the frame's content. The
value is given in pixels. For example marginwidth="10".
15.4.5 marginheight: allows you to specify the height of the space
between the top and bottom of the frame's borders and its contents. The value is
given in pixels. For example marginheight="10".
15.4.6noresize: By default you can resize any frame by clicking and
dragging on the borders of a frame. The noresize attribute prevents a user from
being able to resize the frame. For example noresize="noresize".
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15.4.7scrolling: controls the appearance of the scrollbars that appear on
the frame. This takes values either "yes", "no" or "auto". For example
scrolling="no" means it should not have scroll bars.
15.4.8 longdesc: allows you to provide a link to another page
containing a long
description of the contents of the frame. For example
longdesc="framedescription.htm"
15.5 Browser Support - The <noframes> Element:
If a user is using any old browser or any browser which does not
support frames then <noframes> element should be displayed to the user.
In XHTML you must place a <body> element inside the <noframes>
element because the <frameset> element is supposed to replace the <body>
element, but if a browser does not understand the <frameset> element it should
understand what is inside the <body> element contained in the <noframes>
element.
You can put some nice message for your user having old browsers. For
example Sorry!! your browser does not support frames.
15.6 Frame's name and target attributes:
One of the most popular uses of frames is to place navigation bars in
one frame and then load the pages with the content into a separate frame.
As you have already seen, each <frame> element can carry the name
attribute to give each frame a name.This name is used in the links to indicate
which frame the new page should load into. Consider this very simple example,
create following content in index.htm file:
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<frameset cols="200, *">
<frame src="/html/menu.htm" name="menu_page" />
<frame src="/html/main.htm" name="main_page" />
</frameset>
There are two columns in this example. The first is 200 pixels wide and
will contain the navigation bar. The second column or frame will contain the
main part of the page. The links on the left side navigation bar will load pages
into the right side main page.
Keep some content in main.htm file and the links in the menu.htm file
look like this:
<a href="http://www.google.com" target="main_page">Google</a>
<br /><br />
<a
href="http://www.microsoft.com"
target="main_page">Microsoft</a>
<br /><br />
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/" target="main_page">BBC News</a>
The target attribute can also take the attribute values listed in the table that
follows.
Vlaue
Description
_self
Loads the page into the current frame.
_blank
Loads a page into a new browser window.opening a new
window.
_paren Loads the page into the parent window, which in the case of a
t
_top
single frameset is the main browser window.
Loads the page into the browser window, replacing any
current frames..
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15.7 Inline Frames - The <iframe> Element:
You can define an inline frame with the <iframe> tag. The <iframe> tag
is not used within a <frameset> tag. Instead, it appears anywhere in your
document. The <iframe> tag defines a rectangular region within the document
in which the browser displays a separate document, including scrollbars and
borders.
Use the src attribute with <iframe> to specify the URL of the document
that occupies the inline frame.
All of the other, optional attributes for the <iframe> tag, including
name, class, frameborder, id, longdesc, marginheight, marginwidth, name,
scrolling, style, and title behave exactly like the corresponding attributes for the
<frame> tag.
Following is the example to show how to use the <iframe>. This tag is
used along with <body> tag:
<body>
...other document content...
<iframe
src="/html/menu.htm"
width="75"
height="200"
align="right">
Your browser does not support inline frames. To view this
<a href="/html/menu.htm">document</a> correctly, you'll need
a copy of Internet Explorer or the latest Netscape Navigator.
</iframe>
...subsequent document content...
</body>
The align attribute lets you control where the frame gets placed in line
with the adjacent text or moved to the edge of the document, allowing text to
flow around the frame.
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For inline alignment, use top, middle, or bottom as the value of this
attribute. The frame is aligned with the top, middle, or bottom of the adjacent
text, respectively. To allow text to flow around the inline frame, use the left or
right values for this attribute. The frame is moved to the left or right edge of the
text flow, respectively, and the remaining content of the document is flowed
around the frame. A value of center places the inline frame in the middle of the
display, with text flowing above and below.
16.
HTML Lists Formatting
You can list out your items, subjects or menu in the form of a list.
HTML gives you three different types of lists.
* <ul> - An unordered list. This will list items using bullets
* <ol> - A ordered list. This will use different schemes of numbers to list
your items
* <dl> - A definition list. This is arrange your items in the same way as they
are arranged in a dictionary.
16.1 HTML Unordered Lists:
An unordered list is a collection of related items that have no special
order or sequence. The most common unordered list you will find on the Web is
a collection of hyperlinks to other documents.
This list is created by using <ul> tag. Each item in the list is marked
with a butllet. The bullet itself comes in three flavors: squares, discs, and
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circles. The default bullet displayed by most web browsers is the traditional full
disc.
One Movie list is given below:
<center>
<h2>Movie List</h2>
</center>
<ul>
<li>Ram Teri Ganga Meli</li>
<li>Mera Naam Jocker</li>
<li>Titanic</li>
<li>Ghost in the ship</li>
</ul>
This will produce following result:
Movie List
Ram Teri Ganga Meli
Mera Naam Jocker
Titanic
Ghost in the ship
You can use type attribute to specify the type of bullet you like. By
default its is a disc. Following are the possible way:
<ul type="square">
<ul type="disc">
<ul type="circle">
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<ul
type="square">
<ul type="disc">
<ul type="circle">
Hindi
Hindi
Hindi
English
English
English
Maths
Maths
Maths
Physics
Physics
Physics
16.2 HTML Ordered Lists:
The typical browser formats the contents of an ordered list just like an
unordered list, except that the items are numbered instead of bulleted. The
numbering starts at one and is incremented by one for each successive ordered
list element tagged with <li>
This list is created by using <ol> tag. Each item in the list is marked
with a number.
One Movie list is given below:
<center>
<h2>Movie List</h2>
</center>
<ol>
<li>Ram Teri Ganga Meli</li>
<li>Mera Naam Jocker</li>
<li>Titanic</li>
<li>Ghost in the ship</li>
</ol>
This will produce following result:
Movie List
1. Ram Teri Ganga Meli
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2. Mera Naam Jocker
3. Titanic
4. Ghost in the ship
You can use type attribute to specify the type of numbers you like. By
default its is a generic numbers. Following are the other possible way:
<ol type="I"> - Upper-Case Numerals.
<ol type="i"> - Lower-Case Numerals.
<ol type="a"> - Lower-Case Letters.
<ol type="A"> - Upper-Case Letters.
<ol type="I">
<ol type="i">
<ol type="a">
<ol
type="A">
A. Hindi
I.
Hindi
i.
Hindi
a. Hindi
B. Englis
II.
English
ii.
English
b. English
III.
Maths
iii.
Maths
c. Maths
C. Maths
IV.
Physics
iv.
Physics
d. Physics
D. Physic
s
You can use start attribute to specify the beginning of any index. By
default its is a first number or character. In the following example index starts
from 5:
<center>
<h2>Movie List</h2>
</center>
<ol start="5">
<li>Ram Teri Ganga Meli</li>
<li>Mera Naam Jocker</li>
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<li>Titanic</li>
<li>Ghost in the ship</li>
</ol>
This will produce following result:
Movie List
5. Ram Teri Ganga Meli
6. Mera Naam Jocker
7. Titanic
8. Ghost in the ship
16.3 HTML Definition Lists:
HTML and XHTML also support a list style entirely different from the
ordered and unordered lists we have discussed so far - definition lists . Like the
entries you find in a dictionary or encyclopedia, complete with text, pictures,
and other multimedia elements, the Definition List is the ideal way to present a
glossary, list of terms, or other name/value list.
Definition List makes use of following three tags.
<dl> - Defines the start of the list
<dt> - A term
<dd> - Term definition
</dl> - Defines the end of the list
Example:
<dl>
<dt><b>HTML</b></dt>
<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language</dd>
<dt><b>HTTP</b></dt>
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<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol</dd>
</dl>
This will produce following result:
HTML
This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP
This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
16.4 Appropriate List Usage:
Following are just a suggestion and there is no hard and fast rule to use
them:
Use unordered lists for:
Link collections
Short, nonsequenced groups of text
Emphasizing the high points of a presentation
Use ordered lists for:
Tables of contents
Sets of sequential sections of text
Assigning numbers to short phrases that can be referenced elsewhere
Use definition lists for:
Glossaries
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Custom bullets - make the item after the <dt> tag an icon-sized bullet
image)
Any list of name/value pairs
17.HTML Page Layouts
Web page layout is very important to give better look to your website.
You should design your webpage layout very carefully.
You may have noticed that there are many websites which have put
their content in multiple columns - they are formatted like a magazine or
newspaper. This is easily achieved by using tables or division or span tags.
Sometime you use CSS as well to position various elements or to create
backgrounds or colorful look for the pages.
17.1 HTML Layout - Using Tables:
The simplest and most popular way of creating layouts is using HTML
<table> tag. These tables are arranged in columns and rows, so you can utilize
these rows and columns in whatever way you like.
For example, the following HTML layout example is achieved using a
table with 3 rows and 2 columns - but the header and footer column spans both
columns using the colspan attribute:
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<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color:#CC99FF;">
<h1>This is Web Page Main title</h1>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td style="background-color:#FFCCFF;
width:100px;text-align:top;">
<b>Main Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</td>
<td style="background-color:#eeeeee;height:200px;
width:300px;text-align:top;">
Technical and Managerial Tutorials
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color:#CC99FF;">
<center>
Copyright 2007 Tutorialspoint.com
</center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
This is Web Page Main title
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Main
Menu Technical and Managerial Tutorials
HTML
PHP
PERL...
Copyright 2007 Tutorialspoint.com
17.2 Multiuple Columns Layouts - Using Tables
You can design your webpage to put your web content in multiple
pages. You can keep your content in middle column and you can use left
column to use menu and right column can be used to put advertisement or some
other stuff. It will be very similar to our site tutorialspoint.com.
Here is an example to create three column layout:
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr valign="top">
<td style="background-color:#FFCCFF;width:20%;
text-align:top;">
<b>Main Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</td>
<td style="background-color:#eeeeee;height:200px;
width:60%;text-align:top;">
Technical and Managerial Tutorials
</td>
<td style="background-color:#FFCCFF;
width:20%;text-align:top;">
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<b>Right Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</td>
</tr>
<table>
This will produce following result:
Main Menu Technical and Managerial Tutorials
Right Menu
HTML
HTML
PHP
PHP
PERL...
PERL...
17.3 HTML Layouts - Using DIV, SPAN
The div element is a block level element used for grouping HTML
elements. While the div tag is a block-level element, the HTML span element is
used for grouping elements at an inline level.
Although we can achieve pretty nice layouts with HTML tables, tables
weren't really designed as a layout tool. Tables are more suited to presenting
tabular data.
You can achieve same result whatever you have achieved using <table>
tag in previous example.
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<div style="width:100%">
<div style="background-color:#CC99FF;">
<b style="font-size:150%">This is Web Page Main title</b>
</div>
<div style="background-color:#FFCCFF;
height:200px;width:100px;float:left;">
<b>Main Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</div>
<div style="background-color:#eeeeee;
height:200px;width:300px;float:left;">
Technical and Managerial Tutorials
</div>
<div style="background-color:#CC99FF;clear:both">
<center>
Copyright 2007 Tutorialspoint.com
</center>
</div>
</div>
This will produce following result:
This is Web Page Main title
Main
HTML
PHP
PERL...
Technical and Managerial Tutorials
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18. HTML Colors
Colors are very important to give a good look and feel to your website.
You can specify colors on page level using <body> tag or you can set colors for
individual tags.
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The <body> tag has following attributes which can be used to set
different colors:
bgcolor: Sets a color for the background of the page.
text: Sets a color for the body text.
alink: Sets a color for active links or selected links.
link: Sets a color for linked text.
vlink: Sets a color for visited links - that is, for linked text that you
have already clicked on.
NOTE: It is recommended to use CSS to set background or text colors.
18.1 HTML Color Coding Methods:
There are following three different methods to set colors in your web page:
Color names: You can specify color names directly like green, blue or red.
Hex codes: A six-digit code representing the amount of red, green, and blue
that make up the color.
Color decimal or percentage values: : This value is specified using the
rgb( ) property.
18.2 HTML Colors - Color Names:
You can sepecify direct a color name to set text or background color.
W3C has listed 16 basic color names that will validate with an HTML validator
but there are over 200 different color names supported by Netscape and IE.
Check a complete list of HTML Color Name.
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W3C Standard 16 Colors:
Here is the list of W3C Standard 16 Colors names and it is recommended to use
them.
Black
Gray
Silver
White
Yellow
Lime
Aqua
Fuchsia
Red
Green
Blue
Purple
Maroon
Olive
Navy
Teal
18.3 HTML Colors - Hex Codes:
A hexadecimal is a 6 digit representation of a color. The first two
digits(RR) represent a red value, the next two are a green value(GG), and the
last are the blue value(BB).
A hexadecimal value can be taken from any graphics software like
Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro or even using Advanced Paint Brush.
Each hexadecimal code will be preceded by a pound or hash sign #.
Following are the examples to use Hexadecimal notation.
Color
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#000000
#FF0000
#00FF00
#0000FF
#FFFF00
#00FFFF
#FF00FF
#C0C0C0
#FFFFFF
18.4 HTML Colors - RGB Values:
This color value is specified using the rgb( ) property. This property
takes three values, one each for red, green, and blue. The value can be an
integer between 0 and 255 or a percentage.
NOTE: All the browsers does not support rgb() property of color so it is
recommended not to use it.
Following is the example to show few colors using RGB values.
Color
Color RGB
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(255,0,0)
rgb(0,255,0)
rgb(0,0,255)
rgb(255,255,0)
rgb(0,255,255)
rgb(255,0,255)
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rgb(192,192,192)
rgb(255,255,255)
18.5 Building Color Codes:
You can build millions of color codes using our Color Code Builder.
Check our HTML Color Code Builder. To use this tool you would need a Java
Enabled Browser.
18.6 Browser Safe Colors:
Here is the list of 216 colors which are supposed to be most safe and
computer independent colors. These colors very from hexa code 000000 to
FFFFFF. These color are safe to use because they ensure that all computers
would display the colors correctly when running a 256 color palette:
000000
000033
000066
000099
0000CC
0000FF
003300
003333
003366
003399
0033CC
0033FF
006600
006633
006666
006699
0066CC
0066FF
009900
009933
009966
009999
0099CC
0099FF
00CC00 00CC33
00CC66
00CC99
00CCCC 00CCFF
00FF00
00FF33
00FF66
00FF99
00FFCC
00FFFF
330000
330033
330066
330099
3300CC
3300FF
333300
333333
333366
333399
3333CC
3333FF
336600
336633
336666
336699
3366CC
3366FF
339900
339933
339966
339999
3399CC
3399FF
33CC00 33CC33
33CC66
33CC99
33CCCC 33CCFF
33FF00
33FF33
33FF66
33FF99
33FFCC
33FFFF
660000
660033
660066
660099
6600CC
6600FF
663300
663333
663366
663399
6633CC
6633FF
666600
666633
666666
666699
6666CC
6666FF
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669900
669966
669999
6699CC
66CC00 66CC33
66CC66
66CC99
66CCCC 66CCFF
66FF00
66FF33
66FF66
66FF99
66FFCC
66FFFF
990000
990033
990066
990099
9900CC
9900FF
993300
993333
993366
993399
9933CC
9933FF
996600
996633
996666
996699
9966CC
9966FF
999900
999933
999966
999999
9999CC
9999FF
99CC00 99CC33
99CC66
99CC99
99CCCC 99CCFF
99FF00
99FF33
99FF66
99FF99
99FFCC
CC0000 CC0033
CC0066
CC0099
CC00CC CC00FF
CC3300 CC3333
CC3366
CC3399
CC33CC CC33FF
CC6600 CC6633
CC6666
CC6699
CC66CC CC66FF
CC9900 CC9933
CC9966
CC9999
CC99CC CC99FF
CCCC33
CCCC66
CCCC99
CCFF00 CCFF33
CCFF66
CCFF99
CCFFCC CCFFFF
FF0000
FF0033
FF0066
FF0099
FF00CC
FF00FF
FF3300
FF3333
FF3366
FF3399
FF33CC
FF33FF
FF6600
FF6633
FF6666
FF6699
FF66CC
FF66FF
FF9900
FF9933
FF9966
FF9999
FF99CC
FF99FF
FFCC00 FFCC33
FFCC66
FFCC99
FFCCCC FFCCFF
FFFF00 FFFF33
FFFF66
FFFF99
FFFFCC
CCCC0
0
669933
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C
6699FF
99FFFF
CCCCFF
FFFFFF
HTML
19.
HTML Forms:
HTML Forms are required when you want to collect some data from the
site visitor. For example registration information: name, email address, credit
card, etc.
A form will take input from the site visitor and then will post your backend application such as CGI, ASP Script or PHP script etc. Then your back-end
application will do required processing on that data in whatever way you like.
Form elements are like text fields, textarea fields, drop-down menus,
radio buttons, checkboxes, etc. which are used to take information from the
user.
A simple syntax of using <form> is as follows:
<form action="back-end script" method="posting method">
form elements like input, textarea etc.
</form>
Most frequently used form attributes are:
name: This is the name of the form.
action: Here you will specify any script URL which will receive
uploaded data.
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method: Here you will specify method to be used to upload data. It can
take
various values but most frequently used are GET and POST.
target: It specifies the target page where the result of the script will be
displayed. It takes values like _blank, _self, _parent etc.
enctype: You can use the enctype attribute to specify how the browser
encodes the data before it sends it to the server. Possible values are like:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded - This is the standard
method most forms use. It converts spaces to the plus sign and
non-alphanumeric characters into the hexadecimal code for that
character in ASCII text.
mutlipart/form-data - This allows the data to be sent in parts,
with each consecutive part corresponding the a form control, in
the order they appear in the form. Each part can have an optional
content-type header of its own indicating the type of data for
that form control.
There are different types of form controls that you can use to collect
data from a visitor to your site.
Text input controls
Buttons
Checkboxes and radio buttons
Select boxes
File select boxes
Hidden controls
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Submit and reset button
19.1 HTML Forms - Text Input Controls:
There are actually three types of text input used on forms:
Single-line text input controls: Used for items that require only one line of
user input, such as search boxes or names. They are created using the
<input> element.
Password input controls: Single-line text input that mask the characters a
user enters.
Multi-line text input controls: Used when the user is required to give
details that may be longer than a single sentence. Multi-line input controls
are created with the <textarea> element.
19.2 Single-line text input controls:
Single-line text input controls are created using an <input> element
whose type attribute has a value of text.
Here is a basic example of a single-line text input used to take first
name and last name:
<form action="/cgi-bin/hello_get.cgi" method="get">
First name:
<input type="text" name="first_name" />
<br>
Last name:
<input type="text" name="last_name" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
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</form>
This will produce following result:
First
name:
Last
name:
Following is the list of attributes for <input> tag.
type: Indicates the type of input control you want to create. This element is
also used to create other form controls such as radio buttons and
checkboxes.
name: Used to give the name part of the name/value pair that is sent to the
server, representing each form control and the value the user entered.
value: Provides an initial value for the text input control that the user will
see when the form loads.
size: Allows you to specify the width of the text-input control in terms of
characters.
maxlength: Allows you to specify the maximum number of characters a
user can enter into the text box.
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19.3 Password input controls::
This is also a form of single-line text input controls are created using an
<input> element whose type attribute has a value of password.
Here is a basic example of a single-line password input used to take
user password:
<form action="/cgi-bin/hello_get.cgi" method="get">
Login :
<input type="text" name="login" />
<br>
Password:
<input type="text" name="password" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
This will produce following result:
Login
Password
19.4 Multiple-Line Text Input Controls:
If you want to allow a visitor to your site to enter more than one line of
text, you should create a multiple-line text input control using the <textarea>
element.
Here is a basic example of a multi-line text input used to take item description:
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<form action="/cgi-bin/hello_get.cgi" method="get">
Description : <br />
<textarea rows="5" cols="50" name="description">
Enter description here...
</textarea>
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
This will produce following result:
Description
Following is the detail of above used attributes for <textarea> tag.
name: The name of the control. This is used in the name/value pair that
is sent to the server.
rows: Indicates the number of rows of text area box.
cols: Indicates the number of columns of text area box.
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19.5 HTML Forms - Creating Button:
There are various ways in HTML to create clickable buttons. You can
create clickable button using <input> tag.
When you use the <input> element to create a button, the type of button
you create is specified using the type attribute. The type attribute can take the
following values:
submit: This creates a button that automatically submits a form.
reset: This creates a button that automatically resets form controls to
their initial values.
button: This creates a button that is used to trigger a client-side script
when the user clicks that button.
Here is the example:
<form action="http://www.example.com/test.asp" method="get">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
<br /><br />
<input type="reset" value="Reset" />
<input type="button" value="Button" />
</form>
This will produce following result:
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You can use an image to create a button. Here is the syntax:
<form action="http://www.example.com/test.asp" method="get">
<input type="image" name="imagebutton" src="URL" />
</form>
Here src attribiute specifies a location of the image on your webserver.
You can use <button> element to create various buttons. Here is the syntax:
<form action="http://www.example.com/test.asp" method="get">
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
<br /><br />
<button type="reset"> Reset </button>
<button type="button"> Button </button>
</form>
This will produce following result:
Submit
ResetButton
19.6 HTML Forms - Checkboxes Control:
Checkboxes are used when more than one option is required to be
selected. They are created using <input> tag as shown below.
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Here is example HTML code for a form with two checkboxes
<form action="/cgi-bin/checkbox.cgi" method="get">
<input type="checkbox" name="maths" value="on"> Maths
<input type="checkbox" name="physics" value="on"> Physics
<input type="submit" value="Select Subject" />
</form>
The result of this code is the following form
Maths
Physics
Following is the list of important checkbox attributes:
type: Indicates that you want to create a checkbox.
name: Name of the control.
value: The value that will be used if the checkbox is selected. More
than one checkbox should share the same name only if you want to
allow users to select several items from the same list.
checked: Indicates that when the page loads, the checkbox should be
selected.
19.7 HTML Forms - Raidobox Control:
Radio Buttons are used when only one option is required to be selected.
They are created using <input> tag as shown below:
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Here is example HTML code for a form with two radio button:
<form action="/cgi-bin/radiobutton.cgi" method="post">
<input type="radio" name="subject" value="maths" /> Maths
<input type="radio" name="subject" value="physics" /> Physics
<input type="submit" value="Select Subject" />
</form>
The result of this code is the following form
Maths
Physics
Following is the list of important radiobox attributes:
type: Indicates that you want to create a radiobox.
name: Name of the control.
value: Used to indicate the value that will be sent to the server if this
option is selected.
checked: Indicates that this option should be selected by default when
the page loads.
19.8 HTML Forms - Select box Control:
Drop Down Box is used when we have many options available to be
selected but only one or two will be selected..
Here is example HTML code for a form with one drop down box
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<form action="/cgi-bin/dropdown.cgi" method="post">
<select name="dropdown">
<option value="Maths" selected>Maths</option>
<option value="Physics">Physics</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
The result of this code is the following form
Following is the list of important attributes of <select>:
name: This is the name for the control.
size: This can be used to present a scrolling list box.
multiple: If set to "multiple" then allows a user to select multiple items
from the menu.
Following is the list of important attributes of <option>:
value: The value that is sent to the server if this option is selected.
selected: Specifies that this option should be the initially selected value
when the page loads.
label: An alternative way of labeling options.
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19.9 HTML Forms - File Select Boxes:
If you want to allow a user to upload a file to your web site from his
computer, you will need to use a file upload box, also known as a file select
box. This is also created using the <input> element.
Here is example HTML code for a form with one file select box
<form action="/cgi-bin/hello_get.cgi" method="post"
name="fileupload" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="fileupload" accept="image/*" />
</form>
The result of this code is the following form
19.10 HTML Forms - Hidden Controls:
If you will want to pass information between pages without the user
seeing it. Hidden form controls remain part of any form, but the user cannot see
them in the Web browser. They should not be used for any sensitive
information you do not want the user to see because the user could see this data
if she looked in the source of the page.
Following hidden form is being used to keep current page number.
When a user will click next page then the value of hidden form will be sent to
the back-end application and it will decide which page has be displayed next.
<form action="/cgi-bin/hello_get.cgi"
method="get" name="pages">
<p>This is page 10</p>
<input type="hidden" name="pgaenumber" value="10" />
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<input type="submit" value="Next Page" />
</form>
This will produce following result:
This is page 10
19.11 HTML Forms - Submit and Reset Button:
These are special buttons which can be created using <input> When
submit button is clicked then Forms data is submitted to the back-end
application. When reset button is clicked then all the forms control are reset to
default state.
You already have seen submit button above, we will give one reset example
here:
<form action="/cgi-bin/hello_get.cgi" method="get">
First name:
<input type="text" name="first_name" />
<br>
Last name:
<input type="text" name="last_name" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="reset" value="Reset" />
</form>
This will produce following result. Type something and click reset button.
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First
name:
Last
name:
20. HTML Backgrounds
There are two ways to decorate your web page background.
Background Colors
Background Images
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20.1 Background Colors:
The bgcolor attribute is used to control the background of an HTML
elmement, specifically page body and table backgrounds. Following is the
syntax to use bgcolor attribute with any HTML tag.
<tagname bgcolor="color_value"...>
This color_value can be given in any of the form.
<!-- Give color name -->
<table bgcolor="lime" >
<!-- Give hex value -->
<table bgcolor="#f1f1f1" >
<!-- Give color value in RGB terms -->
<table bgcolor="rgb(0,0,120)" >
Example:
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag.
<!-- Give color name -->
<table bgcolor="yellow" width="100%" >
<tr><td>
This background is yellow
</td></tr>
</table>
<!-- Give hex value -->
<table bgcolor="#6666FF" width="100%" >
<tr><td>
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This background is sky blue
</td></tr>
</table>
<!-- Give color value in RGB terms -->
<table bgcolor="rgb(0,0,255)" width="100%" >
<tr><td>
This background is blue
</td></tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
This background is yellow
This background is sky blue
This background is blue
20.2 Background Images:
The background attribute can also be used to control the background of
an HTML elmement, specifically page body and table backgrounds. You can
specify an image to set background of your HMTL page or table. Following is
the syntax to use background attribute with any HTML tag.
The background is deprecated and it is recommended to use Style Sheet
for background setting.
<tagname background="Image URL"...>
Example:
Here are the examples to set background images of a table.
<!-- How to set a table background -->
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<table background="/images/html.gif" width="100%" height="100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with HTML image.
</td></tr>
</table>
<table
background="/images/home.gif"
width="100%"
height="100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with home image.
</td></tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
This background is filled up with HTML image.
This background is filled up with home image.
Note that when your HTML element is larger than the dimensions of
your picture, the image simply begins to repeat itself.
20.3 Patterned & Transparent Backgrounds:
You might have seen many pattern or transparent backgrounds on
various websites. This simply can be achieved by using patterend image or
transparent image in the background.
It is suggested that when creating patterns or transparent gifs, use the
smallest dimensions possible even as small as 1x1 if you can. Larger files load
slow and inhibit the load time of your sites.
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Here are the examples to set background pattern of a table.
<!-- How to set a table background using pattrern -->
<table
background="/images/pattern1.gif"
width="100%"
height="100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
</td></tr>
</table>
<!-- Another example on table background using pattrern -->
<table
background="/images/pattern2.gif"
height="100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
</td></tr>
</table>
This will produce following result:
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
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21. HTML Embed Multimedia - Movie,
Music
You can add music or video into your web page. The easiest way to add
video or sound to your web site is to include the special HTML tag called
<embed>. This tag causes the browser itself to include controls for the
multimedia automatically. You do not need to have any ActiveX, Java VM,
VBscript or JavaScript to support this <embed> tag.
It's also a good idea to include the <noembed> tag to support browsers
which don't recognize the <embed> tag. You could, for example, use <embed>
to display a movie of your choice, and <noembed> to display a single JPG
image.
Here is a simple example to play embed a midi file:
<embed src="/html/yourfile.mid" width="100%" height="60" >
<noembed><img src="yourimage.gif" ></noembed>
</embed>
This will produce following result:
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You can put any media file in src attribute. You can try it yourself by
giving various files.
21.1 Attributes:
Following is the list of important attributes for <embed> element.
align - Determines how to align the object. It takes either center, left or
right.
autostart - Indicates if the media should start automatically. Netscape
default is true, Internet Explorer is false.
loop - Specifies if the sound should be played continuously (set loop to
true), a certain number of times (a positive value) or not at all (false).
This is supported by Netscape only.
playcount - Specifies the number of times to play the sound. This is
alternat option for loop if you are usiong IE.
hidden - Defines if the object shows on the page. A false value means
no and true means yes.
height - Height of the object in pixels or en.
width - Width of the object in pixels or en.
pluginspage - Specifies the URL to get the plugin software.
name - A name used to reference the object.
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src - URL of the object to be embedded. This can be any recognizable
by the user's browser. It could be .mid, .wav, .mp3, .avi and so on).
volume - Controls volume of the sound. Can be from 0 (off) to 100 (full
volume). This attribute is supported by Netscape only.
21.2 HTML - Video Media Types
Flash movies (.swf), AVI's (.avi), and MOV's (.mov) file types are
supported by the embed tag.
.swf files - are the file types created by Macromedia's Flash program.
.wmv files - are Microsoft's Window's Media Video file types.
.mov files - are Apple's Quick Time Movie format.
.mpeg files - are movie files created by the Moving Pictures Expert
Group.
Here is a simple example to play a flash file.
<embed src="/html/yourfile.swf" width="100%" height="250" >
<noembed><img
src="yourimage.gif"
alt="yourimage.gif"
/></noembed>
</embed>
This will produce following result. Select a picture and paint it using virtual
bursh.
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21.3 Background Audio - The <bgsound> Element:
You can use the <bgsound> tag to play a soundtrack in the background.
This tag is for Internet Explorer documents only. Other browsers ignore the tag.
It downloads and plays an audio file when the host document is first
downloaded by the user and displayed. The background sound file also will
replay whenever the user refreshes the browser display.
This tag is having only two attributes loop and src. Both these attributes
have same meaning as explained above.
Here is a simple example to play a small midi file:
<bgsound src="/html/yourfile.mid" >
<noembed><img
src="yourimage.gif"
alt="yourimage.gif"
/></noembed>
</bgsound>
This will produce blank screen. This tag does not display any
component and remains hidden.
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Currently, Internet Explorer can handle three different sound format
files: wav, the native format for PCs; au, the native format for most Unix
workstations; and MIDI, a universal music-encoding scheme.
21.4 HTML Object tag:
HTML 4 introduces the <object> element, which offers an all-purpose
solution to generic object inclusion. The <object> element allows HTML
authors to specify everything required by an object for its presentation by a user
agent
Here are few example:
You can embed a HTML document in an HTML document itself as follows:
<object data="data/test.htm" type="text/html"
width="300" height="200">
alt : <a href="data/test.htm">test.htm</a>
</object>
Here alt attribute will come into picture if browser does not support object tag.
You can embed a PDF document in an HTML document as follows:
<object data="data/test.htm" type="application/pdf"
width="300" height="200">
alt : <a href="data/test.pdf">test.pdf</a>
</object>
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You can specify some parameters related to the document with the
param tag. IE sometimes needs a src parameter to understand the location. Here
is an exmaple to embed a wav file:
<object type="audio/x-wav" data="data/test.wav"
width="200" height="20">
<param name="src" value="data/test.wav">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="autoStart" value="0">
alt : <a href="data/test.wav">test.wav</a>
</object>
You can add a flash document as follows:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
id="penguin" codebase="someplace/swflash.cab"
width="200" height="300">
<param name="movie" value="flash/penguin.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<img src="penguin.jpg" width="200"
height="300" alt="Penguin" />
</object>
You can add a java applet into HTML document as follows:
<object
classid="clsid:8ad9c840-044e-11d1-b3e9-00805f499d93"
width="200" height="200">
<param name="code" value="applet.class">
</object>
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The classid attribute identifies which version of Java Plug-in to use. You
can use the optional codebase attribute to specify if and how to download the
JRE.
For a complete list of attributes of this object please check HTML Object Tag.
21.5 Referencing Audio, Video, and Images:
You can reference any external document, regardless of type or format,
via a conventional anchor tag:
Here is an example to reference an audio file. Similar way you can refer
any world document, PDF file, zip file etc.
If you want to listen music then
<a href="/html/yourfile.mid" target="_blank" > Click Here </a>
This will produce following result:
If you want to listen music then Click Here
Just like any referenced document, the server delivers the desired
multimedia object to the browser when the user selects the link. If the browser
finds that the document is not HTML or XHTML but rather some other format,
it automatically invokes an appropriate rendering tool to display or otherwise
convey the contents of the object to the user.
Browsers identify and specially handle multimedia files from one of
two different hints: either from the file's Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
(MIME) type, provided by the server, or from a special suffix in the file's name.
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The browser prefers MIME because of its richer description of the file and its
contents, but it will infer the file's contents (type and format) from the file
suffix: .gif or .jpg, for GIF and JPEG encoded images, for example, or .au for a
special sound file.
22.HTML Styles
Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens, in print,
or perhaps how they are pronounced. W3C has actively promoted the use of
style sheets on the Web since the Consortium was founded in 1994.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet mechanism that has been
specifically developed to meet the needs of Web designers and users.
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With CSS, you can specify a number of style properties for a given
HTML element. Each property has a name and a value, separated by a colon (:).
Each property declaration is separated by a semi-colon (;).
<p style="color:red;font-size:24px;">Using Style Sheet Rules</p>
This will produce following result:
Using Style Sheet Rules
There are three ways of using a style sheet in an HTML document:
22.1 External Style Sheet:
If you have to give same look and feel to many pages then it is a good
idea to keep all the style sheet rules in a single style sheet file and include this
file in all the HTML pages. You can incluse a style sheet file into HTML
document using <link> element. Below is an example:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="yourstyle.css">
</head>
22.2 Internal Style Sheet:
If you want to apply Style Sheet rules to a single document only then
you can include those rules into that document only. Below is an example:
<head>
<style type="text/css">
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body{background-color: pink;}
p{color:blue; 20px;font-size:24px;}
</style>
</head>
22.3 Inline Style Sheet:
You can apply style sheet rules directly to any HTML element. This
should be done only when you are interested to make a particular change in any
HTML element only. To use inline styles you use the style attribute in the
relevant tag. Below is an example:
<p style="color:red;font-size:24px;">Using Style Sheet Rules</p>
This will produce following result:
Using Style Sheet Rules
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23.HTML Scripts
A script is a small piece of program that can add interactivity to your
website. For example, a script could generate a pop-up alert box message, or
provide a dropdown menu. This script could be Javascript or VBScript.
You can write your Event Handlers using any of the scripting language
and then you can trigger those functions using HTML attributes.
There are two ways of using a style sheet in an HTML document:
23.1 External Script:
If you have to use a single script functionality among many HTML
pages then it is a good idea to keep that function in a single script file and then
include this file in all the HTML pages. You can incluse a style sheet file into
HTML document using <script> element. Below is an example:
<head>
<script src="yourfile.js" type="text/javascript" />
</head>
23.2 Internal Script:
You can write your script code directly into your HTML document.
Usually we keep script code in header of the document using <script> tag,
otherwise there is no restriction and you can put your source code anywhere in
the document. You can specify whether to make a script run automatically (as
soon as the page loads), or after the user has done something (like click on a
link). Below is an example this would write a Hello Javascript! message as
soon as the page loads.:
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<head>
<title>Internal Script</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("Hello Javascript!")
</script>
</body>
This will produce following result:
23.3 Writing Event Handler:
It is very easy to write an event handler. Following example explains
how to write an event handler. Let's write one simple function myAlert in the
header of the document. We will call this function when any user will bring
mouse over a paragraph written in the example.
<head>
<title>Event Handler Example t</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function myAlert()
{
alert("I am an event handler....");
return;
}
</script>
</head>
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<body>
<span onmouseover="myAlert();">
Bring your mouse here to see an alert
</span>
</body>
Now this will produce following result. Bring your mouse over this line
and see the result:
Bring your mouse here to see an alert
23.4 Hide Scripts from Older Browsers
Athough most (if not all) browsers these days support scripts, some
older browsers don't. If a browser doesn't support JavaScript, instead of running
your script, it would display the code to the user. To prevent this from
happening, you can simply place HTML comments around the script. Older
browsers will ignore the script, while newer browsers will run it.
JavaScript Example:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!-document.write("Hello Javascript!");
//-->
</script>
VBScript Example:
<script type="text/vbscript">
<!-document.write("Hello VBScript!")
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'-->
</script>
23.5 The <noscript> Element:
You can also provide alternative info for users whose browsers don't
support scripts and for users who have disabled scripts. You do this using the
<noscript> tag.
JavaScript Example:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!-document.write("Hello Javascript!");
//-->
</script>
<noscript>Your browser does not support Javascript!</noscript>
VBScript Example:
<script type="text/vbscript">
<!-document.write("Hello VBScript!")
'-->
</script>
<noscript>Your browser does not support VBScript!</noscript>
23.6 Default Scripting Language
You can specify a default scripting language for all your script tags to
use. This saves you from having to specify the language everytime you use a
script tag within the page. Below is the example:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/JavaScript" />
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Note that you can still override the default by specifying a language
within the script tag.
Note : I will upload all HTML tags later as a separate material
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