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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
TweetCSS allows us to move elements around the page, and even stack elements on top of each other. We can control the dimensions and positions of elements at the pixel level. This is one of the most significant advantages of using CSS for presentation rather than HTML attributes. Elements in CSS largely fall into two [...]
Tags: block elements, block level elements, boxes, bugs, css3, html attributes, inline element, inline elements, pixel level, span, stack elements, ul
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
TweetThe asterisk is known as the star selector, or wildcard. It just means “everything” and can be very useful in CSS. * { border: 1px solid red; } This example selected all of the elements in your html document at once, and told the browser to give them all a red border, one pixel wide [...]
Tags: asterisk, background color, background colour, body background, body element, body tag, caption, css properties, curly braces, dashes, dots, element name, html attributes, html body, html document, one good reason, quot, semi colon, text colour, value pair
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
TweetFor links for this lesson (the W3C online validator) see separate sheet. resources HTML elements can take various attribute and value pairs, which tell the browser something extra about how to display the element, or give more information which can be used by web crawlers (Googlebot et al) or assistive devices such as screen readers. We [...]
Tags: assistive devices, attribute, background colour, bgcolor, body tag, element, elements, html attributes, lt, mypage, quality examples, quotes, screen readers, universal resource locator, value pair, value pairs, w3c schools, web crawlers, web page
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
TweetLists are very important in HTML, and are a little more complicated. There are two basic types of lists: Ordered lists have UPPER or lower case letters, numbers or roman numerals. This can be specified using HTML attribute and value pairs, but is best done with CSS. You can also start your list from a [...]
Tags: anchor, attribute, bullet points, caption, case letters, different shapes, html attributes, hypertext reference, lower case, lt, own website, roman numerals, scratch, value pairs
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