Posts Tagged ‘lt’
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Although it is considered best practice to use CSS to place images in a web page, it is still very useful to know how to do this with HTML. Here is the basic code to include a picture called mycat.jpg in your HTML document: <img src=”mycat.jpg” alt=”my cat Fluffy” /> Notice this is another self-closing [...]
Tags: advantages and disadvantages, attribute, bad idea, element, html document, image file, images, img src, lt, mycat, own website, photographs, png, savin, short description, value pairs, web page
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a separate language used to change the way things look on an HTML page. It looks quite different to HTML, but if you think of it as simply lists of attributes and values for each element on your page, in a separate document, you will find it [...]
Tags: attributes, basic principle, cascading style sheets, css file, css href, doctype html, element, first web, html document, html page, link rel, link tag, lt, notepad, style css, style type, stylesheet languages, tag tags, web markup language, web page
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
For 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
Lists 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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Friday, August 5th, 2011
HTML tags usually come in pairs, which surround parts of the text on the page. There are a few exceptions which don’t need a closing tag. In this lesson we covered the essential tags which you need to know to “mark up” (put HTML tags into) your web page. Most of these reflect the meaning [...]
Tags: assistive devices, default browser, eggs, exceptions, html tags, lt, mistake, pairs, paragraphs, semantic markup, semantic tags, visualise, vocabulary, web page
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
When you use your browser to look at a web page, it talks to the server, which sends back the right file (page). You can imagine this like someone getting a message in morse code: computers use a simple system of 0′s and 1′s. Just like the dots and dashes in morse code can be [...]
Tags: dots and dashes, heading, italics, lt, morse code message, pairs, props, scenery, special message, turtles, web page
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
If you’ve been paying any attention to my blog you will have seen that I never finished styling the tweet feed widget. The issue was this: there are some inline styles which the widget inserts dynamically. I didn’t quite realise this until I went back to finish off my stying. In case you don’t know [...]
Tags: bd, blog, borders, bugs, css, design, doc overflow, firebug, html, img border, inline styles, lt, radius, tweet, twitter, twtr, widget, zoom
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