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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
TweetIn the previous lesson we learned how to link a CSS file to an HTML document and how to use the Star Selector or Wildcard to put a border around every element on the page. You should have a file named stlye.css saved in the same folder as index.html. If you do not, please consult [...]
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
TweetAlthough 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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