Jan's Guide to HTML

Table of Contents

Welcome to my guide to HTML and beyond. Regular visitors may want to check out the recent updates page. An alphabetical index is now also available.

Introduction

About This Guide - What do I need? - About HTML - Tags And Attributes - Some Definitions

The basic HTML documents

The Basic HTML Document - Force Loading A Page - Base URL For Relative Links - The LINK Element - Setting The Background Colour - Using An Image As Background - An Unmoving Background - Setting The Color Of Text And Links - More About Text Color - Horizontal Rulers - Comments

Placing Your Text

Paragraphs - Break - Or Not To Break - Headers - Font Style Elements - Pre-Formatted Text - Changing Font Size - Superscript And Subscript - Setting The Text Colour - Setting The Font Face - Blinking Text - Indenting Text

Images

Inline Images - About Interlaced GIF's - Align Attribute - Align Left And Right - HSPACE And VSPACE Attributes - Width And Height Attributes - Border Attribute - Centering Images On The Screen

Lists

Unordered List - Ordered List - Definition Lists - COMPACT Attribute - Nested Lists

Anchors (links to documents)

Anchors (Links To Documents) - Opening The Document In A New Window - Linking From Images - Client Side Image Maps - Absolute And Relative Links - Access Key - Links Within Documents - Linking Directly To A Section Of A Document - Linking To E-Mail Addresses - Linking To Other Internet Protocols - Using The TITLE Attribute

Creating tables

How To Create Tables - Centering Tables - Aligning Tables Left Or Right - Width Of Table And Cells - Height Of Table And Cells - Space Around Contents Of Cells - Space Between Cells - Aligning The Contents Of Cells - Size Of The Border Of The Table - Cells That Span More Than One Column Or Row - Table Headers - Table Captions - Colouring Cells And Borders - Text Wrapping In A Cell - Using A Table To Put Text In Columns

Creating Frames

Frames - Inline Frames

Using forms

Form Basics - Text Field - Password Fields - Text Areas - Radio Buttons - Checkboxes - Pop-Up Menus - Selecting From Lists - Hidden Input - Reset Button - Submit Button

Javascript Examples

About JavaScript - Date And Time Of The Document - Hiding Your E-mail Address - Loading Stylesheets Depending on Platform - More Browser Information - Messages In The Status Bar - Displaying Alerts - Default Values in Forms - A Button As A Link - Using A Pop-Up Menu To Link - A Pop-Up Menu With A Confirm Button

Server Side Includes

Introduction - Changing The Time Format - Changing The Size Format - Customize Error Messages - Including Files - Hide And Show - Hide And Show By Time - Hide And Show By Browsers - Hide And Show At Random - More Hide And Show - If And Endif - If, Endif And Environment Variables - Set - Echo - Print Environment - Execute A Script - File Size - File Date

CGI & Perl

The Basics - CGI & SSI - Who Is Using My Script? - Handling Forms - Getting the User's Input - Verify the Input - Sending Email - Writing To A File - What Can Go Wrong?

Style Sheets

Introduction - Using An External Style Sheet - Using A Style Tag - Using A Style Attribute - The Formatting Model - Background Colour - Background Image - Foreground Colour - Borders - Padding - Margins - Font Family - Font Weight - Font Style - Font Variant - Font Size - Letter Spacing - Line Height - Text Align - Setting Link Styles - Forcing a Page Break When Printing

Extended Characters

Extended Characters For HTML

Colour codes

More Than 100 Examples Of Colours, With Names And Hexadecimal Codes

Other HTML resources

HTML Resources - JavaScript Resources - Style Sheet Resources

Index by Alphabet

An Alphabetical Index To Tags And Keywords In This Guide.


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