HTML doesn’t have a page break tag. Consider what the term page means in a web document. If each document on the web is a single page, the only way to produce a page break is to split your HTML document into separate files and link them. Even within a single document, browsers have no … Read more
You bet. If you can get to a URL using your browser, you can put that URL in a link. Note, however, that some browsers support URLs that others don’t. For example, Lynx is really good with mailto URLs (URLs that enable you to send electronic mail to a person’s email address). When you select … Read more
Many kinds of URLs are defined by the Uniform Resource Locator specification. This post describes some of the more popular URLs and some situations to look out for when using them. HTTP HTTP URLs are by far the most common type of URLs because they point to other documents on the Web. HTTP is the protocol … Read more
To create a link in HTML, you need two things: The name of the file (or the URL) to which you want to link The text that will serve as the clickable link Only the text included within the link tag is actually visible on your page. When your readers click the link, the browser … Read more
Yes, you can enclose HTML tags within comments, and the browser will not display them. In fact, it’s common to use comments to temporarily hide sections of a page, especially when testing things. Programmers (and web developers) generally refer to this as “commenting it out.”
To create a link in HTML, you need two things: The name of the file (or the URL) to which you want to link The text that will serve as the clickable link Only the text included within the link tag is actually visible on your page. When your readers click the link, the browser … Read more
Unordered lists are often referred to as bulleted lists. Instead of being numbered, each element in the list has the same marker. The markup to create an unordered list looks just like an ordered list except that the list is created by using <ul>…</ul> tags rather than ol . The elements of the list are … Read more
tag the general-purpose tag for use when styling a page?
No. The <div> tag is the general-purpose tag for containing content on a page. The <p> tag is intended specifically to hold paragraphs of text. There are many tags that are not valid when placed within a <p> tag, including <div> .
Yes, you can enclose HTML tags within comments, and the browser will not display them. In fact, it’s common to use comments to temporarily hide sections of a page, especially when testing things. Programmers (and web developers) generally refer to this as “commenting it out.”
HTML defines three tags that are used to define the page’s overall structure and provide some simple header information . These three tags— <html> , <head> , and <body> —make up the basic skeleton of every web page. They also provide simple information about the page before loading the entire thing. The page structure tags … Read more