Table of Contents

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.