Chapter 1 (Introduction To HTML)

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Chapter 1 (Introduction to HTML)
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the most widely used
language to write Web Pages.
 Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are linked together.
 Markup Language which means you use HTML to simply "mark up" a text document with
tags that tell a Web browser how to structure it to display.
Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of
documents like headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of
scientific information between researchers.
Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags
available in HTML language.
Basic HTML Document

In its simplest form, following is an example of an HTML document:
HTML Document Structure

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Sun Infotech Solutiona</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Company Profile</h1>
<p>We are a group of Software Professionals working in the field of Information technology.....</p>
</body>
</html>
Save it in an HTML file test.htm using your favorite text editor notepad. Finally open it
using a web browser like Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, or Firefox etc.
HTML Tags
As told earlier, HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format
the content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>. Except few tags,
most of the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For example <html> has its
closing tag </html> and <body> tag has its closing tag</body> tag etc.
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To learn HTML, you will need to study various tags and understand how do they
behave while formatting a textual document. Learning HTML is simple.
We will study all the header and body tags in subsequent chapters, for now let's see
what is document declaration tag.
The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration

Current version of HTML is 5 and it makes use of the following declaration:
<!DOCTYPE html>
HTML Basic Tags

Heading Tags
Any document starts with a heading. You can use different sizes for your headings.
HTML also has six levels of headings, which use the elements <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>,
<h5>, and <h6>. While displaying any heading, browser adds one line before and one
line after that heading.
Paragraph Tag
The <p> tag offers a way to structure your text into different paragraphs. Each
paragraph of text should go in between an opening <p> and a closing </p> tag as
shown below in the example:
Line Break Tag

Whenever you use the <br /> element, anything following it starts from the next line.
This tag is an example of an empty element, where you do not need opening and
closing tags, as there is nothing to go in between them.
The <br /> tag has a space between the characters br and the forward slash. If you
omit this space, older browsers will have trouble rendering the line break, while if you
miss the forward slash character and just use <br> it is not valid in XHTML
Centering Content
You can use <center> tag to put any content in the center of the page or any table cell.
Horizontal Lines
Horizontal lines are used to visually break up sections of a document. The <hr> tag
creates a line from the current position in the document to the right margin and breaks
the line accordingly.
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Again <hr /> tag is an example of the empty element, where you do not need opening and
closing tags, as there is nothing to go in between them.
Non breaking Spaces

Suppose you want to use the phrase "12 Angry Men." Here you would not want a
browser to split the "12, Angry" and "Men"across two lines:
In cases where you do not want the client browser to break text, you should use a non
breaking space entity instead of a normal space. For example, when coding the "12
Angry Men" in a paragraph, you should use something similar to the following code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Nonbreaking Spaces Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."</p>
</body>
</html>
An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the element contains other content, it
ends with a closing tag, where the element name is preceded by a forward slash as
shown below with few tags:
Start Tag Content End Tag
<p> This is paragraph content. </p>
<h1> This is heading content. </h1>
<div> This is division content. </div>
<br />
So here <p>....</p> is an HTML element, <h1>...</h1> is another HTML element.

There are some HTML elements which don't need to be closed, such as <img.../>, <hr
/> and <br /> elements. These are known as void elements.
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HTML documents consist of a tree of these elements and they specify how HTML
documents should be built, and what kind of content should be placed in what part of
an HTML document.
Nested HTML Elements

It is very much allowed to keep one HTML element inside another HTML element:
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Nested Elements Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is <i>italic</i> heading</h1>
<p>This is <u>underlined</u> paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML Attributes
We have seen few HTML tags and their usage like heading tags <h1>, <h2>,
paragraph tag <p> and other tags. We used them so far in their simplest form, but
most of the HTML tags can also have attributes, which are extra bits of information.
An attribute is used to define the characteristics of an HTML element and is

placed inside the element's opening tag. All attributes are made up of two
parts: a name and a value:
 The name is the property you want to set. For example, the paragraph <p>
element in the example carries an attribute whose name is align, which you
can use to indicate the alignment of paragraph on the page.
 The value is what you want the value of the property to be set and always put
within quotations. The below example shows three possible values of align
attribute:left, center and right.
Attribute names and attribute values are case-insensitive. However, the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) recommends lowercase attributes/attribute values in their HTML 4
recommendation.
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Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Align Attribute Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p align="left">This is left aligned</p>
<p align="center">This is center aligned</p>
<p align="right">This is right aligned</p>
</body>
</html>
This will display following result:
This is left aligned
This is center aligned
This is right aligned
Core Attributes
The four core attributes that can be used on the majority of HTML elements
(although not all) are:
 id
 title
 class
 style
The id Attribute
The id attribute of an HTML tag can be used to uniquely identify any
element within an HTML page. There are two primary reasons that you
might want to use an id attribute on an element:
 If an element carries an id attribute as a unique identifier it is possible to

identify just that element and its content.
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 If you have two elements of the same name within a Web page (or style sheet),
you can use the id attribute to distinguish between elements that have the
same name.
EXAMPLE
<p id="html">This para explains what is HTML</p>
<p id="css">This para explains what is Cascading Style Sheet</p>
The title Attribute

The title attribute gives a suggested title for the element. They syntax for
the title attribute is similar as explained for id attribute:
The behavior of this attribute will depend upon the element that carries it, although it is
often displayed as a tooltip when cursor comes over the element or while the element is
loading.
EXAMPLE
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The title Attribute Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3 title="Hello HTML!">Titled Heading Tag Example</h3>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result:
Titled Heading Tag Example
Now try to bring your cursor over "Titled Heading Tag Example" and you will see that
whatever title you used in your code is coming out as a tooltip of the cursor.
The class Attribute

The class attribute is used to associate an element with a style sheet, and
specifies the class of element. You will learn more about the use of the class
attribute when you will learn Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). So for now you can
avoid it.
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The value of the attribute may also be a space-separated list of class

names. For example:
class="className1 className2 className3"
The style Attribute

The style attribute allows you to specify Casecading Style Sheet (CSS) rules
within the element.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The style Attribute</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="font-family:arial; color:#FF0000;">Some text...</p>
</body>
</html>
At this point of time, we are not learning CSS, so just let's proceed without
bothering much about CSS. Here you need to understand what are HTML attributes
and how they can be used while formatting content.
If you use a word processor, you must be familiar with the ability to make text
bold, italicized, or underlined; these are just three of the ten options available to
indicate how text can appear in HTML and XHTML.
Bold Text
Anything that appears within <b>...</b> element, is displayed in bold as
shown below:
Italic Text
Anything that appears within <i>...</i> element is displayed in italicized
Underlined Text
Anything that appears within <u>...</u> element, is displayed with
underline
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Strike Text
Anything that appears within <strike>...</strike> element is displayed with
strikethrough, which is a thin line through the text as shown below:
The following word uses a strikethrough typeface.
Monospaced Font
The content of a <tt>...</tt> element is written in monospaced font. Most of the
fonts are known as variable-width fonts because different letters are of different
widths (for example, the letter 'm' is wider than the letter 'i'). In a monospaced
font, however, each letter has the same width.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Monospaced Font Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <tt>monospaced</tt> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
The following word uses a monospaced typeface.
Superscript Text
The content of a <sup>...</sup> element is written in superscript; the font size
used is the same size as the characters surrounding it but is displayed half a
character's height above the other characters.
The following word uses a superscript

typeface.
Subscript Text
The content of a <sub>...</sub> element is written in subscript; the font size
used is the same as the characters surrounding it, but is displayed half a
character's height beneath the other characters.
The following word uses a subscript typeface.

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Inserted Text
Anything that appears within <ins>...</ins> element is displayed as inserted
text.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Inserted Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>I want to drink <del>cola</del> <ins>wine</ins></p>
</body>
</html>
I want to drink cola wine
Deleted Text
Anything that appears within <del>...</del> element, is displayed as deleted
text.
Larger Text
The content of the <big>...</big> element is displayed one font size larger than
the rest of the text surrounding it as shown below:
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Larger Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <big>big</big> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result: This is word uses a big typeface.
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Smaller Text
The content of the <small>...</small> element is displayed one font size
smaller than the rest of the text surrounding it as shown below:
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Smaller Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <small>small</small> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
The following word uses a small typeface.
Grouping Content
The <div> and <span> elements allow you to group together several elements
to create sections or subsections of a page.
For example, you might want to put all of the footnotes on a page within a <div>
element to indicate that all of the elements within that <div> element relate to the
footnotes. You might then attach a style to this <div> element so that they appear
using a special set of style rules.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Div Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="menu" align="middle" >
<a href="/index.htm">HOME</a> |
<a href="/about/contact_us.htm">CONTACT</a> |
<a href="/about/index.htm">ABOUT</a>
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</div>
<div id="content" align="left" bgcolor="white">
<h5>Content Articles</h5>
<p>Actual content goes here.....</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
HOME | CONTACT | ABOUT
CONTENT ARTICLES
Actual content goes here.....
The <span> element, on the other hand, can be used to group inline elements
only. So, if you have a part of a sentence or paragraph which you want to group
together, you could use the <span> element as follows
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Span Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is the example of <span style="color:green">span tag</span> and the <span

style="color:red">div tag</span> alongwith CSS</p>
</body>
</html>
This is the example of span tag and the div tag alongwith CSS
These tags are commonly used with CSS to allow you to attach a style to a
section of a page.
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HTML Phrase Tags

The phrase tags have been designed for specific purposes, though they are
displayed in a similar way as other basic tags like <b>, <i>, <pre>, and <tt>, you
have seen in previous chapter. This chapter will take you through all the important
phrase tags, so let's start seeing them one by one.
Emphasized Text
Anything that appears within <em>...</em> element is displayed as emphasized
text.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Emphasized Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <em>emphasized</em> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result: The following word uses a emphasized typeface.
Marked Text
Anything that appears with-in <mark>...</mark> element, is displayed as
marked with yellow ink.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Marked Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word has been <mark>marked</mark> with yellow</p>
</body>
</html>

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The following word has been marked with yellow.
Strong Text
Anything that appears within <strong>...</strong> element is displayed as
important text.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Strong Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <strong>strong</strong> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
The following word uses a strong typeface.
Text Abbreviation
You can abbreviate a text by putting it inside opening <abbr>and
closing </abbr> tags. If present, the title attribute must contain this full
description and nothing else.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Abbreviation</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>My best friend's name is <abbr title="Abhishek">Abhy</abbr>.</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result: My best friend's name is Abhy.

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Acronym Element
The <acronym> element allows you to indicate that the text between
<acronym> and </acronym> tags is an acronym.
At present, the major browsers do not change the appearance of the

content of the <acronym> element.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Acronym Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This chapter covers marking up text in <acronym>XHTML</acronym>.</p>
</body>
</html>
This chapter covers marking up text in XHTML.
Text Direction
The <bdo>...</bdo> element stands for Bi-Directional Override and it is
used to override the current text direction.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Direction Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This text will go left to right.</p>
<p><bdo dir="rtl">This text will go right to left.</bdo></p>
</body>
</html>

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This text will go left to right.
This text will go right to left.
Special Terms
The <dfn>...</dfn> element (or HTML Definition Element) allows you to specify
that you are introducing a special term. It's usage is similar to italic words in the
midst of a paragraph.
Typically, you would use the <dfn> element the first time you introduce a key
term. Most recent browsers render the content of a <dfn> element in an italic
font.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Special Terms Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word is a <dfn>special</dfn> term.</p>
</body>
</html>
The following word is a special term.
Quoting Text
When you want to quote a passage from another source, you should put it in
between <blockquote>...</blockquote> tags.
Text inside a <blockquote> element is usually indented from the left and right
edges of the surrounding text, and sometimes uses an italicized font.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Blockquote Example</title>
</head>
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<body>
<p>The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C Web site:</p>
<blockquote>XHTML 1.0 is the W3C's first Recommendation for XHTML, following on from earlier
work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0.</blockquote>
</body>
</html>
The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C Web site:
XHTML 1.0 is the W3C's first Recommendation for XHTML, following on from earlier
work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0.
Short Quotations
The <q>...</q> element is used when you want to add a double quote
within a sentence.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Double Quote Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Amit is in Spain, <q>I think I am wrong</q>.</p>
</body>
</html>
Amit is in Spain, I think I am wrong.
Text Citations
If you are quoting a text, you can indicate the source placing it between an
opening <cite> tag and closing </cite> tag
As you would expect in a print publication, the content of the <cite>

element is rendered in italicized text by default.
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Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Citations Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This HTML tutorial is derived from <cite> Standard for HTML</cite>.</p>
</body>
</html>
This HTML tutorial is derived from Standard for HTML.
Computer Code
Any programming code to appear on a Web page should be placed
inside <code>...</code> tags. Usually the content of the <code> element is
presented in a monospaced font, just like the code in most programming books.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Computer Code Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Regular text. <code>This is code.</code> Regular text.</p>
</body>
</html>
Regular text. This is code. Regular text.
Keyboard Text
When you are talking about computers, if you want to tell a reader to enter some
text, you can use the <kbd>...</kbd>element to indicate what should be typed
in, as in this example.
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Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Keyboard Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Regular text. <kbd>This is inside kbd element</kbd> Regular text.</p>
</body>
</html>
Regular text. This is inside kbd element Regular text.
Programming Variables
This element is usually used in conjunction with the <pre> and<code> elements
to indicate that the content of that element is a variable.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Variable Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><code>document.write("<var>user-name</var>")</code></p>
</body>
</html>
document.write("user-name")
Program Output
The <samp>...</samp> element indicates sample output from a program, and
script etc. Again, it is mainly used when documenting programming or coding
concepts.
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Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Program Output Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Result produced by the program is <samp>Hello World!</samp></p>
</body>
</html>
Result produced by the program is Hello World!
Address Text
The <address>...</address> element is used to contain any address.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Address Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<address>388A, Road No 22, Jubilee Hills - Hyderabad</address>
</body>
</html>
388A, Road No 22, Jubilee Hills – Hyderabad

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HTML Meta Tags

HTML lets you specify metadata - additional important information about a
document in a variety of ways. The META elements can be used to include
name/value pairs describing properties of the HTML document, such as author,
expiry date, a list of keywords, document author etc.
The <meta> tag is used to provide such additional information. This tag is
an empty element and so does not have a closing tag but it carries
information within its attributes.
You can include one or more meta tags in your document based on what
information you want to keep in your document but in general, meta tags
do not impact physical appearance of the document so from appearance
point of view, it does not matter if you include them or not.
Adding Meta Tags to Your Documents

You can add metadata to your web pages by placing <meta> tags inside
the header of the document which is represented
by<head> and </head> tags. A meta tag can have following attributes in
addition to core attributes:
Attribute Description
Name Name for the property. Can be anything. Examples

include, keywords, description, author, revised,
generator etc.
content Specifies the property's value.
scheme Specifies a scheme to interpret the property's value (as

declared in the content attribute).
http- Used for http response message headers. For example

equiv http-equiv can be used to refresh the page or to set a
cookie. Values include content-type, expires, refresh
and set-cookie.
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Specifying Keywords
You can use <meta> tag to specify important keywords related to the
document and later these keywords are used by the search engines while
indexing your webpage for searching purpose.
Example
Following is an example where we are adding HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata
as important keywords about the document.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello HTML5!
Document Description
You can use <meta> tag to give a short description about the document.
This again can be used by various search engines while indexing your
webpage for searching purpose.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Learning about Meta Tags." />
</head>
<body>
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<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Document Revision Date

You can use <meta> tag to give information about when last time the
document was updated. This information can be used by various web
browsers while refreshing your webpage.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="revised" content="inspire, 3/7/2014" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Document Refreshing
A <meta> tag can be used to specify a duration after which your web page
will keep refreshing automatically.
Example
If you want your page keep refreshing after every 5 seconds then use the
following syntax.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="revised" content="Inspire, 3/7/2014" />

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Page Redirection
You can use <meta> tag to redirect your page to any other webpage. You
can also specify a duration if you want to redirect the page after a certain
number of seconds.
Example
Following is an example of redirecting current page to another page after 5
seconds. If you want to redirect page immediately then do not
specify content attribute.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="revised" content="Inspire, 3/7/2014" />
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=http://www.inspire.com" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Setting Cookies
Cookies are data, stored in small text files on your computer and it is
exchanged between web browser and web server to keep track of various
infromation based on your web application need.
You can use <meta> tag to store cookies on client side and later this
information can be used by the Web Server to track a site visitor.
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Example
Following is an example of redirecting current page to another page after 5
seconds. If you want to redirect page immediately then do not
specify content attribute.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="revised" content="Tutorialspoint, 3/7/2014" />
<meta http-equiv="cookie" content="userid=xyz; expires=Wednesday, 08-Aug-15 23:59:59 GMT;" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
If you do not include the expiration date and time, the cookie is considered
a session cookie and will be deleted when the user exits the browser.
Note: You can check PHP and Cookies tutorial for a complete detail on
Cookies.
Setting Author Name

You can set an author name in a web page using meta tag. See an example
below:
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="author" content="Mahnaz Mohtashim" />
</head>
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<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Specify Character Set

You can use <meta> tag to specify character set used within the webpage.
Example
By default, Web servers and Web browsers use ISO-8859-1 (Latin1)
encoding to process Web pages. Following is an example to set UTF-8
encoding:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
To serve the static page with traditional Chinese characters, the webpage
must contain a <meta> tag to set Big5 encoding:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Big5" />

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</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML Comments
Comment is a piece of code which is ignored by any web browser. It is a

good practice to add comments into your HTML code, especially in complex
documents, to indicate sections of a document, and any other notes to
anyone looking at the code. Comments help you and others understand your
code and increases code readability.
HTML comments are placed in between  tags. So any content
placed with-in  tags will be treated as comment and will be
completely ignored by the browser.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head> 
<title>This is document title</title>
</head> 
<body>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result without displaying the content given as a
part of comments:
Document content goes here.....
Valid vs Invalid Comments

Comments do not nest which means a comment cannot be put inside
another comment. Second the double-dash sequence "--" may not appear
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inside a comment except as part of the closing --> tag. You must also make
sure that there are no spaces in the start-of-comment string.
Example
Here given comment is a valid comment and will be wiped off by the
browser.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Valid Comment Example</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
But following line is not a valid comment and will be displayed by the
browser. This is because there is a space between the left angle bracket
and the exclamation mark.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Invalid Comment Example</title>
</head>
<body>
< !-- This is not a valid comment -->
</body>
</html>
< !-- This is not a valid comment -->

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Multiline Comments
So far we have seen single line comments, but HTML supports multi-line
comments as well.
You can comment multiple lines by the special beginning tag  placed before the first line and end of the last line as shown
in the given example below.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>Multiline Comments</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
Conditional Comments
Conditional comments only work in Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows but
they are ignored by other browsers. They are supported from Explorer 5
onwards, and you can use them to give conditional instructions to different
versions of IE.
<head>
<title>Conditional Comments</title>

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</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
You will come across a situation where you will need to apply a different
style sheet based on different versions of Internet Explorer, in such
situation conditional comments will be helpful.
Using Comment Tag

There are few browsers that support <comment> tag to comment a part of
HTML code.
Example
<head>
<title>Using Comment Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is <comment>not</comment> Internet Explorer.</p>
</body>
</html>
If you are using IE then it will produce following result:
This is Internet Explorer.
But if you are not using IE, then it will produce following result:
This is Internet Explorer.
Commenting Script Code

Though you will learn Javascript with HTML, in a separate tutorial, but here
you must make a note that if you are using Java Script or VB Script in your
HTML code then it is recommended to put that script code inside proper
HTML comments so that old browsers can work properly.
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Example
<head>
<title>Commenting Script Code</title>
<script>

</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello , World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello World!
Hello , World!
Commenting Style Sheets

Though you will learn using style sheets with HTML in a separate tutorial,
but here you must make a note that if you are using Casecading Style
Sheet (CSS) in your HTML code then it is recommended to put that style
sheet code inside proper HTML comments so that old browsers can work
properly.
<head>
<title>Commenting Style Sheets</title>
<style>

</style>
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</head>
<body>
<div class="example">Hello , World!</div>
</body>
</html>
Hello , World!
Images are very important to beautify as well as to depict many complex

concepts in simple way on your web page. This tutorial will take you
through simple steps to use images in your web pages.
Insert Image
You can insert any image in your web page by using <img> tag. Following
is the simple syntax to use this tag.
<img src="Image URL" ... attributes-list/>
The <img> tag is an empty tag, which means that it can contain only list of
attributes and it has no closing tag.
Example
To try following example, let's keep our HTML file test.htm and image file
test.png in the same directory:
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Image in Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Simple Image Insert</p>
<img src="/html/images/sun.jpg" alt="Test Image" />
</body>
</html>
Image name is always case sensitive.

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The alt attribute is a mandatory attribute which specifies an alternate text

for an image, if the image cannot be displayed.
Set Image Location

Usually we keep our all the images in a separate directory. So let's keep
HTML file test.htm in our home directory and create a
subdirectory images inside the home directory where we will keep our
image test.png.
Example
Assuming our image location is "/html/image/test.png", try the following
example:
<img src="/html/images/test.png" alt="Test Image" />
Set Image Width/Height

You can set image width and height based on your requirement
using width and height attributes. You can specify width and height of the
image in terms of either pixels or percentage of its actual size.
Example
<img src="/html/images/test.png" alt="Test Image" width="150" height="100"/>
Set Image Border

By default image will have a border around it, you can specify border
thickness in terms of pixels using border attribute. A thickness of 0 means,
no border around the picture.
<img src="/html/images/test.png" alt="Test Image" border="3"/>
Set Image Alignment

By default image will align at the left side of the page, but you can
use align attribute to set it in the center or right.
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Example
<img src="/html/images/test.png" alt="Test Image" border="3" align="right"/>
This will produce following result
The HTML tables allow web authors to arrange data like text, images, links,
other tables, etc. into rows and columns of cells.
The HTML tables are created using the <table> tag in which the<tr> tag is
used to create table rows and <td> tag is used to create data cells.
Here border is an attribute of <table> tag and it is used to put a border

across all the cells. If you do not need a border then you can use
border="0".
Table Heading
Table heading can be defined using <th> tag. This tag will be put to
replace <td> tag, which is used to represent actual data cell. Normally you
will put your top row as table heading as shown below, otherwise you can
use <th> element in any row.
Example
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Header</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
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</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Cellpadding and Cellspacing Attributes

There are two attribiutes called cellpadding and cellspacing which you will
use to adjust the white space in your table cells. The cellspacing attribute
defines the width of the border, while cellpadding represents the distance
between cell borders and the content within a cell.
Colspan and Rowspan Attributes

You will use colspan attribute if you want to merge two or more columns
into a single column. Similar way you will use rowspan if you want to
merge two or more rows.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Colspan/Rowspan</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2">Row 1 Cell 1</td><td>Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Cell 2</td><td>Row 2 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3">Row 3 Cell 1</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Row 1 Cell 2 Row 1 Cell 3

Row 1 Cell 1
Row 2 Cell 2 Row 2 Cell 3
Row 3 Cell 1
Tables Backgrounds
You can set table background using one of the following two ways:
 bgcolor attribute - You can set background color for whole table or just for one
cell.
 background attribute - You can set background image for whole table or just
for one cell.
You can also set border color also using bordercolor attribute.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Background</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" bordercolor="green" bgcolor="yellow">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Here is an example of using background attribute. Here we will use an

image available in /images directory.
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Background</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" bordercolor="green" background="/images/test.png">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Table Height and Width

You can set a table width and height using width and heightattrubutes.
You can specify table width or height in terms of pixels or in terms of
percentage of available screen area.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Width/Height</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="400" height="150">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Row 1, Column 1 Row 1, Column 2
Row 2, Column 1 Row 2, Column 2
Table Caption
The caption tag will serve as a title or explanation for the table and it
shows up at the top of the table. This tag is deprecated in newer version of
HTML/XHTML.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Caption</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<caption>This is the caption</caption>
<tr>
<td>row 1, column 1</td><td>row 1, columnn 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, column 1</td><td>row 2, columnn 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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This is the caption
row 1, column 1 row 1, columnn 2
row 2, column 1 row 2, columnn 2
Table Header, Body, and Footer

Tables can be divided into three portions: a header, a body, and a foot. The
head and foot are rather similar to headers and footers in a word-processed
document that remain the same for every page, while the body is the main
content holder of the table.
The three elements for separating the head, body, and foot of a table are:
 <thead> - to create a separate table header.
 <tbody> - to indicate the main body of the table.
 <tfoot> - to create a separate table footer.
A table may contain several <tbody> elements to indicate

different pages or groups of data. But it is notable that <thead> and
<tfoot> tags should appear before <tbody>
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table</title>
</head>
<body>
<thead>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">This is the head of the table</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">This is the foot of the table</td>
</tr>
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</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 2</td>
<td>Cell 3</td>
<td>Cell 4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This is the head of the table
This is the foot of the table
Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3 Cell 4
Nested Tables
You can use one table inside another table. Not only tables you can use
almost all the tags inside table data tag <td>.
Example
Following is the example of using another table and other tags inside a
table cell.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table</title>
</head>
<body>
<tr>
<td>

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<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Name Salary
Ramesh Raman 5000
Shabbir Hussein 7000

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Chapter - HTML Lists

HTML offers web authors three ways for specifying lists of information. All lists must
contain one or more list elements. Lists may contain:
 <ul> - An unordered list. This will list items using plain bullets.
 <ol> - An ordered list. This will use different schemes of numbers to list
your items.
 <dl> - A definition list. This arranges your items in the same way as they
are arranged in a dictionary.
HTML Unordered Lists
An unordered list is a collection of related items that have no special order or
sequence. This list is created by using HTML <ul>tag. Each item in the list is
marked with a bullet.
Example
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>LCD TV</li>
<li>Washing Machine</li>
<li>Music System</li>
<li>Water Purifier</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
The type Attribute

You can use type attribute for <ul> tag to specify the type of bullet you
like. By default it is a disc. Following are the possible options:
<ul type="square">
<ul type="disc">
<ul type="circle">
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HTML Ordered Lists

If you are required to put your items in a numbered list instead of bulleted then
HTML ordered list will be used. This list is created by using <ol> tag. The
numbering starts at one and is incremented by one for each successive ordered list
element tagged with <li>.
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
1. Beetroot
2. Ginger
3. Potato
4. Radish
The type Attribute

You can use type attribute for <ol> tag to specify the type of numbering you like.
By default it is a number. Following are the possible options:
<ol type="1"> - Default-Case Numerals.
<ol type="I"> - Upper-Case Numerals.
<ol type="i"> - Lower-Case Numerals.
<ol type="a"> - Lower-Case Letters.
<ol type="A"> - Upper-Case Letters.

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The start Attribute

You can use start attribute for <ol> tag to specify the starting point of numbering
you need. Following are the possible options:
<ol type="1" start="4"> - Numerals starts with 4.
<ol type="I" start="4"> - Numerals starts with IV.
<ol type="i" start="4"> - Numerals starts with iv.
<ol type="a" start="4"> - Letters starts with d.
<ol type="A" start="4"> - Letters starts with D.
HTML Definition Lists

HTML and XHTML support a list style which is called definition lists where entries
are listed like in a dictionary or encyclopedia. The definition list is the ideal way to
present a glossary, list of terms, or other name/value list.
Definition List makes use of following three tags.
 <dl> - Defines the start of the list

 <dt> - A term
 <dd> - Term definition
 </dl> - Defines the end of the list
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Definition List</title>
</head>
<body>
<dl>
<dt><b>HTML</b></dt>
<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language</dd>
<dt><b>HTTP</b></dt>
<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol</dd>
</dl>
</body>
</html>
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This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP
This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

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HTML Text Links

A webpage can contain various links that take you directly to other pages and even
specific parts of a given page. These links are known as hyperlinks.
Hyperlinks allow visitors to navigate between Web sites by clicking on words,

phrases, and images. Thus you can create hyperlinks using text or images
available on a webpage.
Linking Documents
A link is specified using HTML tag <a>. This tag is called anchor tag and anything
between the opening <a> tag and the closing </a> tag becomes part of the link
and a user can click that part to reach to the linked document. Following is the
simple syntax to use <a> tag.
<a href="Document URL" ... attributes-list>Link Text</a>
Example
Let's try following example which links http://www.inspireeducation.com at
your page:
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href="http://www.inspireglobaleducation.com" target="_self">Inspire Global Education</a>
</body>
</html>
The target Attribute
We have used target attribute in our previous example. This attribute is used to
specify the location where linked document is opened. Following are possible
options:
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Option Description
_blank Opens the linked document in a new window or tab.
_self Opens the linked document in the same frame.
_parent Opens the linked document in the parent frame.
_top Opens the linked document in the full body of the

window.
targetframe Opens the linked document in a named targetframe.
Use of Base Path

When you link HTML documents related to the same website, it is not required to
give a complete URL for every link. You can get rid of it if you use <base> tag in
your HTML document header. This tag is used to give a base path for all the links.
So your browser will concatenate given relative path to this base path and will
make a complete URL.
Following example makes use of <base> tag to specify base URL and later we can
use relative path to all the links instead of giving complete URL for every link.
<html>
<head>
<base href="http://www.inspireglobaleducation.com/">
</head>
<body>
<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_blank">Inspire Global Education</a>
</body>
</html>
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Linking to a Page Section

You can create a link to a particular section of a given webpage by
using name attribute. This is a two step process.
First create a link to the place where you want to reach with-in a webpage and
name it using <a...> tag as follows:
<h1>HTML Text Links <a name="top"></a></h1>
Second step is to create a hyperlink to link the document and place where
you want to reach:
<a href="/html/html_text_links.htm#top">Go to the Top</a>
Setting Link Colors

You can set colors of your links, active links and visited links using
link, alink and vlink attributes of <body> tag.
Save the following in test.htm and open it in any web browser to see
how link, alink and vlink attribute work.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<base href="http://www. inspireglobaleducation.com/">
</head>
<body alink="#54A250" link="#040404" vlink="#F40633">
<a href="/html/index.htm" target="_blank" >Education</a>
</body>
</html>
Download Links
You can create text link to make your PDF, or DOC or ZIP files downloadable. This
is very simple, you just need to give complete URL of the downloadable file as
follows:
<html>
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<head>
</head>
<a href="http://www. inspireglobaleducation.com/page.pdf">Download PDF File</a>
</body>
</html>
HTML Image Links

We have seen how to create hypertext link using text and we also learnt how to use
images in our webpages. Now we will learn how to use images to create hyperlinks.
It's simple to use an image as hyperlink. We just need to use an image inside
hyperlink at the place of text as shown below:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Image Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.timesofindia.com" target="_self">
<img src="/images/logo.png" alt="TOI" border="0"/>
</a>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result, where you can click on the images to reach to
the home page of Tutorials Point.
This was the simplest way of creating hyperlinks using images. Next we will see
how we can create Mouse-Sensitive Image Links.
HTML Email Links

Its not difficult to put an HTML email link on your webpage but it can cause
unnecessary spamming problem for your email account. There are people who can
run programs to harvest these types of emails and later use them for spamming in
various ways.
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You can have other options to facilitate people to send you emails. One
option could be to use HTML forms to collect user data and then use PHP or
CGI script to send an email.
HTML Email Tag

HTML <a> tag provides you option to specifiy an email address to send an
email. While using <a> tag as an email tag, you will usemailto:email
address along with href attribute. Following is the syntax of
using mailto instead of using http.
<a href= "mailto:[email protected]">Send Email</a>
This code will generate following link which you can use to send email.
Send Email
Now if a user clicks this link, it launches one Email Client ( like Lotus Notes,
Outlook Express etc. ) installed on your user's computer. There is another
risk to use this option to send email because if user do not have email client
installed on their computer then it would not be possible to send email.
Default Settings
You can specify a default email subject and email body alongwith your email
address. Following is the example to use default subject and body.
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Feedback&body=Message">
Send Feedback
</a>
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HTML Frames
HTML frames are used to divide your browser window into multiple sections
where each section can load a separate HTML document. A collection of
frames in the browser window is known as a frameset. The window is
divided into frames in a similar way the tables are organized: into rows and
columns.
Disadvantages of Frames
There are few drawbacks with using frames, so it's never recommended to
use frames in your webpages:
 Some smaller devices cannot cope with frames often because their screen is not
big enough to be divided up.
 Sometimes your page will be displayed differently on different computers due to

different screen resolution.
 The browser's back button might not work as the user hopes.
 There are still few browsers that do not support frame technology.
Creating Frames
To use frames on a page we use <frameset> tag instead of <body> tag.
The <frameset> tag defines how to divide the window into frames.
The rows attribute of <frameset> tag defines horizontal frames
and cols attribute defines vertical frames. Each frame is indicated by
<frame> tag and it defines which HTML document shall open into the
frame.
Example
Following is the example to create three horizontal frames:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Frames</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="10%,80%,10%">
<frame name="top" src="/html/top_frame.htm" />
<frame name="main" src="/html/main_frame.htm" />
<frame name="bottom" src="/html/bottom_frame.htm" />

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<noframes>
<body>
Your browser does not support frames.
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Example
Let's put above example as follows, here we replaced rows attribute by cols
and changed their width. This will create all the three frames vertically:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Frames</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="25%,50%,25%">
<frame name="left" src="/html/top_frame.htm" />
<frame name="center" src="/html/main_frame.htm" />
<frame name="right" src="/html/bottom_frame.htm" />
<noframes>
<body>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
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</html>
The <frameset> Tag Attributes

Following are important attributes of the <frameset> tag:
cols specifies how many columns are contained in the

frameset and the size of each column. You can
specify the width of each column in one of four
ways:
 Absolute values in pixels. For example to

create three vertical frames, usecols="100,
500,100".
 A percentage of the browser window. For

example to create three vertical frames,
use cols="10%, 80%,10%".
 Using a wildcard symbol. For example to

create three vertical frames, usecols="10%,
*,10%". In this case wildcard takes
remainder of the window.
 As relative widths of the browser window. For

example to create three vertical frames,
use cols="3*,2*,1*". This is an alternative
to percentages. You can use relative widths
of the browser window. Here the window is
divided into sixths: the first column takes up
half of the window, the second takes one
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third, and the third takes one sixth.
rows This attribute works just like the cols attribute and
takes the same values, but it is used to specify the
rows in the frameset. For example to create two
horizontal frames, use rows="10%, 90%". You can
specify the height of each row in the same way as
explained above for columns.
border This attribute specifies the width of the border of

each frame in pixels. For example border="5". A
value of zero means no border.
frameborder This attribute specifies whether a three-dimensional

border should be displayed between frames. This
attrubute takes value either 1 (yes) or 0 (no). For
example frameborder="0" specifies no border.
framespacing This attribute specifies the amount of space between

frames in a frameset. This can take any integer
value. For example framespacing="10" means there
should be 10 pixels spacing between each frames.
The <frame> Tag Attributes

Following are important attributes of <frame> tag:
src This attribute is used to give the file name that

should be loaded in the frame. Its value can be any
URL. For example, src="/html/top_frame.htm" will
load an HTML file available in html directory.
name This attribute allows you to give a name to a frame.

It is used to indicate which frame a document should
be loaded into. This is especially important when you
want to create links in one frame that load pages
into an another frame, in which case the second
frame needs a name to identify itself as the target of
the link.
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frameborder This attribute specifies whether or not the borders of

that frame are shown; it overrides the value given in
the frameborder attribute on the <frameset> tag if
one is given, and this can take values either 1 (yes)
or 0 (no).
marginwidth This attribute allows you to specify the width of the

space between the left and right of the frame's
borders and the frame's content. The value is given
in pixels. For example marginwidth="10".
marginheight This attribute allows you to specify the height of the

space between the top and bottom of the frame's
borders and its contents. The value is given in
pixels. For example marginheight="10".
noresize By default you can resize any frame by clicking and

dragging on the borders of a frame. The noresize
attribute prevents a user from being able to resize
the frame. For example noresize="noresize".
scrolling This attribute controls the appearance of the

scrollbars that appear on the frame. This takes
values either "yes", "no" or "auto". For example
scrolling="no" means it should not have scroll bars.
longdesc This attribute allows you to provide a link to another

page containing a long description of the contents of
the frame. For example
longdesc="framedescription.htm"
Browser Support for Frames

If a user is using any old browser or any browser which does not support
frames then <noframes> element should be displayed to the user.
So you must place a <body> element inside the <noframes> element

because the <frameset> element is supposed to replace the <body>
element, but if a browser does not understand <frameset> element then it
should understand what is inside the <body> element which is contained in
a <noframes> element.
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You can put some nice message for your user having old browsers. For
example Sorry!! your browser does not support frames. as shown in the
above example.
Frame's name and target attributes

One of the most popular uses of frames is to place navigation bars in one
frame and then load main pages into a separate frame.
Let's see following example where a test.htm file has following code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Target Frames</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="200, *">
<frame src="/html/menu.htm" name="menu_page" />
<frame src="/html/main.htm" name="main_page" />
<noframes>
<body>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Here we have created two columns to fill with two frames. The first frame is
200 pixels wide and will contain the navigation menubar implemented
by menu.htm file. The second column fills in remaining space and will
contain the main part of the page and it is implemented by main.htm file.
For all the three links available in menubar, we have mentioned target
frame asmain_page, so whenever you click any of the links in menubar,
available link will open in main_page.
Following is the content of menu.htm file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body bgcolor="#4a7d49">
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<a href="http://www.google.com" target="main_page">Google</a>
<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com" target="main_page">Microsoft</a>
<br /><br />
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk" target="main_page">BBC News</a>
</body>
</html>
Following is the content of main.htm file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body bgcolor="#b5dcb3">
<h3>This is main page and content from any link will be displayed here.</h3>
<p>So now click any link and see the result.</p>
</body>
</html>
When we load test.htm file, it produces following result:
Now you can try to click links available in the left panel and see the result.
The target attribute can also take one of the following values:
Option Description
_self Loads the page into the current frame.
_blank Loads a page into a new browser window.opening a

new window.
_parent Loads the page into the parent window, which in the
case of a single frameset is the main browser window.
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_top Loads the page into the browser window, replacing

any current frames.
targetframe Loads the page into a named targetframe.
HTML Blocks
All the HTML elements can be categorized into two categories (a)Block
Level Elements (b) Inline Elements
Block Elements
Block elements appear on the screen as if they have a line break before and
after them. For example the <p>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>,
<h6>, <ul>, <ol>, <dl>, <pre>, <hr />, <blockquote>, and <address>
elements are all block level elements. They all start on their own new line,
and anything that follows them appears on its own new line.
Inline Elements
Inline elements, on the other hand, can appear within sentences and do not
have to appear on a new line of their own. The <b>, <i>, <u>, <em>,
<strong>, <sup>, <sub>, <big>, <small>, <li>, <ins>, <del>, <code>,
<cite>, <dfn>, <kbd>, and <var> elements are all inline elements.
Grouping HTML Elements

There are two important tags which we use very frequently to group various
other HTML tags (i) <div> tag and (ii) <span> tag
The <div> tag

This is the very important block level tag which plays a big role in grouping
various other HTML tags and applying CSS on group of elements. Even now
<div> tag can be used to create webpage layout where we define different
parts ( Left, Right, Top etc) of the page using <div> tag. This tag does not
provide any visual change on the block but this has more meaning when it
is used with CSS.
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Example
Following is a simple example of <div> tag. We will learn Cascading Style
Sheet (CSS) in a separate chapter but we used it here to show the usage of
<div> tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML div Tag</title>
</head>
<body>

<div style="color:red">
<h4>This is first group</h4>
<p>Following is a list of vegetables</p>
<ul>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</div>

<div style="color:green">
<h4>This is second group</h4>
<p>Following is a list of fruits</p>
<ul>
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Banana</li>
<li>Mango</li>
<li>Strawberry</li>
</ul>
</div>
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</body>
</html>
THIS IS FIRST GROUP

Following is a list of vegetables
 Beetroot
 Ginger
 Potato
 Radish
THIS IS SECOND GROUP

Following is a list of fruits
 Apple
 Banana
 Mango
 Strawberry
The <span> tag

The HTML <span> is an inline element and it can be used to group inline-
elements in an HTML document. This tag also does not provide any visual
change on the block but has more meaning when it is used with CSS.
The difference between the <span> tag and the <div> tag is that the
<span> tag is used with inline elements where as the <div> tag is used
with block-level elements.
Example
Following is a simple example of <span> tag. We will learn Cascading Style
Sheet (CSS) in a separate chapter but we used it here to show the usage of
<span> tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML span Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
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<p>This is <span style="color:red">red</span> and this is <span

style="color:green">green</span></p>
</body>
</html>
This is red, and this is green
HTML Backgrounds
By default, your webpage background is white in color. You may not like it,
but no worries. HTML provides you following two good ways to decorate
your webpage background.
 Html Background with Colors
 Html Background with Images
Now let's see both the approaches one by one using appropriate examples.
Html Background with Colors

The bgcolor attribute is used to control the background of an HTML
element, specifically page body and table backgrounds. Following is the
syntax to use bgcolor attribute with any HTML tag.
<tagname bgcolor="color_value"...>
This color_value can be given in any of the following formats:

<table bgcolor="lime" >

<table bgcolor="#f1f1f1" >

<table bgcolor="rgb(0,0,120)" >
Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Colors</title>
</head>
<body>

<table bgcolor="yellow" width="100%">
<tr><td>
This background is yellow
</td></tr>
</table>

<table bgcolor="#6666FF" width="100%">
<tr><td>
This background is sky blue
</td></tr>
</table>

<table bgcolor="rgb(255,0,255)" width="100%">
<tr><td>
This background is green
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This background is yellow
This background is sky blue
This background is green

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Html Background with Images

The background attribute can also be used to control the background of an
HTML elmement, specifically page body and table backgrounds. You can
specify an image to set background of your HTML page or table. Following is
the syntax to use background attribute with any HTML tag.
Note: The background attribute is deprecated and it is recommended to use Style

Sheet for background setting.
<tagname background="Image URL"...>
The most frequently used image formats are JPEG, GIF and PNG images.
Example
Here are the examples to set background images of a table.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Images</title>
</head>
<body>

<table background="/images/html.gif" width="100%" height="100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with HTML image.
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This background is filled up with HTML image.

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Patterned & Transparent Backgrounds

You might have seen many pattern or transparent backgrounds on various
websites. This simply can be achieved by using patterned image or
transparent image in the background.
It is suggested that while creating patterns or transparent GIF or PNG

images, use the smallest dimensions possible even as small as 1x1 to avoid
slow loading.
Example
Here are the examples to set background pattern of a table:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Images</title>
</head>
<body>

<table background="/images/pattern1.gif" width="100%" height="100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
</td></tr>
</table>

<table background="/images/pattern2.gif" width="100%" height="100">
<tr><td>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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HTML Colors
Colors are very important to give a good look and feel to your website. You
can specify colors on page level using <body> tag or you can set colors for
individual tags using bgcolor attribute.
The <body> tag has following attributes which can be used to set different
colors:
 bgcolor - sets a color for the background of the page.
 text - sets a color for the body text.
 alink - sets a color for active links or selected links.
 link - sets a color for linked text.
 vlink - sets a color for visited links - that is, for linked text that you have
already clicked on.
HTML Color Coding Methods

There are following three different methods to set colors in your web page:
 Color names - You can specify color names directly like green, blue or red.
 Hex codes - A six-digit code representing the amount of red, green, and blue
that makes up the color.
 Color decimal or percentage values - This value is specified using the rgb( )
property.
Now we will see these coloring schemes one by one.
HTML Colors - Color Names

You can sepecify direct a color name to set text or background color. W3C
has listed 16 basic color names that will validate with an HTML validator but
there are over 200 different color names supported by major browsers.
Note: Check a complete list of HTML Color Name.

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Standard 16 Colors
Here is the list of W3C Standard 16 Colors names and it is recommended to
use them.
Black Gray Silver White
Yellow Lime Aqua Fuchsia
Red Green Blue Purple
Maroon Olive Navy Teal
EXAMPLE
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color name:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by Name</title>
</head>
<body text="blue" bgcolor="green">
<p>Use different color names for for body and table and see the result.</p>
<table bgcolor="black">
<tr>
<td>
<font color="white">This text will appear white on black background.</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
HTML Colors - Hex Codes

A hexadecimal is a 6 digit representation of a color. The first two digits(RR)
represent a red value, the next two are a green value(GG), and the last are
the blue value(BB).
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A hexadecimal value can be taken from any graphics software like Adobe
Photoshop, Paintshop Pro or MS Paint.
Each hexadecimal code will be preceded by a pound or hash sign #.

Following is a list of few colors using hexadecimal notation.
Color Color HEX
#000000
#FF0000
#00FF00
#0000FF
#FFFF00
#00FFFF
#FF00FF
#C0C0C0
#FFFFFF
EXAMPLE
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color code in
hexadecimal:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by Hex</title>
</head>
<body text="#0000FF" bgcolor="#00FF00">
<p>Use different color hexa for for body and table and see the result.</p>
<table bgcolor="#000000">
<tr>
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<td>
<font color="#FFFFFF">This text will appear white on black background.</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
HTML Colors - RGB Values

This color value is specified using the rgb( ) property. This property takes
three values, one each for red, green, and blue. The value can be an
integer between 0 and 255 or a percentage.
Note: All the browsers does not support rgb() property of color so it is recommended
not to use it.
Following is a list to show few colors using RGB values.
Color Color RGB
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(255,0,0)
rgb(0,255,0)
rgb(0,0,255)
rgb(255,255,0)
rgb(0,255,255)
rgb(255,0,255)
rgb(192,192,192)
rgb(255,255,255)
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EXAMPLE
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color code
using rgb() values:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by RGB code</title>
</head>
<body text="rgb(0,0,255)" bgcolor="rgb(0,255,0)">
<p>Use different color code for for body and table and see the result.</p>
<table bgcolor="rgb(0,0,0)">
<tr>
<td>
<font color="rgb(255,255,255)">This text will appear white on black background.</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Browser Safe Colors

Here is the list of 216 colors which are supposed to be safest and computer
independent colors. These colors very from hexa code 000000 to FFFFFF
and they will be supported by all the computers having 256 color palette.
000000 000033 000066 000099 0000CC 0000FF
003300 003333 003366 003399 0033CC 0033FF
006600 006633 006666 006699 0066CC 0066FF
009900 009933 009966 009999 0099CC 0099FF
00CC00 00CC33 00CC66 00CC99 00CCCC 00CCFF
00FF00 00FF33 00FF66 00FF99 00FFCC 00FFFF

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330000 330033 330066 330099 3300CC 3300FF
333300 333333 333366 333399 3333CC 3333FF
336600 336633 336666 336699 3366CC 3366FF
339900 339933 339966 339999 3399CC 3399FF
660000 660033 660066 660099 6600CC 6600FF
663300 663333 663366 663399 6633CC 6633FF
666600 666633 666666 666699 6666CC 6666FF
669900 669933 669966 669999 6699CC 6699FF
990000 990033 990066 990099 9900CC 9900FF
993300 993333 993366 993399 9933CC 9933FF
996600 996633 996666 996699 9966CC 9966FF
999900 999933 999966 999999 9999CC 9999FF
CC0000 CC0033 CC0066 CC0099 CC00CC CC00FF

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CCCC00 CCCC33 CCCC66 CCCC99 CCCCCC CCCCFF
CCFF00 CCFF33 CCFF66 CCFF99 CCFFCC CCFFFF
FF0000 FF0033 FF0066 FF0099 FF00CC FF00FF
FFCC00 FFCC33 FFCC66 FFCC99 FFCCCC FFCCFF
FFFF00 FFFF33 FFFF66 FFFF99 FFFFCC FFFFFF

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HTML Fonts
Fonts play very important role in making a website more user friendly and
increasing content readability. Font face and color depends entirely on the
computer and browser that is being used to view your page but you can use
HTML <font> tag to add style, size, and color to the text on your website.
You can use a<basefont> tag to set all of your text to the same size, face,
and color.
The font tag is having three attributes called size, color, andface to
customize your fonts. To change any of the font attributes at any time
within your webpage, simply use the <font> tag. The text that follows will
remain changed until you close with the </font> tag. You can change one
or all of the font attributes within one <font> tag.
Note: The font and basefont tags are deprecated and it is supposed to be removed in a
future version of HTML. So they should not be used rather, it's suggested to use CSS
styles to manipulate your fonts. But still for learning purpose, this chapter will explain
font and basefont tags in detail.
Set Font Size

You can set content font size using size attribute. The range of accepted
values is from 1(smallest) to 7(largest). The default size of a font is 3.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Setting Font Size</title>
</head>
<body>
<font size="1">Font size="1"</font><br />
<font size="7">Font size="7"</font>
</body>
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</html>
Font size="1"
Font size="2"
Font size="3"
Font size="4"
Font size="5"
Font size="6"
Font size="7"
Relative Font Size
You can specify how many sizes larger or how many sizes smaller than the
preset font size should be. You can specify it like <font size="+n"> or
<font size="-n">
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Relative Font Size</title>
</head>
<body>
<font size="-1">Font size="-1"</font><br />
<font size="+1">Font size="+1"</font><br />
<font size="+4">Font size="+4"</font>
</body>
</html>
Font size="-1"
Font size="+1"
Font size="+2"
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Font size="+3"
Font size="+4"
Setting Font Face
You can set font face using face attribute but be aware that if the user
viewing the page doesn't have the font installed, they will not be able to see
it. Instead user will see the default font face applicable to the user's
computer.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Font Face</title>
</head>
<body>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="5">Times New Roman</font><br />
<font face="Verdana" size="5">Verdana</font><br />
<font face="Comic sans MS" size="5">Comic Sans MS</font><br />
<font face="WildWest" size="5">WildWest</font><br />
<font face="Bedrock" size="5">Bedrock</font><br />
</body>
</html>
Times New Roman

Verdana
Comic Sans MS
WildWest
Bedrock
Specify alternate font faces
A visitor will only be able to see your font if they have that font installed on
their computer. So, it is possible to specify two or more font face
alternatives by listing the font face names, separated by a comma.
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<font face="arial,helvetica">
<font face="Lucida Calligraphy,Comic Sans MS,Lucida Console">
When your page is loaded, their browser will display the first font face
available. If none of the given fonts are installed, then it will display the
default font face Times New Roman.
Note: Check a complete list of HTML Standard Fonts.
Setting Font Color

You can set any font color you like using color attribute. You can specify the
color that you want by either the color name or hexadecimal code for that
color.
Note: You can check a complete list of HTML Color Name with Codes.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Setting Font Color</title>
</head>
<body>
<font color="#FF00FF">This text is in pink</font><br />
<font color="red">This text is red</font>
</body>
</html>
This text is in pink

This text is red
The <basefont> Element:

The <basefont> element is supposed to set a default font size, color, and
typeface for any parts of the document that are not otherwise contained
within a <font> tag. You can use the <font> elements to override the
<basefont> settings.
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The <basefont> tag also takes color, size and face attributes and it will
support relative font setting by giving size a value of +1 for a size larger or
-2 for two sizes smaller.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Setting Basefont Color</title>
</head>
<body>
<basefont face="arial, verdana, sans-serif" size="2" color="#ff0000">
<p>This is the page's default font.</p>
<h2>Example of the <basefont> Element</h2>
<p><font size="+2" color="darkgray">
This is darkgray text with two sizes larger
</font></p>
<p><font face="courier" size="-1" color="#000000">
It is a courier font, a size smaller and black in color.
</font></p>
</body>
</html>
This is the page's default font.
Example of the <basefont> Element

This is darkgray text with two sizes larger
It is a courier font, a size smaller and black in color.

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HTML Forms
HTML Forms are required when you want to collect some data from the site
visitor. For example during user registration you would like to collect
information such as name, email address, credit card, etc.
A form will take input from the site visitor and then will post it to a back-
end application such as CGI, ASP Script or PHP script etc. The back-end
application will perform required processing on the passed data based on
defined business logic inside the application.
There are various form elements available like text fields, textarea fields,
drop-down menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.
The HTML <form> tag is used to create an HTML form and it has following
syntax:
<form action="Script URL" method="GET|POST">
form elements like input, textarea etc.
</form>
Form Attributes
Apart from common attributes, following is a list of the most frequently
used form attributes:
action Backend script ready to process your passed data.
method Method to be used to upload data. The most frequently

used are GET and POST methods.
target Specify the target window or frame where the result of

the script will be displayed. It takes values like _blank,
_self, _parent etc.
enctype
You can use the enctype attribute to specify how the
browser encodes the data before it sends it to the
HTML
server. Possible values are:
 application/x-www-form-urlencoded - This
is the standard method most forms use in
simple scenarios.
 mutlipart/form-data - This is used when you

want to upload binary data in the form of files
like image, word file etc.
Note: You can refer to Perl & CGI for a detail on how form data upload
works.
HTML Form Controls

There are different types of form controls that you can use to collect data
using HTML form:
 Text Input Controls
 Checkboxes Controls
 Radio Box Controls
 Select Box Controls
 File Select boxes
 Hidden Controls
 Clickable Buttons
 Submit and Reset Button
Text Input Controls

There are three types of text input used on forms:
 Single-line text input controls - This control is used for items that require
only one line of user input, such as search boxes or names. They are created
using HTML<input> tag.
 Password input controls - This is also a single-line text input but it masks the
character as soon as a user enters it. They are also created using HTMl <input>
tag.
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 Multi-line text input controls - This is used when the user is required to give
details that may be longer than a single sentence. Multi-line input controls are
created using HTML <textarea> tag.
Single-line text input controls

This control is used for items that require only one line of user input, such
as search boxes or names. They are created using HTML <input> tag.
Example
Here is a basic example of a single-line text input used to take first name
and last name:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Input Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form >
First name: <input type="text" name="first_name" />
<br>
Last name: <input type="text" name="last_name" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
First name:
Last name:
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <input> tag for creating text field.
type Indicates the type of input control and for text input
control it will be set to text.
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name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the

server to be recognized and get the value.
value This can be used to provide an initial value inside the

control.
size Allows to specify the width of the text-input control in

terms of characters.
maxlength Allows to specify the maximum number of characters a

user can enter into the text box.
Password input controls

This is also a single-line text input but it masks the character as soon as a
user enters it. They are also created using HTML <input> tag but type
attribute is set to password.
Example
Here is a basic example of a single-line password input used to take user
password:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Password Input Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form >
User ID : <input type="text" name="user_id" />
<br>
Password: <input type="password" name="password" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

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User ID :
Password:
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <input> tag for creating password field.
type Indicates the type of input control and for password

input control it will be set to password.

value This can be used to provide an initial value inside the

control.
size Allows to specify the width of the text-input control in

terms of characters.
maxlength Allows to specify the maximum number of characters a

user can enter into the text box.
Multiple-Line Text Input Controls

This is used when the user is required to give details that may be longer
than a single sentence. Multi-line input controls are created using HTML
<textarea> tag.
Here is a basic example of a multi-line text input used to take item

description:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Multiple-Line Input Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
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Description : <br />
<textarea rows="5" cols="10" name="description">
Enter description here...
</textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Description :
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <textarea> tag.

rows Indicates the number of rows of text area box.
cols Indicates the number of columns of text area box
Checkbox Control
Checkboxes are used when more than one option is required to be selected.
They are also created using HTML <input> tag but type attribute is set
to checkbox.
Example
Here is an example HTML code for a form with two checkboxes:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
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<head>
<title>Checkbox Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="checkbox" name="maths" value="on"> Maths
<input type="checkbox" name="physics" value="on"> Physics
</form>
</body>
</html>
Maths Physics
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <checkbox> tag.
type Indicates the type of input control and for checkbox

input control it will be set to checkbox.

value The value that will be used if the checkbox is selected.
checked Set to checked if you want to select it by default.
Radio Button Control

Radio buttons are used when out of many options, just one option is
required to be selected. They are also created using HTML <input> tag but
type attribute is set to radio.
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with two radio buttons:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Radio Box Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="radio" name="subject" value="maths"> Maths
<input type="radio" name="subject" value="physics"> Physics
</form>
</body>
</html>
Maths Physics
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for radio button.
type Indicates the type of input control and for checkbox

input control it will be set to radio.

value The value that will be used if the radio box is selected.
checked Set to checked if you want to select it by default.
Select Box Control

A select box, also called drop down box which provides option to list down
various options in the form of drop down list, from where a user can select
one or more options.
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Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with one drop down box
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Select Box Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<select name="dropdown">
<option value="Maths" selected>Maths</option>
<option value="Physics">Physics</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Maths
Attributes
Following is the list of important attributes of <select> tag:

size This can be used to present a scrolling list box.
multiple If set to "multiple" then allows a user to select multiple

items from the menu.
Following is the list of important attributes of <option> tag:

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value The value that will be used if an option in the select box
box is selected.
selected Specifies that this option should be the initially selected

value when the page loads.
label An alternative way of labeling options
File Upload Box

If you want to allow a user to upload a file to your web site, you will need to
use a file upload box, also known as a file select box. This is also created
using the <input> element but type attribute is set to file.
Here is example HTML code for a form with one file upload box:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>File Upload Box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="file" name="fileupload" accept="image/*" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Attributes
Following is the list of important attributes of file upload box:
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accept Specifies the types of files that the server accepts.
Button Controls
There are various ways in HTML to create clickable buttons. You can also
create a clickable button using <input> tag by setting its type attribute
to button. The type attribute can take the following values:
Type Description
submit This creates a button that automatically submits a form.
reset This creates a button that automatically resets form

controls to their initial values.
button This creates a button that is used to trigger a client-side

script when the user clicks that button.
image This creates a clickable button but we can use an image as

background of the button.
Here is example HTML code for a form with three types of buttons:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" />
<input type="button" name="ok" value="OK" />
<input type="image" name="imagebutton" src="/html/images/logo.png" />

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</form>
</body>
</html>
Submit Reset
Hidden Form Controls

Hidden form controls are used to hide data inside the page which later on
can be pushed to the server. This control hides inside the code and does not
appear on the actual page. For example, following hidden form is being
used to keep current page number. When a user will click next page then
the value of hidden control will be sent to the web server and there it will
decide which page has be displayed next based on the passed current page.
Here is example HTML code to show the usage of hidden control:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<p>This is page 10</p>
<input type="hidden" name="pagename" value="10" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
This is page 10
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HTML Embed Multimedia

Sometimes you need to add music or video into your web page. The easiest
way to add video or sound to your web site is to include the special HTML
tag called <embed>. This tag causes the browser itself to include controls
for the multimedia automatically provided browser supports <embed> tag
and given media type.
You can also include a <noembed> tag for the browsers which don't
recognize the <embed> tag. You could, for example, use <embed> to
display a movie of your choice, and <noembed> to display a single JPG
image if browser does not support <embed> tag.
Here is a simple example to play an embedded midi file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML embed Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<embed src="/html/yourfile.mid" width="100%" height="60" >
<noembed><img src="yourimage.gif" alt="Alternative Media" ></noembed>
</embed>
</body>
</html>
You can put any media file in src attribute. You can try it yourself by giving
various types of files.
The <embed> Tag Attributes

Following is the list of important attributes which can be used with
<embed> tag.
align Determines how to align the object. It can be set to

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either center, left or right.
autostart This boolean attribute indicates if the media should

start automatically. You can set it either true or false.
loop Specifies if the sound should be played continuously

(set loop to true), a certain number of times (a positive
value) or not at all (false)
playcount Specifies the number of times to play the sound. This is

alternate option for loop if you are usiong IE.
hidden Specifies if the multimedia object should be shown on

the page. A false value means no and true values
means yes.
width Width of the object in pixels
height Height of the object in pixels
name A name used to reference the object.
src URL of the object to be embedded.
volume Controls volume of the sound. Can be from 0 (off) to

100 (full volume).
Supported Video Types

You can use various media types like Flash movies (.swf), AVI's (.avi), and
MOV's (.mov) file types inside embed tag.
 .swf files - are the file types created by Macromedia's Flash program.
 .wmv files - are Microsoft's Window's Media Video file types.
 .mov files - are Apple's Quick Time Movie format.
 .mpeg files - are movie files created by the Moving Pictures Expert Group.
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<embed src="/html/yourfile.swf" width="200" height="200" >
<noembed><img src="yourimage.gif" alt="Alternative Media" ></noembed>
</embed>
</body>
</html>
Background Audio
You can use HTML <bgsound> tag to play a soundtrack in the background
of your webpage. This tag is supported by Internet Explorer only and most
of the other browsers ignore this tag. It downloads and plays an audio file
when the host document is first downloaded by the user and displayed. The
background sound file also will replay whenever the user refreshes the
browser.
This tag is having only two attributes loop and src. Both these attributes
have same meaning as explained above.
Here is a simple example to play a small midi file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<bgsound src="/html/yourfile.mid">
<noembed><img src="yourimage.gif" ></noembed>
</bgsound>
</body>
</html>
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This will produce blank screen. This tag does not display any component
and remains hidden.
Internet Explorer can also handle only three different sound format files:
wav, the native format for PCs; au, the native format for most Unix
workstations; and MIDI, a universal music-encoding scheme.
HTML Object tag

HTML 4 introduces the <object> element, which offers an all-purpose
solution to generic object inclusion. The <object> element allows HTML
authors to specify everything required by an object for its presentation by a
user agent
Here are few examples:
Example - 1
You can embed an HTML document in an HTML document itself as follows:
<object data="data/test.htm" type="text/html" width="300" height="200">
alt : <a href="data/test.htm">test.htm</a>
</object>
Here alt attribute will come into picture if browser does not
support object tag.
Example - 2
You can embed a PDF document in an HTML document as follows:
<object data="data/test.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="300" height="200">
alt : <a href="data/test.pdf">test.htm</a>
</object>
Example - 3
You can specify some parameters related to the document with
the <param> tag. Here is an example to embed a wav file:
<object data="data/test.wav" type="audio/x-wav" width="200" height="20">

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<param name="src" value="data/test.wav">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="autoStart" value="0">
alt : <a href="data/test.wav">test.wav</a>
</object>
Example - 4
You can add a flash document as follows:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="penguin"
codebase="someplace/swflash.cab" width="200" height="300">
<param name="movie" value="flash/penguin.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<img src="penguin.jpg" width="200" height="300" alt="Penguin" />
</object>
Example - 5
You can add a java applet into HTML document as follows:
<object classid="clsid:8ad9c840-044e-11d1-b3e9-00805f499d93"
width="200" height="200">
<param name="code" value="applet.class">
</object>
The classid attribute identifies which version of Java Plug-in to use. You
can use the optional codebase attribute to specify if and how to download
the JRE.
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HTML Marquees
An HTML marquee is a scrolling piece of text displayed either horizontally
across or vertically down your webpage depending on the settings. This is
created by using HTML <marquees> tag.
Note: The HTML <marquee> tag may not be supported by various browsers so its not
recommended to rely on this tag, instead you can use Javascript and CSS to create
such effects.
Syntax
A simple syntax to use HTML <marquee> tag is as follows:
<marquee attribute_name="attribute_value"....more attributes>
One or more lines or text message or image
</marquee>
The <marquee> Tag Attributes

Following is the list of important attributes which can be used with
<marquee> tag.
width This specifies the width of the marquee. This can be

a value like 10 or 20% etc.
height This specifies the height of the marquee. This can be

a value like 10 or 20% etc.
direction This specifies the direction in which marquee should

scroll. This can be a value like up, down, left or right.
behavior This specifies the type of scrolling of the marquee.

This can have a value like scroll, slide and alternate.
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scrolldelay This specifies how long to delay between each jump.

This will have a value like 10 etc.
scrollamount This specifies the speed of marquee text. This can

have a value like 10 etc.
loop This specifies how many times to loop. The default

value is INFINITE, which means that the marquee
loops endlessly.
bgcolor This specifies background color in terms of color

name or color hex value.
hspace This specifies horizontal space around the marquee.

This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
vspace This specifies vertical space around the marquee.

This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
Below are few examples to demonstrate the usage of marquee tag.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<marquee>This is basic example of marquee</marquee>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
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<body>
<marquee width="50%">This example will take only 50% width</marquee>
</body>
</html>
Examples - 3
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<marquee direction="right">This text will scroll from left to right</marquee>
</body>
</html>
Another Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<marquee direction="up">This text will scroll from bottom to up</marquee>
</body>
</html>
HTML Header
We have learnt that a typical HTML document will have following structure:
Document declaration tag
<html>
<head>
Document header related tags
</head>
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<body>
Document body related tags
</body>
</html>
This chapter will give a little more detail about header part which is
represented by HTML <head> tag. The <head> tag is a container of various
important tags like <title>, <meta>, <link>, <base>, <style>, <script>,
and <noscript> tags.
The HTML <title> Tag

The HTML <title> tag is used for specifying the title of the HTML document.
Following is an example to give a title to an HTML document:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Title Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello, World!
The HTML <meta> Tag

The HTML <meta> tag is used to provide metadata about the HTML
document which includes information about page expiry, page author, list of
keywords, page description etc.
Following are few of the important usages of <meta> tag inside an HTML
document:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Meta Tag Example</title>

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<meta name="keywords" content="C, C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python">

<meta name="description" content="Simply Easy Learning by Tutorials Point">

<meta name="author" content="Tutorials Point">

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 21 June 2006 14:25:27 GMT">

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Hello, World!
The HTML <base> Tag

The HTML <base> tag is used for specifying the base URL for all relative URLs in a
page, which means all the other URLs will be concatenated into base URL while
locating for the given item.
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For example, all the given pages and images will be searched after prefixing the
given URLs with base URL http://www.sun.com/ directory:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Base Tag Example</title>
<base href="http://www.sunpoint.com/" />
</head>
<body>
<img src="/images/logo.png" alt="Logo Image"/>
<a href="/html/index.htm" title="HTML Tutorial"/>HTML Tutorial</a>
</body>
</html>
HTML Tutorial
The HTML <link> Tag

The HTML <link> tag is used to specify relationships between the current
document and external resource. Following is an example to link an external style
sheet file available in css sub-directory within web root:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML link Tag Example</title>
<base href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

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Hello, World!
The HTML <style> Tag

The HTML <style> tag is used to specify style sheet for the current HTML
document. Following is an example to define few style sheet rules inside <style>
tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML style Tag Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
.myclass{
background-color: #aaa;
padding: 10px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="myclass">Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello, World!
The HTML <script> Tag

The HTML <script> tag is used to include either external script file or to define
internal script for the HTML document. Following is an example where we are using
Javascript to define a simple Javascript function:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML script Tag Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
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function Hello(){
alert("Hello, World");
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="Hello();" name="ok" value="OK" />
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result, where you can try to click on the given
button:
HTML Style Sheet
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) describe how documents are presented on screens,
in print, or perhaps how they are pronounced. W3C has actively promoted the use
of style sheets on the Web since the Consortium was founded in 1994.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) provide easy and effective alternatives to specify
various attributes for the HTML tags. Using CSS, you can specify a number of style
properties for a given HTML element. Each property has a name and a value,
separated by a colon (:). Each property declaration is separated by a semi-colon
(;).
Example
First let's consider an example of HTML document which makes use of
<font> tag and associated attributes to specify text color and font size:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><font color="green" size="5">Hello, World!</font></p>
</body>
</html>
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We can re-write above example with the help of Style Sheet as follows:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="color:green;font-size:24px;">Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello, World!
You can use CSS in three ways in your HTML document:
 External Style Sheet - Define style sheet rules in a separate .css file and then
include that file in your HTML document using HTML <link> tag.
 Internal Style Sheet - Define style sheet rules in header section of the HTML
document using <style> tag.
 Inline Style Sheet - Define style sheet rules directly along-with the HTML
elements using style attribute.
Let's see all the three cases one by one with the help of suitable examples.
External Style Sheet

If you need to use your style sheet to various pages, then its always recommended
to define a common style sheet in a separate file. A cascading style sheet file will
have extension as.css and it will be included in HTML files using <link> tag.
Example
Consider we define a style sheet file style.css which has following rules:
.red{
color: red;
.thick{
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font-size:20px;
.green{
color:green;
Here we defined three CSS rules which will be applicable to three different classes
defined for the HTML tags. I suggest you should not bother about how these rules
are being defined because you will learn them while studying CSS. Now let's make
use of the above external CSS file in our following HTML document:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML External CSS</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/html/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<p class="red">This is red</p>
<p class="thick">This is thick</p>
<p class="green">This is green</p>
<p class="thick green">This is thick and green</p>
</body>
</html>
This is red
This is thick
This is green
This is thick and green
Internal Style Sheet

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If you want to apply Style Sheet rules to a single document only then you can
include those rules in header section of the HTML document using <style> tag.
Rules defined in internal style sheet overrides the rules defined in an external CSS
file.
Example
Let's re-write above example once again, but here we will write style sheet rules in
the same HTML document using <style> tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Internal CSS</title>
<style type="text/css">
.red{
color: red;
.thick{
font-size:20px;
.green{
color:green;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="red">This is red</p>
<p class="thick">This is thick</p>
<p class="green">This is green</p>
<p class="thick green">This is thick and green</p>
</body>
</html>

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This is red
This is thick
This is green
Inline Style Sheet

You can apply style sheet rules directly to any HTML element using style attribute
of the relevant tag. This should be done only when you are interested to make a
particular change in any HTML element only.
Rules defined inline with the element overrides the rules defined in an external
CSS file as well as the rules defined in <style> element.
Example
Let's re-write above example once again, but here we will write style sheet rules
along with the HTML elements using styleattribute of those elements.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Inline CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="color:red;">This is red</p>
<p style="font-size:20px;">This is thick</p>
<p style="color:green;">This is green</p>
<p style="color:green;font-size:20px;">This is thick and green</p>
</body>
</html>
This is red
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This is thick
This is green
HTML Javascript
A script is a small piece of program that can add interactivity to your website. For
example, a script could generate a pop-up alert box message, or provide a
dropdown menu. This script could be written using Javascript or VBScript.
You can write various small functions, called event handlers using any of the
scripting language and then you can trigger those functions using HTML attributes.
Now a days only Javascript and associated frameworks are being used by most of
the web developers, VBScript is not even supported by various major browsers.
You can keep Javascript code in a separate file and then include it whereever it's
needed, or you can define functionality inside HTML document itself. Let's see both
the cases one by one with suitable examples.
External Javascript
If you are going to define a functionality which will be used in various HTML
documents then it's better to keep that functionality in a separate Javascript file
and then include that file in your HTML documents. A Javascript file will have
extension as .js and it will be included in HTML files using <script> tag.
Example
Consider we define a small function using Javascript in script.jswhich has
following code:
function Hello()
Now let's make use of the above external Javascript file in our following HTML
document:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Javascript External Script</title>
<script src="/html/script.js" type="text/javascript"/></script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="Hello();" name="ok" value="Click Me" />
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result, where you can try to click on the given button:
Internal Script
You can write your script code directly into your HTML document. Usually we keep
script code in header of the document using <script> tag, otherwise there is no
restriction and you can put your source code anywhere in the document but inside
<script> tag.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Javascript Internal Script</title>
function Hello(){
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="Hello();" name="ok" value="Click Me" />
</body>
</html>
This will produce following result, where you can try to click on the given button:
Event Handlers
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Event handlers are nothing but simply defined functions which can be called
against any mouse or keyboard event. You can define your business logic
inside your event handler which can vary from a single to 1000s of line
code.
Following example explains how to write an event handler. Let's write one
simple function EventHandler() in the header of the document. We will call
this function when any user brings mouse over a paragraph.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Event Handlers Example</title>
function EventHandler(){
alert("I'm event handler!!");
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p onmouseover="EventHandler();">Bring your mouse here to see an alert</p>
</body>
</html>
Now this will produce following result. Bring your mouse over this line and
see the result:
Bring your mouse here to see an alert
Hide Scripts from Older Browsers

Although most (if not all) browsers these days support Javascript, but still some
older browsers don't. If a browser doesn't support JavaScript, instead of running
your script, it would display the code to the user. To prevent this, you can simply
place HTML comments around the script as shown below.
JavaScript Example:

</script>
VBScript Example:
<script type="text/vbscript">

</script>
The <noscript> Element

You can also provide alternative info to the users whose browsers don't support
scripts and for those users who have disabled script option their browsers. You can
do this using the <noscript> tag.
JavaScript Example:

</script>
<noscript>Your browser does not support Javascript!</noscript>
VBScript Example:
<script type="text/vbscript">

</script>
<noscript>Your browser does not support VBScript!</noscript>
Default Scripting Language

There may be a situation when you will include multiple script files and ultimately
using multiple <script> tags. You can specify a default scripting language for all
your script tags. This saves you from specifying the language everytime you use a
script tag within the page. Below is the example:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/JavaScript" />

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Note that you can still override the default by specifying a language within the
script tag.
HTML Layouts
A webpage layout is very important to give better look to your website. It takes
considerable time to design a website's layout with great look and feel.
Now a days, all modern websites are using CSS and Javascript based framework to
come up with responsive and dynamic websites but you can create a good layout
using simple HTML tables or division tags in combination with other formatting
tags. This chapter will give you few examples on how to create a simple but
working layout for your webpage using pure HTML and its attributes.
HTML Layout - Using Tables

The simplest and most popular way of creating layouts is using HTML
<table> tag. These tables are arranged in columns and rows, so you can
utilize these rows and columns in whatever way you like.
For example, the following HTML layout example is achieved using a table
with 3 rows and 2 columns but the header and footer column spans both
columns using the colspan attribute:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Layout using Tables</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#b5dcb3">
<h1>This is Web Page Main title</h1>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td bgcolor="#aaa" width="50">
<b>Main Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
HTML
PERL...
</td>
<td bgcolor="#eee" width="100" height="200">
Technical and Managerial Tutorials
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#b5dcb3">
<center>
Copyright © 2007 Tutorialspoint.com
</center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This is Web Page Main title

Main Menu Technical and Managerial Tutorials
HTML
PHP
PERL...
Copyright © 2007 Tutorialspoint.com
Multiuple Columns Layout - Using Tables

You can design your webpage to put your web content in multiple pages. You can
keep your content in middle column and you can use left column to use menu and
right column can be used to put advertisement or some other stuff. This layout will
be very similar to what we have at our website tutorialspoint.com.
Here is an example to create three column layout:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Three Column HTML Layout</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr valign="top">
<td bgcolor="#aaa" width="20%">
<b>Main Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</td>
<td bgcolor="#b5dcb3" height="200" width="60%">
</td>
<td bgcolor="#aaa" width="20%">
<b>Right Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</td>
</tr>
<table>
</body>
</html>

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Main Menu Technical and Managerial Tutorials Right Menu

HTML HTML
PHP PHP
PERL... PERL...
HTML Layouts - Using DIV, SPAN

The <div> element is a block level element used for grouping HTML elements.
While the <div> tag is a block-level element, the HTML <span> element is used
for grouping elements at an inline level.
Although we can achieve pretty nice layouts with HTML tables, but tables weren't
really designed as a layout tool. Tables are more suited to presenting tabular data.
Note: This example makes use of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), so before
understanding this example you need to have a better understanding on how CSS
works.
Example
Here we will try to achieve same result using <div> tag along with CSS,
whatever you have achieved using <table> tag in previous example.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Layouts using DIV, SPAN</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="width:100%">
<div style="background-color:#b5dcb3; width:100%">
<h1>This is Web Page Main title</h1>
</div>
<div style="background-color:#aaa; height:200px;width:100px;float:left;">
<div><b>Main Menu</b></div>
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PHP<br />
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</div>
<div style="background-color:#eee; height:200px;width:350px;float:left;">
<p>Technical and Managerial Tutorials</p>
</div>
<div style="background-color:#aaa; height:200px;width:100px;float:right;">
<div><b>Right Menu</b></div>
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PHP<br />
PERL...
</div>
<div style="background-color:#b5dcb3;clear:both">
<center>
Copyright © 2009 sunpoint.com
</center>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This is Web Page Main title

Main Menu
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Chapter 1 (Introduction to HTML)

Basic HTML Document

HTML Document Structure

<title>Sun Infotech Solutiona</title>

The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration

HTML Basic Tags

Line Break Tag

Non breaking Spaces

<title>Nonbreaking Spaces Example</title>

<p>An example of this technique appears in the movie "12&nbsp;Angry&nbsp;Men."</p>

Start Tag Content End Tag

<p> This is paragraph content. </p>

<h1> This is heading content. </h1>

<div> This is division content. </div>

So here <p>....</p> is an HTML element, <h1>...</h1> is another HTML element.

Nested HTML Elements

<title>Nested Elements Example</title>

<h1>This is <i>italic</i> heading</h1>

<p>This is <u>underlined</u> paragraph</p>

An attribute is used to define the characteristics of an HTML element and is

<title>Align Attribute Example</title>

<p align="left">This is left aligned</p>

<p align="center">This is center aligned</p>

<p align="right">This is right aligned</p>

This will display following result:

This is left aligned

This is center aligned

This is right aligned

 If an element carries an id attribute as a unique identifier it is possible to

The title Attribute

<title>The title Attribute Example</title>

<h3 title="Hello HTML!">Titled Heading Tag Example</h3>

This will produce following result:

Titled Heading Tag Example

The class Attribute

The value of the attribute may also be a space-separated list of class

class="className1 className2 className3"

The style Attribute

<title>The style Attribute</title>

<p style="font-family:arial; color:#FF0000;">Some text...</p>

The following word uses a strikethrough typeface.

<title>Monospaced Font Example</title>

<p>The following word uses a <tt>monospaced</tt> typeface.</p>

This will produce following result:

The following word uses a monospaced typeface.

The following word uses a superscript

The following word uses a subscript typeface.

<title>Inserted Text Example</title>

<p>I want to drink <del>cola</del> <ins>wine</ins></p>

This will produce following result:

I want to drink cola wine

<title>Larger Text Example</title>

<p>The following word uses a <big>big</big> typeface.</p>

<title>Smaller Text Example</title>

<p>The following word uses a <small>small</small> typeface.</p>

This will produce following result:

The following word uses a small typeface.

<title>Div Tag Example</title>

<p>An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."</p>