HTML Fundamentals
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Arpita SantraHTML Fundamentals
Uploaded by
Arpita SantraHTML Basics
HTML, Text, Images, Tables, Forms
Svetlin Nakov
Telerik Corporation
www.telerik.com
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to HTML
How the Web Works?
What is a Web Page?
My First HTML Page
Basic Tags: Hyperlinks, Images, Formatting
Headings and Paragraphs
2. HTML in Details
The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration
The <head> Section: Title, Meta, Script, Style
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Table of Contents (2)
The <body> Section
Text Styling and Formatting Tags
Hyperlinks: <a>
Hyperlinks and Sections
Images: <img>
Lists: <ol>, <ul> and <dl>
HTML Special Characters
3. The <div> and <span> elements
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How the Web Works?
WWW use classical client / server architecture
HTTP is text-based request-response protocol
HTTP
Page request
HTTP
Server response
Server running Web
Client running a
Server Software
Web Browser
(IIS, Apache, etc.)
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What is a Web Page?
Web pages are text files containing HTML
HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language
A notation for describing
document structure (semantic markup)
formatting (presentation markup)
Looks (looked?) like:
A Microsoft Word document
The markup tags provide information about
the page content structure
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Creating HTML Pages
An HTML file must have an .htm or .html file
extension
HTML files can be created with text editors:
NotePad, NotePad ++, PSPad
Or HTML editors (WYSIWYG Editors):
Microsoft FrontPage
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Netscape Composer
Microsoft Word
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HTML Basics
Text, Images, Tables, Forms
HTML Structure
HTML is comprised of “elements” and “tags”
Begins with <html> and ends with </html>
When writing XHTML, must define a namespace
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
Elements (tags) are nested one inside another:
<html> <head></head> <body></body> </html>
Tags have attributes:
<img src="logo.jpg" alt="logo" />
HTML describes structure using two main sections:
<head> and <body>
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HTML Code Formatting
The HTML source code should be formatted to
increase readability and facilitate debugging.
Every block element should start on a new line.
Every nested (block) element should be indented.
Browsers ignore multiple whitespaces in the page
source, so formatting is harmless.
For performance reasons, formatting can be
sacrificed.
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First HTML Page
test.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>My First HTML Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is some text...</p>
</body>
</html>
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First HTML Page: Tags
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
Opening tag
<html>
<head>
<title>My First HTML Page</title>
</head>
<body> Closing tag
<p>This is some text...</p>
</body>
</html>
An HTML element consists of an opening tag, a closing tag
and the content inside.
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First HTML Page: Header
HTML header
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>My First HTML Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is some text...</p>
</body>
</html>
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First HTML Page: Body
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>My First HTML Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is some text...</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML body
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Some Simple Tags
Hyperlink Tags
<a href="http://www.telerik.com/"
title="Telerik">Link to Telerik Web site</a>
Image Tags
<img src="logo.gif" alt="logo" />
Text formatting tags
This text is <em>emphasized.</em>
<br />new line<br />
This one is <strong>more emphasized.</strong>
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Some Simple Tags – Example
some-tags.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Simple Tags Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.telerik.com/" title=
"Telerik site">This is a link.</a>
<br />
<img src="logo.gif" alt="logo" />
<br />
<strong>Bold</strong> and <em>italic</em> text.
</body>
</html>
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Some Simple Tags – Example (2)
some-tags.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Simple Tags Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.telerik.com/" title=
"Telerik site">This is a link.</a>
<br />
<img src="logo.gif" alt="logo" />
<br />
<strong>Bold</strong> and <em>italic</em> text.
</body>
</html>
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Some HTML Tags
Live Demo
Tags Attributes
Tags can have attributes
Attributes specify properties and behavior
Example: Attribute alt with value "logo"
<img src="logo.gif" alt="logo" />
Few attributes can apply to every element:
id, style, class, title
The id is unique in the document
Content of title attribute is displayed as hint
when the element is hovered with the mouse
Some elements have obligatory attributes
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Headings and Paragraphs
Heading Tags (h1 – h6)
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Sub heading 2</h2>
<h3>Sub heading 3</h3>
Paragraph Tags
<p>This is my first paragraph</p>
<p>This is my second paragraph</p>
Sections: div and span
<div style="background: skyblue;">
This is a div</div>
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Headings and Paragraphs –
Example
headings.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head><title>Headings and paragraphs</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Sub heading 2</h2>
<h3>Sub heading 3</h3>
<p>This is my first paragraph</p>
<p>This is my second paragraph</p>
<div style="background:skyblue">
This is a div</div>
</body>
</html>
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Headings and Paragraphs –
Example (2)
headings.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head><title>Headings and paragraphs</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Sub heading 2</h2>
<h3>Sub heading 3</h3>
<p>This is my first paragraph</p>
<p>This is my second paragraph</p>
<div style="background:skyblue">
This is a div</div>
</body>
</html>
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Headings and Paragraphs
Live Demo
Introduction to HTML
HTML Document Structure in Depth
Preface
It is important to have the correct vision and
attitude towards HTML
HTML is only about structure, not appearance
Browsers tolerate invalid HTML code and parse
errors – you should not.
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The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration
HTML documents must start with a document
type definition (DTD)
It tells web browsers what type is the served code
Possible versions: HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0
(Transitional or Strict), XHTML 1.1, HTML 5
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
See http://w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html for a list
of possible doctypes
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HTML vs. XHTML
XHTML is more strict than HTML
Tags and attribute names must be in lowercase
All tags must be closed (<br/>, <img/>) while
HTML allows <br> and <img> and implies
missing closing tags (<p>par1 <p>par2)
XHTML allows only one root <html> element
(HTML allows more than one)
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XHTML vs. HTML (2)
Many element attributes are deprecated in
XHTML, most are moved to CSS
Attribute minimization is forbidden, e.g.
<input type="checkbox" checked>
<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" />
Note: Web browsers load XHTML faster than
HTML and valid code faster than invalid!
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The <head> Section
Contains information that doesn’t show
directly on the viewable page
Starts after the <!doctype> declaration
Begins with <head> and ends with </head>
Contains mandatory single <title> tag
Can contain some other tags, e.g.
<meta>
<script>
<style>
<!–- comments -->
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<head> Section: <title> tag
Title should be placed between <head> and
</head> tags
<title>Telerik Academy – Winter Season 2009/2010
</title>
Used to specify a title in the window titlebar
Search engines and people rely on titles
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<head> Section: <meta>
Meta tags additionally describe the content
contained within the page
<meta name="description" content="HTML
tutorial" />
<meta name="keywords" content="html, web
design, styles" />
<meta name="author" content="Chris Brewer" />
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;
url=http://www.telerik.com" />
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<head> Section: <script>
The <script> element is used to embed
scripts into an HTML document
Script are executed in the client's Web browser
Scripts can live in the <head> and in the <body>
sections
Supported client-side scripting languages:
JavaScript (it is not Java!)
VBScript
JScript
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The <script> Tag – Example
<!DOCTYPE HTML> scripts-example.html
<html>
<head>
<title>JavaScript Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function sayHello() {
document.write("<p>Hello World!<\/p>");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script type=
"text/javascript">
sayHello();
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Using Scripts
Live Demo
<head> Section: <style>
The <style> element embeds formatting
information (CSS styles) into an HTML page
<html> style-example.html
<head>
<style type="text/css">
p { font-size: 12pt; line-height: 12pt; }
p:first-letter { font-size: 200%; }
span { text-transform: uppercase; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Styles demo.<br />
<span>Test uppercase</span>.
</p>
</body>
</html>
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Embedding CSS Styles
Live Demo
Comments: <!-- --> Tag
Comments can exist anywhere between the
<html></html> tags
Comments start with <!-- and end with -->
<!–- Telerik Logo (a JPG file) -->
<img src="logo.jpg" alt=“Telerik Logo">
<!–- Hyperlink to the web site -->
<a href="http://telerik.com/">Telerik</a>
<!–- Show the news table -->
<table class="newstable">
...
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<body> Section: Introduction
The <body> section describes the viewable
portion of the page
Starts after the <head> </head> section
Begins with <body> and ends with </body>
<html>
<head><title>Test page</title></head>
<body>
<!-- This is the Web page body -->
</body>
</html>
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Text Formatting
Text formatting tags modify the text between
the opening tag and the closing tag
Ex. <b>Hello</b> makes “Hello” bold
<b></b> bold
<i></i> italicized
<u></u> underlined
<sup></sup> Samplesuperscript
<sub></sub> Samplesubscript
<strong></strong> strong
<em></em> emphasized
<pre></pre> Preformatted text
<blockquote></blockquote> Quoted text block
<del></del> Deleted text – strike through
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Text Formatting – Example
text-formatting.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Notice</h1>
<p>This is a <em>sample</em> Web page.</p>
<p><pre>Next paragraph:
preformatted.</pre></p>
<h2>More Info</h2>
<p>Specifically, we’re using XHMTL 1.0 transitional.<br />
Next line.</p>
</body>
</html>
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Text Formatting – Example (2)
text-formatting.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Notice</h1>
<p>This is a <em>sample</em> Web page.</p>
<p><pre>Next paragraph:
preformatted.</pre></p>
<h2>More Info</h2>
<p>Specifically, we’re using XHMTL 1.0 transitional.<br />
Next line.</p>
</body>
</html>
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Text Formatting
Live Demo
Hyperlinks: <a> Tag
Link to a document called form.html on the
same server in the same directory:
<a href="form.html">Fill Our Form</a>
Link to a document called parent.html on
the same server in the parent directory:
<a href="../parent.html">Parent</a>
Link to a document called cat.html on the
same server in the subdirectory stuff:
<a href="stuff/cat.html">Catalog</a>
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Hyperlinks: <a> Tag (2)
Link to an external Web site:
<a href="http://www.devbg.org" target="_blank">BASD</a>
Always use a full URL, including "http://", not
just "www.somesite.com"
Using the target="_blank" attribute opens
the link in a new window
Link to an e-mail address:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Bug+Report">
Please report bugs here (by e-mail only)</a>
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Hyperlinks: <a> Tag (3)
Link to a document called apply-now.html
On the same server, in same directory
Using an image as a link button:
<a href="apply-now.html"><img
src="apply-now-button.jpg" /></a>
Link to a document called index.html
On the same server, in the subdirectory english of
the parent directory:
<a href="../english/index.html">Switch to
English version</a>
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Hyperlinks and Sections
Link to another location in the same document:
<a href="#section1">Go to Introduction</a>
...
<h2 id="section1">Introduction</h2>
Link to a specific location in another document:
<a href="chapter3.html#section3.1.1">Go to Section
3.1.1</a>
<!–- In chapter3.html -->
...
<div id="section3.1.1">
<h3>3.1.1. Technical Background</h3>
</div>
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Hyperlinks – Example
hyperlinks.html
<a href="form.html">Fill Our Form</a> <br />
<a href="../parent.html">Parent</a> <br />
<a href="stuff/cat.html">Catalog</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.devbg.org" target="_blank">BASD</a>
<br />
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Bug
Report">Please report bugs here (by e-mail only)</a>
<br />
<a href="apply-now.html"><img src="apply-now-button.jpg”
/></a> <br />
<a href="../english/index.html">Switch to English
version</a> <br />
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Hyperlinks – Example (2)
hyperlinks.html
<a href="form.html">Fill Our Form</a> <br />
<a href="../parent.html">Parent</a> <br />
<a href="stuff/cat.html">Catalog</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.devbg.org" target="_blank">BASD</a>
<br />
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Bug
Report">Please report bugs here (by e-mail only)</a>
<br />
<a href="apply-now.html"><img src="apply-now-button.jpg”
/></a> <br />
<a href="../english/index.html">Switch to English
version</a> <br />
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Hyperlinks
Live Demo
Links to the Same Document –
Example
links-to-same-document.html
<h1>Table of Contents</h1>
<p><a href="#section1">Introduction</a><br />
<a href="#section2">Some background</A><br />
<a href="#section2.1">Project History</a><br />
...the rest of the table of contents...
<!-- The document text follows here -->
<h2 id="section1">Introduction</h2>
... Section 1 follows here ...
<h2 id="section2">Some background</h2>
... Section 2 follows here ...
<h3 id="section2.1">Project History</h3>
... Section 2.1 follows here ...
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Links to the Same Document –
Example (2)
links-to-same-document.html
<h1>Table of Contents</h1>
<p><a href="#section1">Introduction</a><br />
<a href="#section2">Some background</A><br />
<a href="#section2.1">Project History</a><br />
...the rest of the table of contents...
<!-- The document text follows here -->
<h2 id="section1">Introduction</h2>
... Section 1 follows here ...
<h2 id="section2">Some background</h2>
... Section 2 follows here ...
<h3 id="section2.1">Project History</h3>
... Section 2.1 follows here ...
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Links to the Same Document
Live Demo
Images: <img> tag
Inserting an image with <img> tag:
<img src="/img/basd-logo.png">
Image attributes:
src Location of image file (relative or absolute)
alt Substitute text for display (e.g. in text mode)
height Number of pixels of the height
width Number of pixels of the width
border Size of border, 0 for no border
Example:
<img src="./php.png" alt="PHP Logo" />
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Miscellaneous Tags
<hr />: Draws a horizontal rule (line):
<hr size="5" width="70%" />
<center></center>: Deprecated!
<center>Hello World!</center>
<font></font>: Deprecated!
<font size="3" color="blue">Font3</font>
<font size="+4" color="blue">Font+4</font>
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Miscellaneous Tags – Example
misc.html
<html>
<head>
<title>Miscellaneous Tags Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<hr size="5" width="70%" />
<center>Hello World!</center>
<font size="3" color="blue">Font3</font>
<font size="+4" color="blue">Font+4</font>
</body>
</html>
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Miscellaneous Tags
Live Demo
Ordered Lists: <ol> Tag
Create an Ordered List using <ol></ol>:
<ol type="1">
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Grapefruit</li>
</ol>
Attribute values for type are 1, A, a, I, or i
1. Apple i. Apple
2. Orange ii. Orange
3. Grapefruit iii. Grapefruit
a. Apple
A. Apple b. Orange I. Apple
B. Orange c. Grapefruit II. Orange
C. Grapefruit III. Grapefruit
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Unordered Lists: <ul> Tag
Create an Unordered List using <ul></ul>:
<ul type="disk">
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Grapefruit</li>
</ul>
Attribute values for type are:
disc, circle or square
• Apple o Apple Apple
• Orange o Orange Orange
• Pear o Pear Pear
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Definition lists: <dl> tag
Create definition lists using <dl>
Pairs of text and associated definition; text is in
<dt> tag, definition in <dd> tag
<dl>
<dt>HTML</dt>
<dd>A markup language …</dd>
<dt>CSS</dt>
<dd>Language used to …</dd>
</dl>
Renders without bullets
Definition is indented
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Lists – Example
<ol type="1">
<li>Apple</li>
lists.html
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Grapefruit</li>
</ol>
<ul type="disc">
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Grapefruit</li>
</ul>
<dl>
<dt>HTML</dt>
<dd>A markup lang…</dd>
</dl>
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Creating Lists
Live Demo
HTML Special Characters
Symbol Name HTML Entity Symbol
Copyright Sign © ©
Registered Trademark Sign ® ®
Trademark Sign ™ ™
Less Than < <
Greater Than > >
Ampersand & &
Non-breaking Space
Em Dash — —
Quotation Mark " "
Euro € €
British Pound £ £
Japanese Yen ¥ ¥
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Special Characters – Example
<p>[>> Welcome special-chars.html
<<]</p>
<p>►I have following cards:
A♣, K♦ and 9♥.</p>
<p>►I prefer hard rock ♫
music ♫</p>
<p>© 2006 by Svetlin Nakov & his
team</p>
<p>Telerik Academy™</p>
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Special Chars – Example (2)
<p>[>> Welcome special-chars.html
<<]</p>
<p>►I have following cards:
A♣, K♦ and 9♥.</p>
<p>►I prefer hard rock ♫
music ♫</p>
<p>© 2006 by Svetlin Nakov & his
team</p>
<p>Telerik Academy™</p>
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HTML Special Characters
Live Demo
Using <DIV> and <SPAN>
Block and Inline Elements
Block and Inline Elements
Block elements add a line break before and
after them
<div> is a block element
Other block elements are <table>, <hr>,
headings, lists, <p> and etc.
Inline elements don’t break the text before
and after them
<span> is an inline element
Most HTML elements are inline, e.g. <a>
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The <div> Tag
<div> creates logical divisions within a page
Block style element
Used with CSS
Example:
div-and-span.html
<div style="font-size:24px; color:red">DIV
example</div>
<p>This one is <span style="color:red; font-
weight:bold">only a test</span>.</p>
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<DIV>
Live Demo
The <span> Tag
Inline style element
Useful for modifying a specific portion of text
Don't create a separate area
(paragraph) in the document
Very useful with CSS
span.html
<p>This one is <span style="color:red; font-
weight:bold">only a test</span>.</p>
<p>This one is another <span style="font-size:32px;
font-weight:bold">TEST</span>.</p>
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<SPAN>
Live Demo
HTML Basics
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Questions?
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http://academy.telerik.com
Exercises
1. Write an HTML page like the following:
* Use headings and divs
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Exercises (2)
2. Write an HTML page like the following:
3. Write an HTML page looking like the PNG file named
3.Introduction.PNG. Using the <a> tag add anchors
to the corresponding sections in the same page. 73
Exercises (3)
4. Create an user profile Web
page Profile.html, friends
page named Friends.html
and info page named
Info.html. Link them to
one another using <a> tag.
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Exercises (4)
5. Create a Web site like the following:
See the image InetJava-site.png. 75
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