HTML and CSS Basic Tags Examples
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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HTML Basic Tags Examples
A very simple HTML document
How text inside paragraphs is displayed
More paragraphs
The use of line breaks
Poem problems (some problems with HTML formatting)
Heading tags
Center aligned heading
Insert a horizontal rule
Comments in the HTML source
Add a background color
HTML Formatting Text Examples
Text formattingPreformatted text (how to control line breaks and spaces)
Different computer-output tags
Insert an address
Abbreviations and acronyms
Text direction
Long and short quotations
How to mark deleted and inserted text
HTML Link Examples
How to create hyperlinks
Set an image as a link
Open a link in a new browser window
Jump to another part of a document (on the same page)
Break out of a frame
How to link to a mail message (will only work if you have mail installed)
A more complicated mail to link
HTML Frame Examples
How to create a vertical frameset with 3 different documents
How to create a horizontal frameset with 3 different documents
How to use the noframes tag
How to mix a frameset in rows and columns
Frameset with noresize="noresize"
How to create a navigation frame
Inline frame (a frame inside an HTML page)
Jump to a specified section within a frame
Jump to a specified section with frame navigation
HTML Table Examples
Simple tables
Different table borders
Table with no borders
Headings in a table
Empty cells
Table with a caption
Table cells that span more than one row/column
Tags inside a table
Cell padding (control the white space between cell content and the borders
Cell spacing (control the distance between cells)
Add a background color or a background image to a table
Add a background color or a background image to a table cell
Align the content in a table cell
The frame attribute
The frame and border attributes
HTML List Examples
An unordered list
An ordered list
Different types of ordered lists
Different types of unordered lists
Nested list
Nested list 2
Definition list
HTML Form and Input Examples
How to create input fields
Password fields
Checkboxes
Radiobuttons
Simple drop-down box (a selectable list)
Another drop-down box with a pre-selected value
Textarea (a multi-line text input field)
Create a button
Draw a border with a caption around data
Form with an input field and a submit button
Form with check boxes and a submit button
Form with radiobuttons and a submit button
Send e-mail from a form
HTML Image Examples
Insert images
Insert images from another folder or another server
Background image
Align an image within a text
Let the image float to the left/right of a paragraph
Adjust images to different sizes
Display an alternate text for an image (if the browser can't load images)
Make a hyperlink of an image
Create an image-map, with clickable regions
Turn an image into an image map
HTML Background Examples
Good background and text color
Bad background and text color
Good background image
Good background image 2
Bad background image
HTML Style Examples
Styles in the head section of an HTML document
Link that is not underlined
Link to an external style sheet
HTML Examples
Set a title of a document
One target for all links on a page
HTML meta Examples
Document description
Document keywords
Redirect a user to another URL
HTML Script Examples
Insert a script
Handle browsers that do not support scripts
CSS Background Examples
Set the background color
Set an image as the background
How to repeat a background image
How to repeat a background image only vertically
How to repeat a background image only horizontally
How to display a background image only one time
How to place the background image
How to position a background image using %
How to position a background image using pixels
A fixed background image (this image will not scroll with the rest of the page)
All the background properties in one declaration
Text
Set the color of the text
Set the background-color of the text
Specify the space between characters
Specify the space between lines
Align the text
Decorate the text
Indent text
Control the letters in a text
Set the text direction of an element
Increase the white space between words
Disable text wrapping inside an element
Font
Set the font of a text
Set a paragrap font using the "caption" value
Set the size of the font
Set the style of the font
Set the size of the font using font-size-adjust
Set the variant of the font
Set the boldness of the font
All the font properties in one declaration
Border
All the border properties in one declaration
Set different borders on each side
All the top border properties in one declaration
All the bottom border properties in one declaration
All the left border properties in one declaration
All the right border properties in one declaration
Set the style of the four borders
Set the style of the top border
Set the style of the bottom border
Set the style of the left border
Set the style of the right border
All the width border properties in one declaration
Set the width of the top border
Set the width of the bottom border
Set the width of the left border
Set the width of the right border
Set the color of the four borders
Set the color of the top border
Set the color of the bottom border
Set the color of the left border
Set the color of the right border
Outline
Draw a line around an element, outside the border edge (outline) (Does not work in IE)
Set the style of an outline (Does not work in IE)
Set the color of an outline (Does not work in IE)
Set the width of an outline (Does not work in IE)
Outline properties explained
Margin
All the margin properties in one declaration
Set the top margin of a text using a cm value
Set the top margin of a text using a percent value
Set the bottom margin of a text using a cm value
Set the bottom margin of a text using a percent value
Set the left margin of a text using a cm value
Set the left margin of a text using a percent value
Set the right margin of a text using a cm value
Set the right margin of a text using a percent value
Padding
Set the left padding of a tablecell
Set the right padding of a tablecell
Set the top padding of a tablecell
Set the bottom padding of a tablecell
All the padding properties in one declaration
List
The different list-item markers in unordered lists
The different list-item markers in ordered lists
All the list style typesSet an image as the list-item marker
Place the list-item marker
All list properties in one declaration
Table
Set the layout of a table
Show empty cells in a table
Collapse a table border
Set the space between table borders
Set the position of the table caption
Dimension
Set the height of an image using a pixel value
Set the height of an image using percent
Set the width of an element using a pixel value
Set the width of an element using percent
Set the maximum height of an element
Set the maximum width of an element using a pixel value
Set the maximum width of an element using percent
Set the minimum height of an element
Set the minimum width of an element using a pixel value
Set the minimum width of an element using percent
Specify the space between lines using a percent value
Specify the space between lines using a pixel value
Specify the space between lines using a number value
Classification
How to display an element as an inline element
How to display an element as a block element
A simple use of the float property
An image with border and margins that floats to the right in a paragraph
An image with a caption that floats to the right
Let the first letter of a paragraph float to the left
Creating a horizontal menu
Creating a homepage without tables
Position an element relative to its normal position
Position an element with an absolute value
Position an element relative to the browser window
How to make an element invisible
How to make a table element collapse
Change the cursor
Clear the sides of an element
Positioning
Position an element relative to its normal position
Position an element with an absolute value
Set the shape of an element
How to show overflow in an element using scroll
How to hide overflow in an element
How to show set the browser to automatically handle overflow
Vertical alignment of an image
Place an element "behind" another element
Place an element "behind" another element 2
Set the top edge of an image using a pixel value
Set the top edge of an image using a percent value
Set the bottom edge of an image using a pixel value
Set the bottom edge of an image using a percent value
Set the left edge of an image using a pixel value
Set the left edge of an image using a percent value
Set the right edge of an image using a pixel value
Set the right edge of an image using a percent value
Generated Content
Changes the quotation marks on a page
Pseudo-classes
Add different colors to a hyperlink
Add other styles to hyperlinksHyperlink: use of :focus (does not work in IE)
:first-child (does not work in IE)
:lang (does not work in IE)
Pseudo-elements
Make the first letter special in a text
Make the first line special in a text
Make the first letter and first line special
Use :before to insert some content before an element (Does not work in IE)
Use :after to insert some content after an element (Does not work in IE)
