This tag is used to set an area within a form in which the user can type a large amount of text. The textarea’s are basically used for giving comments and free form feedback from visitors. [Read more…] about Html Textarea
Html TabIndex
Now we will be discussing how to navigate through a particular form. By default, you navigate through the form in the order in which elements appear in the form, using tab index attribute you can change this default order. Just place the tabindex attribute in the input field. Our sample form shows the following fields and they will be accessed in the order they are listed. Using the tabindex attribute the order will change. The following code shows the new order as below: [Read more…] about Html TabIndex
Html Center
We have seen a number of tags that allow you to change line, create different types of paragraphs or insert lines are separated. We have also seen some of the labels used with the attribute ‘align’ that Indicates the alignment. [Read more…] about Html Center
Html Address
<address>, in English means direction. This label is composed also of two directions and is used to include information about the author of a web page or related items. May be an example of its use in existing tag lines at the end of many pages that include user information from varied as can be, besides the author, the date of the last modified, the current date, the URL of the page, etc. [Read more…] about Html Address
Html Thumbnails
Including larger images in web pages increases the loading time. You can resize your images by using the height and width attributes but still the full size image is downloaded. Decreasing loading time is one of the major aspects of web designing. Instead of using a large image you can include a small version of the actual image called thumbnail which is also a link to the larger version including thumbnails, visitors have a choice whether to see the actual image or not. [Read more…] about Html Thumbnails
HTML Marquee Tag
This tag is used to scroll text horizontally across the screen. It is mainly used to deliver a specific message to the visitor or to scroll Ads on a page. It is not a standard HTML tag and so the browser support for it is typically limited to Internet explorer. [Read more…] about HTML Marquee Tag
HTML LINE BREAK
It’s time to learn how to enter text on a website, but you need to understand how this text will be interpreted. When a browser reads the HTML page and interpreted for display the page, all multiple spaced, tabulated or line has been included in the texts be interpreted as a single space. This feature is often surprising (and even disturbing) at first, but it is undeniable that such action is necessary and consistent with the descriptive nature of HTML. The best way is to try to get used to this end we propose the following code examples that will shown in the same way by the browser but some contain line breaks, among other tabulated words, etc.. [Read more…] about HTML LINE BREAK
How to add Background Image in Html
In HTML, Adding a Background Image in HTML document, which is one among the most frequent tasks to use for your web page with the following Distinct Approaches: [Read more…] about How to add Background Image in Html
Html Blockquote
Another label associated with the HTML format is <blockquote> paragraphs, which consists of an instruction start and end, which indicates that the paragraph that contains a paraphrased. By using this label on browser displays the text or new paragraph with margins left and right. [Read more…] about Html Blockquote
The hr tag in HTML
The <hr> tag in HTML stands for horizontal rule and in HTML5, the <hr> tag represents a paragraph-level thematic break of an HTML page, whether text or not, maybe employed new label: <hr>. The HTML <hr> tag name comes from the English Horizontal Rule (horizontal line). This label formed by a single instruction (empty tag) and causes the browser to insert a horizontal line it separating the two paragraphs that compared. Four attributes allow changing its appearance. These are: [Read more…] about The hr tag in HTML
What is Active Server Pages (ASP)?
Active Server Pages (ASP) A web technology invented by Microsoft which enables program code and ACTIVEX objects to be embedded into web pages’ to achieve effects, such as pull down lists or tables of database records, not possible in HTML alone. ASP works only with Microsoft’s Internet Information Server, and permits scripts to be written in a variety of languages. When a request is made for the URL of their containing page, such scripts run on the server (rather than in the browser as Java applets do) and dynamically generate a page of ordinary HTML that is returned to the requesting client. [Read more…] about What is Active Server Pages (ASP)?
History of HTML
In 1986 the International Organization for Standardization released ISO 8879 entitled ‘Information Processing – Text and Office Systems – Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Although this defined a standard for the first time nothing much happened after that, mainly because no-one knew what to do with it. Then Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and suddenly the demand was there. [Read more…] about History of HTML
HTML Doctype Declaration
Doctype is a piece of code that goes in the first line of an HTML webpage. Don’t worry about what’s in it just recognize that this line is a Doctype. And I said ‘a’ Doctype as the fun part is there are a whole bunch of them. Which is why it is so important for you to understand which type pertains to your website. [Read more…] about HTML Doctype Declaration
HTML span tag
Two attributes “rowspan” and “colspan” are used to combine adjoining cells into larger cells. These attributes are used in either <TH> or <TD> tags and accepts a number as value. For rowspan attribute this number indicates the number of rows a cell should take up and for colspan the number of columns the cell should span. In both the cases the present cell is included in counting. [Read more…] about HTML span tag
HTTP Post Method
In general, when a visitor clicks the “submit” button, two things are sent to the server: the data that the visitor typed into the form, and an action, which basically tells .the server the name of the program, which knows how to process the form’s data. [Read more…] about HTTP Post Method
HTML form tag
An HTML form is a section of a web document into which the user can enter information. This information is passed back to a web server where it might be recorded in a database for future use or perhaps used to control what information is returned to the user. [Read more…] about HTML form tag
HTML Global accesskey Attribute
To access the form elements the user either clicks the mouse or uses the tab key. You can give your visitors a direct keyboard access by using access key attribute. This attribute specifies the character that you assign to the form element as a particular hot key. When the key is pressed together with the “alt” key, the corresponding form element gets activated. [Read more…] about HTML Global accesskey Attribute
HTML fieldset tag
<FIELDSET>tag creates a box around a group of widgets and <LEGEND>tag provides a label to the field set. Both tags require closing tags. [Read more…] about HTML fieldset tag
HTML input type=”hidden” Attribute
The input “type” = hidden is unusual in the respect that they do not appear in the displayed form. By setting the “type” attribute to hidden, it is possible to transmit default or previously specified text that is hidden from the user to the handling program. [Read more…] about HTML input type=”hidden” Attribute
HTML input type=”file” Attribute
HTML also supports a special input field, a file field, to allow visitors to upload files. If you want visitors to submit information – say a picture, a spreadsheet, a word-processed document or a scanned document, they can use this field to simply upload the file with the hassle of using FTP or e-mail the file. [Read more…] about HTML input type=”file” Attribute
HTML button tag
SUBMIT- After filling up the form, the user needs to submit the information. An <INPUT> tag with type = submit provides a button that submits the information in the completed form to the URL, given as the action attribute of the FORM tag. [Read more…] about HTML button tag
HTML Drop Down Menu
A pull down menu lets the user select one choice out of many possible choices. One nice aspect of pull-down menus is that all choices do not have to be seen on the screen and are normally hidden. They occupy minimal amount of space as it displays only on item of the list. In this kind of input field you use <SELECT>instead of <INPUT> and it has a closing tag. [Read more…] about HTML Drop Down Menu
Html Input Type
This tag defines an input area within a form. It asks the user to input information in one of several ways. The different ways of input are specified by “type attribute. This attribute can accept text, radio, checkbox, passwords submit, reset, image, hidden, etc. as its value. Each of them will be discussed separately in the coming sections. [Read more…] about Html Input Type
HTML Anchors & Links Tag
Before we go on to explain hyperlinks, let us try to differentiate linear and non-linear text. [Read more…] about HTML Anchors & Links Tag
HTML OL – Ordered lists
An Ordered list is one that is numbered and may also be used to indicate sequential form of information. <ol> and </ol> are opening and closing tags for an ordered list respectively. The code used for ordering the List as below: [Read more…] about HTML OL – Ordered lists
HTML table tag
A table is an orderly arrangement of data distributed across a grid of rows and columns similar to a spreadsheet. In printed documents, tables commonly serve a subordinate function, illustrating some point described by accompanying text. Tables still perform this illustrative function in HTML documents. [Read more…] about HTML table tag
HTML UL – Unordered lists – Bulleted lists
Unordered lists are used to represent a set of items that have a relation among themselves but do not follow a specific order. The syntax is same as that of ordered list, only <ol> and </ol> tags are replaced by <ul> and </ul>. [Read more…] about HTML UL – Unordered lists – Bulleted lists
What is CGI? | Common Gateway Interface Definition
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a specification defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), defining how a program interacts with a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) provides the middleware between WWW servers and external databases and information sources. CGI applications perform specific information processing, retrieval, and formatting tasks on behalf of WWW servers. [Read more…] about What is CGI? | Common Gateway Interface Definition
HTML frame tag
A frame is an independent scrolling region or window, of a web page. A framed document divides a browser window into multiple panes or smaller window frames. Each frame may contain a different document. Frames can communicate with each other so that an action performed on a page in one frame can change the contents and behavior of another frame. [Read more…] about HTML frame tag
How to add image in HTML
Adding an image in any part within an HTML is as simple as wrapping text in <p> and </p> tags. The label used to insert images in the HTML documents: <img> tag. It’s an empty tag and contains attributes only, that tag consists of a single instruction, and so </img> does not exist, and their use is prohibited. We can insert an image within <body>…</body> tag as if it were a word of it and displayed by the browser after the text. The src attribute used to add the image source, i.e., URL of this image. The alt attribute is for adding alternative text, width for adding width, and height for adding this image’s height. [Read more…] about How to add image in HTML