December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
95 pages
2h 34m
English
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Tag Structures
The examples below show the tag structure for common web page elements. When an attribute appears in the tag, it indicates that the attribute is required.
HTML Document
The standard skeletal structure of an HTML document is as follows:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>document title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
contents of document
</BODY>
</HTML>Lists
The following are examples of simple lists.
Definition list
<DL>
<DT>
<DD>
<DT>
<DD>
</DL>Ordered (numbered) list
<OL> <LI> <LI> <LI> </OL>
Unordered (bulleted) list
<UL> <LI> <LI> <LI> </UL>
Nested lists
<OL>
<LI>
<LI>
<UL>
<LI>
<LI>
</UL>
</OL>Linking Within a Document
The first <a> tag specifies a named
fragment; the second <a> tag links back to
that named fragment.
<A NAME="fragmentname" >Text</A> ... <A HREF="#fragmentname">Link to Text</A>
Client-side Imagemap
In the example below, the image graphic.gif is an imagemap that contains two clickable areas and uses the client-side imagemap named map1.
<MAP NAME="map1" > <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="123,20,234,40" HREF=http://www.oreilly.com/"> <AREA SHAPE="circ" COORDS="111,50,25" HREF="index.html"> </MAP> <IMG SRC="graphic.gif" USEMAP="map1">
Basic Table
The following HTML sample shows the basic structure for a simple
four-cell table. The number of columns is determined by the number of
cells (<td>) that appear within each row
(<tr>). The table in the example below has
two rows and two columns.
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD></TD>
<TD></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD></TD>
<TD></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>Framed Document
The following code ...
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