Web Design Playground, Second Edition

16 More HTML Elements for Web Designers

This chapter covers

• Checking out some underused but important HTML elements
• Linking to files on your site
• Linking to a specific element on a page
• Adding special characters and comments

You may have noticed that after a flurry of HTML-related activity in the early chapters of the book, subsequent chapters had a decidedly CSS flavor. That's not too much of a surprise, because after you know a few basic tags such as <div>, <p>, and <span>, you can hang a lot of CSS baggage on them and create some fine-looking web pages. But there's more to HTML than these basic elements. You saw a few useful page structure elements in Chapter 11, but in this chapter, you'll extend your HTML know-how even further with elements ...