December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
32h
English
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HTML Syntax
For the most part, HTML document
elements are simple to understand and use. Every HTML element
consists of a tag name, sometimes followed by an
optional list of attributes, all placed between
opening and closing brackets (< and
>). The simplest elements are nothing more than
the tag name enclosed in brackets, such as
<head> and <i>.
More complicated tags have attributes, which may have specific values
defined by the author to modify the behavior of an element.
Attributes belong after the tag name, each separated by one or more tab, space, or return characters. The order of attributes in a single tag is not important. An attribute’s value, if it has one, follows an equal sign after the attribute name. If an attribute’s value is a single word or number, you may simply add it after the equal sign. All other values should be enclosed in single or double quotation marks, especially if they contain several words separated by spaces. The length of an attribute’s value is limited to 1,024 characters. Here are some examples of tags with attributes:
<a href="http://www.ora.com/catalog.html" > <h1 align="right"> <input name="filename" size="24" maxlength="80"> <link title="Table of Contents">
Tag and attribute names are not case-sensitive, but attribute values
can be. For example, it is especially important to use the proper
capitalization when referencing the URLs of other documents with the
href attribute.
Most HTML elements consist of start and end tags that enclose a block ...
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