Friday, February 13, 2009

my learnings

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Why do we Use Lowercase Tags

  • HTML tags are not case sensitive: means the same as .
  • When you surf the Web, you will notice that most tutorials use uppercase HTML tags in their examples.
  • If you want to prepare yourself for the next generations of HTML, you should start using lowercase tags.
  • The World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) recommends lowercase tags in their HTML 4 recommendation, and XHTML (the next generation HTML) demands lowercase tags.

Tag Attributes

  • Tag attributes can provide additional information about the HTML elements in your page.
  • This tag defines the body of your HTML page:.With an added bgcolor attribute, you can tell the browser that the background color of your page should be red, like this: .
  • This tag defines an HTML table:. With an added border attribute, you can tell the browser that the table should have no borders:
  • Attributes always come in name/value pairs like this: name=“value”.
  • Attributes are always added to the start tag of an HTML element.
  • Attributes values should always be enclosed in quotes.

Basic HTML Tags

  • The most important tags in HTML are tags that define headings, paragraphs and line breaks.

Line Breaks

  • The tag is used when you want to end a line, but don’t want to start a new paragraph. The
    tag forces a line break wherever you place it.
  • The tag is an empty tag. It has no closing tag.

Comments in HTML

  • The comment tag is used to insert a comment in the HTML source code. A comment will be ignored by the browser.
  • You can use comments to explain your code, which can help you when you edit the source code at a later date.








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