A table actually isn’t a single tag, but is made up of several tags working together. Some of these tags are required, however, most are optional. Now tables are a bit unique because of the number of optional tags you can define, and how that will help you design and improve the usability of the…
The most common form of linking will be to other pages within your website. These are often called internal site links, as they are part of your own website. When you link to another file, you need to specify the file name in the href attribute like is shown below. Notice that the only required…
The main tag is used to define the main content section of the web page. The content within the web document should be unique between the pages, and not contain replicated data such as navigation links, headers, footers, sidebar data etc. Within the main tag, you can find articles, standard content which you’ve already seen,…
As you start to build more complex websites, it is important to organize the data structure efficiently and effectively. HTML 5 added several organizational tags to help provide context to the contained data. In the previous version of HTML, we’d usually use a div tag, with a user created class. However, the issue with that…
At the top of the web page you will often find information about the website such as the name, logo, and possibly the main navigation, date, and/or a site wide search function. Depending upon styling in coordination with the tags, there are different ways to build the site. However, you might expect to see something…
After the head tag set, you’ll normally find the body tag set. In the body tag set, is all of the tags and information that is displayed to the website visitor. The body tag will be using the rest of the HTML tags that are available to us. So we won’t actually see the body…
Writing the Document A web page is written as a plain text file. That means you can write it with a text editor such as Notepad, Notepad++, etc. You do not need a special web page builder or tool to create pages. Those can make it a little easier, but often cost a lot more…
Buttons are used for various purposes on a web page, like submitting a form. And sometimes we want a link to look like a button, and have to figure out how to make that work. Luckily, Bootstrap has given us several classes to make working with buttons and building buttons much easier! This includes both…
