We’ve already looked at styling rows within a table, however, you can style more. By default a table doesn’t have any borders, color, or anything else. Luckily, like all HTML elements, you can apply styles to your elements. And since a table is made up of a lot of elements, you can apply styles to…
In addition to the standard tags that you often find people using, there are several optional tags which can be used to help organize the data. Browsers and/or libraries will sometimes use these additional tags to help organize your information and make it more user accessible, especially when dealing with large amounts of information. <thead>…
Tables were starting to be used years ago, and unfortunately, they started to be used for bad things (web page layout). This caused a lot of people to shun tables, and try to find ways to avoid using tables, even when it was the right set of tags to use. This is unfortunately just as…
Adding an image is simultaneously easy, and difficult to do. You might think, how can something be both easy, and difficult – well, it is easy to add the image itself, but it can be a challenge to master the process. <img> Tag Let’s start with the easy – the img tag. The image tag…
An ordered list provides a list of items that should be viewed and/or performed in a certain order. In a college or university setting, you might be given a series of classes that are recommended to take in a given order due to prerequisites. Or you might have a list of steps needed to perform…
Long web pages were common in the mid to late nineteen nineties. Old servers used to charge by the number of pages you stored on them, and the number of pages that were downloaded. Therefore many developers created long pages on content, instead of breaking it down into smaller chunks. To make navigation within the…
HTML documents came out of the desire to share information from one place to the next. But an early determination was that there was a need to interconnect related documents. That way, instead of having to incorporate all the information from multiple sources, the author could reference another document and it would be easy to…
Now we want to edit the links in our navigation bar. We have not looked at linking elements yet, so we’ll ignore the links themselves, and focus on initial styling. First we’ll set our nav tag. These three rules will set the padding, so we have some space around our navigation bar, fix it so…
