jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It simplifies HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is written in and for JavaScript and designed for web front-end applications only. It is a lightweight library (30kb minified and gzipped) that supports accessing web elements via CSS3…
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>…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We’ve already seen the header tag for use as part of the header of a web page. However, a web page may have more than one header tag. Header tags may also be associated with an article, to provide header information about the article. For the head of a page, it is common to see…
