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For Beginners...
Introduction
Document
Text
Organisation tools
Forms
Images
Sounds
Special Effects - Javascript
Search Engines

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For Beginners...


Introduction

 Other HTML sites
Putting pages online
Tips For beginners
Download this Guide

Document

 Structure

The <HEAD> section
...Title
...Setting the Base address
...Queries : ISINDEX
...META tags
...<LINK>s

The <BODY> tag
...Document Colours
...Background

Text

 Headings
Fonts
Preformatted text
Special Characters
Character Formatting
...Blink
...Bold
...Italics
...Underline
...Strikethrough
...Superscript
...Subscript
Paragraph formatting
...Blockquote
...Line Breaks
...New Paragraph
...Stop Line Breaks
...Word Break
...Centre text
Miscellaneous
...Addresses
...Use Bigger/Smaller fonts
...Citations
...Code
...Keyboard input
...Sample
...Teletype
...Variables
...XMP

Organisation tools

 Comments

Horizontal lines

Links
...<LINK>s
...within pages
...Image maps

Frames
...Naming and Targeting
Tables
...example tag
...Rows
...Cells
...Captions

Lists
...Definition lists
...Directory Lists
...Menu Lists
...Ordered Lists
...Unordered Lists

Embedding special files

Forms

Images

Sounds

Special Effects - Javascript

 Events
...onAbort
...onBlur
...onChange
...onClick
...onError
...onFocus
...onLoad
...onMouseOver
...onMouseOut
...onReset
...onScroll
...onSelect
...onSubmit
...onUnload
Basic Commands
...Changing the status bar
...Opening a new window
...changing page being viewed

Search Engines

Using Sound

This is a problem area : there is no explicit support for use of sound in the HTML 3.2 specification, even though browsers support WAV, MID, and many other sound formats. Various browsers have their own specific methods for using sound, but these are the most widely usable :
  • Use a <A> link to the sound file. Visitors will have to click on it before it is played.

  • Use the sound as an embedded object : e.g. <embed src="http://www.dot.com/sound.wav" width="140" height="60">. The sound player plug-in will be displayed, and you will need to click the play button to hear it.

  • Try a javascript "onLoad" event embedded within the BODY tag. If Javascript is supported on a visitor's browser, the sound will play once the page is loaded. For example: <BODY onLoad="window.location='sound.wav'"}>
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