HTML Basics for Beginners
HTML Basics for Beginners
Kamesh Duvvuri
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HTML
Headings:
What we will Learn
Heading tag: <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>
<br> tag
Comment Tag: <!-- -- >
In the last lecture, we learned that the first tag on the web page we made is the HTML tag
which tells the browser that the document is HTML;
<html>
The last tag on the page is the end HTML tag, which tells the browser that the HTML bit
has finished;
</html>
Did you notice the '/' bit which tells the browser that this is the end tag, not the start?
Heading
Today we will learn about heading tag, which looks like <h1> or <h2> or <h3> or <h4>
or <h5> or <h6>.
Let us take an example to understand this tag.
<html>
<head>
<title >My Home Page with a heading</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My Heading</h1>
You write things here...
</body>
</html>
My Heading
You write things here.
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<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<h4>Heading 4</h4>
<h5>Heading 5</h5>
<h6>Heading 6</h6>
<p>This is normal text!</p>
</body>
</html>
Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 3
Heading 4
Heading 5
Heading 6
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A) When I wrote the code, I made two lines, one line contains my name and the other line
contains the name of University. But the output shows two lines one after the other.
So that means, HTML does not interpret the <return> key.
The solution to the above problem is <br> take. <br> tag is also called as blank rule. It
inserts a line.
<html>
<head>
<title >My Home Page with a heading</title>
</head>
<body>
My name is Harshit. <br>
I am studying at University of Suwon
.
</body>
</html>
Now the output will be
My name is Harshit.
I am studying at University of Suwon.
Comments
Q) Why do we need comments?, infact every language supports comments, be it C,
C++ or Java?
Answer) When we write a page with a lot of code, and we come back to it later to wonder
what we did, it can be made easier if we have comments in the document which don't
show up in the browser.
For example
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<html>
<head>
<!-- This is the title of my page
<title>My Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--This is the start of my page! As if I didn't know
that - I did say it was a trivial example!-->
<!--Start of my heading-->
<h1>My Heading - What my page is about.</h1>
<!--End of my heading-->
</body>
So the output is
Today we will discuss about formatting the text on the browser. That is
How to make our text appear as bold, italic or underlined
To set the page color, i.e. background color and Text color
Formatting the text
The following are the tags for bold, underline, italic
<b> </b> for bold
<u> </u> for underline
<i> </i> for italic
Let us look at an example
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to my Home Page</title>
</head>
<body>
My name is <b>Harshit Kumar</b>.<br>
I am </i> at <u>University of Suwon</u>.<br>
My major is <i>computer science</i>
</body>
</html>
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The text color can also be changed, i.e. we can change the background color and text
color.
Write the code below and save as an .html file.
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to my Home Page</title>
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</head>
<body bgcolor="black" text="yellow">
My name is Harshit Kumar
</body>
</html>
The output is
If you put <body bgcolor=black> or
<body bgcolor=#FFE4C4>, then you will get the same effect on the page color, i.e.
background color will be black. The # tells the browser that the number is hexadecimal.
bgcolor="red"
bgcolor="#FF0000"
Similarly, by using the colour name or the code shown in the following table, you will get
the same colour results;
aliceblue
Code=#F0F8FF
antiquewhite
#FAEBD7
aqua
#00FFFF
aquamarine
#7FFFD4
azure
#F0FFFF
beige
#F5F5DC
bisque
#FFE4C4
black
#FFE4C4
blanchedalmond
#FFEBCD
blue
#0000FF
blueviolet
#8A2BE2
brown
#A52A2A
burlywood
#DEB887
cadetblue
#5F9EA0
chartreuse
#7FFF00
chocolate
#D2691E
coral
#FF7F50
cornflowerblue
#6495ED
cornsilk
#FFF8DC
crimson
#DC143C
cyan
#00FFFF
darkblue
#00008B
darkcyan
#008B8B
darkgoldenrod
#B8860B
darkgray
#A9A9A9
darkgray
#A9A9A9
darkkhaki
#BDB76B
darkmagenta
#8B008B
darkolivegreen
#556B2F
darkorange
#FF8C00
darkorchid
#9932CC
darkred
#8B0000
darksalmon
#E9967A
darkseagreen
#8FBC8F
darkslateblue
#483D8B
darkslategray
#2F4F4F
darkturquoise
#00CED1
darkviolet
#9400D3
deeppink
#FF1493
deepskyblue
#00BFFF
dimgray
#696969
dodgerblue
#1E90FF
firebrick
#B22222
floralwhite
#FFFAF0
forestgreen
fuchsia
gainsboro
ghostwhite
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#228B22
#FF00FF
#DCDCDC
#F8F8FF
gold
#FFD700
goldenrod
#DAA520
gray
#808080
green
#008000
greenyellow
#ADFF2F
honeydew
#F0FFF0
hotpink
#FF69B4
indianred
#CD5C5C
indigo
#4B0082
ivory
#FFFFF0
khaki
#F0E68C
lavender
#E6E6FA
lavenderblush
#FFF0F5
lawngreen
#7CFC00
lemonchiffon
#FFFACD
lightblue
#ADD8E6
lightcoral
#F08080
lightcyan
#E0FFFF
lightgoldenrodyellow lightgreen
#FAFAD2
#90EE90
lightgrey
#D3D3D3
lightpink
#FFB6C1
lightsalmon
#FFA07A
lightseagreen
#20B2AA
lightskyblue
#87CEFA
lightslategray
#778899
lightsteelblue
#B0C4DE
lightyellow
#FFFFE0
lime
#00FF00
limegreen
#32CD32
linen
#FAF0E6
magenta
#FF00FF
maroon
#800000
mediumaquamarine mediumblue
#66CDAA
#0000CD
mediumorchid
#BA55D3
mediumpurple
#9370DB
mediumseagreen
#3CB371
mediumslateblue
#7B68EE
mediumspringgreen
#00FA9A
mediumturquoise
#48D1CC
mediumvioletred
#C71585
midnightblue
#191970
mintcream
#F5FFFA
mistyrose
#FFE4E1
moccasin
#FFE4B5
navajowhite
#FFDEAD
navy
#000080
oldlace
#FDF5E6
olive
#808000
olivedrab
#6B8E23
orange
#FFA500
orangered
#FF4500
orchid
#DA70D6
palegoldenrod
#EEE8AA
palegreen
#98FB98
paleturquoise
#AFEEEE
palevioletred
#DB7093
papayawhip
#FFEFD5
peachpuff
#FFDAB9
peru
#CD853F
pink
#FFC0CB
plum
#DDA0DD
powderblue
#B0E0E6
purple
#800080
red
#FF0000
rosybrown
#BC8F8F
royalblue
#4169E1
saddlebrown
#8B4513
salmon
#FA8072
sandybrown
#F4A460
seagreen
#2E8B57
seashell
#FFF5EE
sienna
#A0522D
silver
#C0C0C0
skyblue
#87CEEB
slateblue
slategray
snow
springgreen
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#6A5ACD
#6A5ACD
#FFFAFA
#00FF7F
steelblue
#4682B4
tan
#D2B48C
teal
#008080
thistle
#D8BFD8
tomato
#FF6347
turquoise
#40E0D0
violet
#EE82EE
wheat
#F5DEB3
white
yellow
#FFFFFF
#FFFF00
Today we will learn
Using the Font tag
Align the text
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Font means a specific size and style of the text. Size means the width of the text, and
style means whether the text is Arial, Times New Roman, etc.
Type the following code in notepad and save the file as .html.
<html>
<head>
<title>
Using the Font tag
</title>
</head>
<body>
Here is normal text without any font tag. <br>
<html>
<head>
<title>
Using the Font tag
</title>
</head>
<body>
Here is normal text without any font tag. <br>
<font face="arial" size="4"> This is a text with font type Arial and font size
4</font>
</body>
</html>
</body>
</html>
The output will be
Here is normal text without any font tag.
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You can also specify the color with the font tag. i.e. color is another attribute of the font
tag. For example
Type the following code in notepad and save the file as .html.
<html>
<head>
<title>
Using the Font tag
</title>
</head>
<body>
Here is normal text without any font tag. <br>
<html>
<head>
<title>
Using the Font tag
</title>
</head>
<body>
Here is normal text without any font tag. <br>
<font face="arial" size="4" color=blue> This is a text with font type Arial and
font size 4</font>
</body>
</html>
</body>
</html>
The output will be
Here is normal text without any font tag.
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</html>
The output will be
My name is Harshit Kumar
I am a student of University of Suwon
If there was no <p> tag, then two statements My name is Harshit Kumar and I am a
student of University of Suwon would come one after the other on the same line.
Whereas <p> tag inserted a new line between the two statements, doing some what the
same as <br> tag.
If you notice the output very carefully there is some difference between <p> tag and <br>
tag.
Q) What is the difference between the <p> tag and <br> tag?
A) The difference is <p> tag inserts a double new line between two statements whereas
<br> tag inserts single new line between two statements. Actually <p> tag means
paragraph tag, and <p> tag indicates the browser to start a new paragraph.
Now let us come back to aligning the text
Type the following code and save as .html file.
<html>
<head>
<title>
Using the Align tag
</title>
</head>
<body>
My name is Harshit Kumar
<p align="right">I am a student of University of Suwon</p>
</body>
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</html>
The output is
My name is Harshit Kumar
I am a student of University of Suwon
So, You can see that the second statement is aligned towards the right. Similarly the align
attribute of <p> tag can be used as left or center.
Q) Try the above code with <p align=left> and also with <p align=center>? Show
what the output is?
Today we will learn
Create a Link to new pages using <a href=>.
Writing the text as a List of Items using <UL>, <LI>, <OL>.
Creating a link to a new page mean that you make one web page which contains a link to
another page and when you click on the link, another page opens. For example
Type the following code and save as first.html
<html>
<head>
<title> First Page</title>
</head>
</body>
My name is Harshit Kumar. <br>
I am teaching at Suwon University <br>
To know about my hobbies, <a href="hobby.html">click here</a>
</body>
</html>
Now what you will see in the output is, an underline below Click here and the color will
be blue. This is a link, which links to a new page, and all the links appear as blue color
i.e.
The output will be
My name is Harshit Kumar.
I am teaching at Suwon University
To know about my hobbies click here
When you will left click mouse on the link click here, a new web-page hobby.html
should open. But as such hobby.html is not created. So we need to create this page also.
If clicking on a link displays The link cannot be displayed, then such a link is called as
broken link. A web-site should not contain broken link.
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Now you can type the code below and save as hobby.html, remember that hobby.html
should be saved in the same directory which contains first.html.
<html>
<head>
<title>This is my hobby page</title>
</head>
<body>
<b>My hobbies are</b><br>
<p align="center">Football</p>
<p align="center">Listening Music </p>
<p align="center">Reading</p>
</body>
</html>
After clicking on the click here, a new page hobby.html will open, and the output will
be
My hobbies are
Football
Listening Music
Reading
The <a href=> is also called as anchor tag.
Q) What will happen if the <a> tag is used as follows, and use click on click here
<a href=> click here </a> ?
A) The same page will be refreshed again.
Q) I told you that both the html files i.e. first.html and hobbies.html should be in the
same directory, what if both of them are not in the same directory?
A) The answer to this is relative addressing, which we will discuss in later lecture, but
right now remember the word relative addressing.
I listed above my hobbies; there is a tag which helps in listing. The name of the tag is
<UL> tag. <UL> tag is also known as Un-ordered List tag.
Write the code below which does not use <UL> tag, and save as hobby.html.
<html>
<head>
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Reading
So, now the hobbies football, Listening music, Reading are indented towards the right.
I can further improve upon the hobbies listing.
Q) How can I have a bullet (dark solid circle) before each hobby?
A) There is different tag called as <LI> which is used with the <UL> tag.
Type the code below in notepad and save as hobby.html
<html>
<head>
<title>This is my hobby page</title>
</head>
<body>
<b>My hobbies are</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Football</li>
<li>Listening Music </li>
<li>Reading</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Football
Listening Music
Reading
What I have done, I have replaced the <p> tag with the <li> tag, still keeping the <ul>
tag.
Q) What if I want numbers instead of bullets?
A) For that, I have to replace <UL> with <OL>.
Please type the code below in notepad and save as hobby.html
<html>
<head>
<title>This is my hobby page</title>
</head>
<body>
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Nested Lists
Write the following code and save as .html file
<html>
<head>
<title>Country visit</title>
</head>
<body>
<b>The countries and cities that I have visited are</b><br>
<UL>
<li>Oman</li>
<UL>
<li>Muscat</li>
<li>Salalah</li>
<li>Nizwa</li>
</UL>
<li>South korea</li>
<ul>
<li>Seoul</li>
<li>Suwon</li>
<li>incheon</li>
</Ul>
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</UL>
</body>
</html>
Oman
o
o
o
Muscat
Salalah
Nizwa
South korea
o Seoul
o Suwon
o incheon
Oman and South Korea are countries. Muscat, Salalah, Nizwa are cities in Oman whereas
Seoul, Suwon, Incheon are cities in South Korea.
Today we will learn about
Create an Email link and External link.
Insert graphics.
Link to specific section in another document.
Create an Email link
When you visit a web site, generally at the bottom you see a link for mail to the
creator of the website. The subject of todays lecture is how to create such link. Such a
link which on clicking opens an email client is called as email link.
Please type the following code in notepad and save as .html file.
<html>
<head>
<title>mail</title>
</head>
<body>
My name is Harshit Kumar. <br>
I am studying at University of Suwon <br>
To mail me, Please <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Click here</a>
</body>
</html>
The output will be
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Most of the websites that you visit contain graphics along with text. So graphics
need to be inserted in a web page.
To understand this, you need an image file, please download an image file from the
internet or locate for an image file on your computer. I have got an image file by the
name of asia.gif.
<html>
<head>
<title>mail</title>
</head>
<body>
My name is Harshit Kumar. <br>
I am studying at University of Suwon <br>
Below is the map of Asia<br>
<img src="asia.gif" alt="map of asia">
</body>
</html>
And the output is
My name is Harshit Kumar.
I am studying at University of Suwon
Below is the map of Asia
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</body>
</html>
And type the following code and save as hobbies.html
<html>
<head>
<title>This is my hobby page</title>
</head>
<body>
<b>My hobbies are</b><br>
<a name="music">
<p align="center">Listenin Music</p></a>
<p>
I like listening to music a lot.<br>
I like rock, instrumental music.<br>
My favorites are <br>
<ul>
<li>Michael Jackson</li>
<li>Aerosmith</li>
<li>Savage Garden</li>
<li>Celin Deon</li>
<li>Guns & Roses</li>
<li>Britny Spears</li>
<li>50 Cents</li>
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<li>Richard Marx</li>
<li>Elton John</li>
<li>Bryan Adams</li>
<li>All Saints</li>
<li>Backstreet Boys</li>
<li>Bon Jovi </li>
<li>Eminem</li>
<li>Enrique Iglesias</li>
<li>Eric Clapton</li>
<li>George Michael</li>
<li>Faithless</li>
<li>Queeb</li>
<li>Cher</li>
<li>Janet Jackson</li>
<li>Jennifer Lopez</li>
<li>Jewel</li>
<li>Kylie Minogue</li>
</ul>
</p>
<a name="read">
My favorites are <br>
<ul>
<li>Computer Books</li>
<li>Fiction</li>
<li>Non-fiction</li>
<li>Science</li>
<li>Newspaper</li>
</ul>
<a name="soccer"><p align="center">Soccer</p></a>
<ul>
My favorite players are
<li>David Batty, Leeds United </li>
<li>Marcus Bent, Ipswich Town </li>
<li>Craig Burley, Derby County </li>
<li>Mike Salmon, Ipswich Town </li>
<li>David Seaman, Arsenal </li>
<li>Craig Short, Blackburn Rovers </li>
<li>Dean Windass, Middlesbrough</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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Now when you will click on soccer, hobbies.html will open and scroll down, so that
you can see the details about soccer. Similarly, when you click on music , hobbies.html
will open and if required, page will scroll down, so that you can see the details about
music.
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<li>Cher</li>
<li>Janet Jackson</li>
<li>Jennifer Lopez</li>
<li>Jewel</li>
<li>Kylie Minogue</li>
</ul>
</p>
<a name="read">
My favorites are <br>
<ul>
<li>Computer Books</li>
<li>Fiction</li>
<li>Non-fiction</li>
<li>Science</li>
<li>Newspaper</li>
</ul>
<a name="soccer"><p align="center">Soccer</p></a>
<ul>
My favorite players are
<li>David Batty, Leeds United </li>
<li>Marcus Bent, Ipswich Town </li>
<li>Craig Burley, Derby County </li>
<li>Mike Salmon, Ipswich Town </li>
<li>David Seaman, Arsenal </li>
<li>Craig Short, Blackburn Rovers </li>
<li>Dean Windass, Middlesbrough</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
In this lecture, we will learn about
Using an Image as a Link
Aligning Images
Using an Image as a Link
I am using three images, for my hobby page. Type the following code and save as
.html file.
<html>
<head>
<title> First Page</title>
</head>
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</body>
My name is Harshit Kumar. <br>
I am teaching at Suwon University <br>
My hobbies are <br>
<a href="hobbies.html#soccer"><img src="soccer.gif" alt=soccer></a><br>
<a href="hobbies.html#music"><img src="music.gif" alt=music></a><br>
<a href="hobbies.html#read"><img src="book.gif" alt=book></a><br>
</body>
</html>
The above code is similar to the previous code, but the only difference is instead of text,
now there are images. Earlier clicking on text opens a new page, but now clicking on link
will open a new page.
Aligning Images
With the <img src= > tag, you can specify the width and height of the image i.e.
<img src= width= height= >
<html>
<head>
<title> First Page</title>
</head>
</body>
My name is Harshit Kumar. <br>
I am teaching at Suwon University <br>
My hobbies are <br>
<a href="hobbies.html#soccer"><img src="soccer.gif" alt=soccer width=100
height=100></a><br>
<a href="hobbies.html#music"><img src="music.gif" alt=music width=100
height=100></a><br>
<a href="hobbies.html#read"><img src="book.gif" alt=book width=100
height=100></a><br>
</body>
</html>
The above code will reduce the size of the image, and make the web page look more
sensible.
You have some flexibility when displaying images. You can have images separated from
text and aligned to the left or right or centered. Or you can have an image aligned with
text. Try several possibilities to see how your information looks best.
You can align images to the top or center of a paragraph using the ALIGN= attributes
TOP and MIDDLE. i.e.
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Soccer
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MusicMusic
Book
The output shows that, the text is at the bottom of the image, whereas it looks better to be
text in the middle of the image or at the top of the image.
Let us take another example, and see how text and image text and image look with align
attribute. We have used align=middle.
<html>
<head>
<title> First Page</title>
</head>
</body>
My name is Harshit Kumar. <br>
I am teaching at Suwon University <br>
My hobbies are <br>
<a href="hobbies.html#soccer"><img src="soccer.gif" alt=soccer width=100
height=100
align=middle></a>Soccer<br>
<a href="hobbies.html#music"><img src="music.gif" alt=music width=100
height=100 align=middle></a>Music<br>
<a href="hobbies.html#read"><img src="book.gif" alt=book width=100
height=100 align=middle></a>Book<br>
</body>
</html>
The output can be seen on the browser.
In this lecture, we will learn about
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Tables are very useful while creating HTML pages; especially tables solve the alignment
problem. A table tag has headings where you explain what the columns/rows include,
rows for information, and cells for each item. In the following table, the first two rows
contain the heading information, each detail row explains an HTML table tag, and each
cell contains a paired tag or an explanation of the tag's function.
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Table Elements
Element
Description
<TABLE> ...
</TABLE>
<CAPTION> ...
</CAPTION>
defines the caption for the title of the table. The default position of
the title is centered at the top of the table. The attribute
ALIGN=BOTTOM can be used to position the caption below the
table.
NOTE: Any kind of markup tag can be used in the caption.
defines a table header cell. By default the text in this cell is bold and
centered. Table header cells may contain other attributes to
determine the characteristics of the cell and/or its contents.
defines a table data cell. By default the text in this cell is aligned left
and centered vertically. Table data cells may contain other attributes
to determine the characteristics of the cell and/or its contents.
<html>
<head>
<title> Using Table Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
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<table border=1>
<caption> Time Table for Mar-June 2005</caption>
<tr>
<th></th>
<th>Monday</th>
<th>Tuesday</th>
<th>Wednesday</th>
<th>Thrusday</th>
<th>Friday</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9:30-10:20</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td><font color="blue">109</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10:30-11:20</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td><font color="blue">109</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:30-12:20</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td><font color="blue">109</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12:30-1:20</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td><font color="blue">312</font></td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
</tr>
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<td>1:30-2:20</td>
<td>-</td>
<td><font color="blue">306</font></td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2:30-3:20</td>
<td>-</td>
<td><font color="blue">306</font></td>
<td>-</td>
<td><font color="blue">309</font></td>
<td>-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3:30-4:20</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td><font color="blue">309</font></td>
<td>-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4:30-5:20</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td><font color="blue">309</font></td>
<td>-</td>
</tr>
<table>
</body>
</html>
Time Table for Mar-June 2005
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thrusday Friday
9:30-10:20 109
10:30-11:20 -
109
11:30-12:20 -
109
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12:30-1:20 -
312
1:30-2:20
306
2:30-3:20
306
309
3:30-4:20
309
4:30-5:20
309
Kumar.
The output is
My name is Harshit Kumar.
Although I gave so many spaces between Harhsit and Kumar, still the output shows
only one space.
This means that browser shrink the spaces, so to insert spaces, we need .
Type the following code in notepad
<html>
<head>
<title>Using nbsp </title>
</head>
<body>
My name is Kamesh Duvvuri.
</body>
Dr. Kamesh Duvvuri
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</html>
The output is
My name is Kamesh
Duvvuri
Note that there is no actual body coding involved when creating frames.
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If we would like to add a third column, we would need to add a third size definition in the
cols (so that all would add up to 100%) and another frame tag inside the frameset.
In the above case we had a vertical menu bar; we can also have a horizontal menu bar.
For that we have to use rows instead of cols. For example
<frameset rows="15%,85%">
<frame src="menu_bar.htm" name="sidemenu">
<frame src="main.htm" name="mainwindow">
</frameset>
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So, when you click on Course Contents, your course content opens, when you click on
Grading policy, the page corresponding to grading policy i.e. ethics.html opens and
same is the case with other links.
Q How come when you click on the menu option, the page opens in the second frame?
A) This is possible through the target attribute of anchor tag.
Notice two things, when I created frames, I gave a name to each frame.
<html>
<head>
<title>Internet Programming</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="20%,80%">
<frame name="lp" src="leftpane.html">
<frame name="rp" src="ip.html">
</frameset>
</html>
So, the name of frame on the left is lp, and the name of frame on the right is rp.
If I dont specify target attribute in the anchor tag, then on clicking the menu option, the
page will open in the first frame on the left, and nothing will open in the second frame.
So, I specify where I want the page to open.
There are other possibilities with the target attribute of anchor tag.
- target="_blank" - link is loaded into a new blank browser window (and your
old window stays open).
- target="_self" - link is loaded into frame that link was clicked in. (this is the
default selection. Leave it out if you so please.)
- target="_top" - link is loaded into current full browser window, and all frames
disappear, leaving the new linked page to occupy the entire window.
Special attributes of
<frame>
Q) Can I change the size of the frame using my mouse, I mean taking my mouse over the
vertical bar, then left click and dragging it to the left or right?
A) Yes
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<html>
<head>
<title>Internet Programming</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="20%,80%">
<frame name="lp" src="leftpane.html" noresize>
<frame name="rp" src="ip.html">
</frameset>
</html>
The other useful attribute is scrolling. Say you always want a scrollbar to appear in the
main window. Add scrolling="yes". Want there to never be a scrollbar? Add
scrolling="no".
To understand more about scrolling, type the following code
<html>
<head>
<title>Internet Programming</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="20%,80%">
<frame name="lp" src="leftpane.html">
<frame name="rp" src="ip.html" scrolling="yes">
</frameset>
</html>
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Let us discuss move advanced frames now, where we will see how to
divide the browser window into more than two frames. Take an example
first
<frameset cols="15%,85%">
<frameset rows="20%,80%">
<frame src="timetable.html">
<frame src="hobbies.html" name="sidemenu">
</frameset>
<frame src="first.html" name="mainwindow">
</frameset>
In the above code, browser window is divided into two frames vertically, first frame is
15% of the total size of the browser, and the second frame is 85% of the total size of the
browser. Then again the first frame is divided into two more frames, i.e. the frame which
occupied 15% is again divided into two frames horizontally, and the ratio is 20% and
80%.
<frameset rows="50%,50%">
<frameset cols="50%,50%">
<frame>
<frame>
</frameset>
<frameset cols="50%,50%">
<frame>
<frame>
</frameset>
The above code will divide the browser window into four frames, each of equal size.
<frameset cols="33%,33%,33%">
<frame>
<frame>
<frame>
</frameset>
The above code will divide the browser window vertically into three frames each
occupying 33% of the total browser window size.
<frameset rows="25%,50%,25%">
<frame>
<frame>
<frame>
</frameset>
The above code will divide the browser window horizontally into three frame, first frame
occupies the 25% of the total browser window, second frame occupies the 50% of the
total browser window, and third frame occupies the 25% of the total browser window.
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Let us now discuss about form elements i.e. input box, list box, check box etc, which are
used for accepting inputs from the user and we will come back to <form> tag latter.
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The above box is called as a text box; we want a text box like this in our HTML form.
For this, we have a tag
<input type=text name=u_name>
Let us see how it works, type the following code in notepad and save as a html file.
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Form tag-text box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="">
Enter your name: <input type="text" name="u_name">
</form>
</body>
</html>
The output will be
Enter your name:
There is another attribute that can be used with <input type=text>, and it is value.
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Form tag-text box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="">
Enter your name: <input type="text" name="u_name"
value="Harshit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
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There are two more attributes of the <input> tag, size and maxlength. Size attribute
defines the initial width of the control, and maxlength attribute specifies the maximum
number of character a user can enter.
For example:
Type the following code in notepad and save as .html
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Form tag-text box</title>
</head>
<body>
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All the input tag has a common name, i.e. name=fruit. You can give any name,
but name should be common for all the checkboxes
If you think that most people like apples, you can pre-select it, some thing like this.
<input type="checkbox" name="fruits" value=apple checked> Apples<br>
Type the following code,
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Form tag-text box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="">
Which fruit do you like? <br>
<input type="checkbox" name="fruit" value="apple"
checked> Apple <br>
<input type="checkbox" name="fruit" value="Mango">
mango <br>
<input type="checkbox" name="fruit" value="Orange">
Orange <br>
</form>
</body>
</html>
And the output is
Which fruit do you like?
Apple
mango
Orange
Radio buttons are sets of circle-like selectors in which the user may only make one
choice. The only difference between radio button and check box is number of selections.
With checkbox user can select more than one option but with the radio button, use can
only select one option.
The above code with radio button is like this.
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Form tag-text box</title>
</head>
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<body>
<form method="post" action="">
Which fruit do you like? <br>
<input type="radio" name="fruit" value="apple"> Apple
<br>
<input type="radio" name="fruit" value="Mango"> mango
<br>
<input type="radio" name="fruit" value="Orange">
Orange <br>
</form>
</body>
</html>
The output is
Which fruit do you like?
Apple
mango
Orange
Notice that
Type=radio
All the input tag has a common name radio.
We will discuss later on about type=image/button/submit/hidden
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Anything you include between the opening and closing textarea tags will appear in the
textarea box.
The <select> element works a lot like a radio button, except in that it used a cool drop
down box. It also has a closing tag, </select>. Choices for the drop down box are
created by using <option> tags.
<select name="fav">
<option value="apples">apples</option>
<option value="oranges">oranges</option>
<option value="bananas">bananas</option>
</select>
Now let us put all this into one form, and then complete this lecture.
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Form tag-text box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="">
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<select name="fav">
<option value="apples">apples</option>
<option value="oranges">oranges</option>
<option value="bananas">bananas</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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So, user will provide input, but after providing input he has to submit the input, for
submitting input, we need a button.
So, next topic is How to make a button in HTML page. Very simple, tag for that is
<input type = submit name=sub_b >
Insert the line in the above code, and the output will be
Enter your name:
Enter your password:
Write a short note about urself
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If you click on the submit button, all the inputs will be passed to the page specified in
action attribute of form tag. This topic we will discuss later when we will discuss ASP.
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In previous lecture, you learned the BODY tag. The BODY tag has many attributes... here are
the most useful ones...
BACKGROUND="location_of_image"
BGCOLOR="name of color"
LINK="name of color"
default to blue.)
VLINK="name of color"
TEXT="name of color"
- Code for Links the User has Already Visited (if left
blank, most browsers default to purple.)
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Item 4
Item 5
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TD>Item 1</TD>
<TD ROWSPAN=2>Item 2</TD>
<TD>Item 3</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Item 4</TD> <TD>Item 5</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
Item 1
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TD ROWSPAN=2>Item 1</TD>
<TD>Item 2</TD> <TD>Item 3</TD> <TD>Item 4</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Item 5</TD> <TD>Item 6</TD> <TD>Item 7</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
DEMONSTRATION OF COLSPAN
Item 1 Item 2
Item 3 Item 4 Item 5
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TD>Item 1</TD>
<TD COLSPAN=2>Item 2</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Item 3</TD> <TD>Item 4</TD> <TD>Item 5</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TH>Head1</TH> <TH>Head2</TH> <TH>Head3</TH>
</TR>
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<TR>
<TD>A</TD> <TD>B</TD> <TD>C</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>D</TD> <TD>E</TD> <TD>F</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
F G H
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Head1</TH>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Head2</TH>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>A</TD> <TD>B</TD> <TD>C</TD> <TD>D</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>E</TD> <TD>F</TD> <TD>G</TD> <TD>H</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
Head2
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Head1</TH>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Head2</TH>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>Head 3</TH> <TH>Head 4</TH>
<TH>Head 5</TH> <TH>Head 6</TH>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>A</TD> <TD>B</TD> <TD>C</TD> <TD>D</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>E</TD> <TD>F</TD> <TD>G</TD> <TD>H</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
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<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TD>
<TH ROWSPAN=2></TH>
<TH COLSPAN=2>Average</TH>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><TH>Height</TH><TH>Weight</TH></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH ROWSPAN=2>Gender</TH>
<TH>Males</TH><TD>1.9</TD><TD>0.003</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH>Females</TH><TD>1.7</TD><TD>0.002</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
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C D
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN=center ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2>A</TD>
<TD>1</TD>
<TD>2</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>3</TD>
<TD>4</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN=center ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2>C</TD>
<TD ALIGN=center ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2>D</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
</TR>
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<TR>
3</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
</TR>
</TABLE>
Cellpadding tag is used to create space between the text inside your
table and the border surrounding the text.
A B C
D E F
Cellspacing tag is used to create space between different cells
within your table.
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February
March
Another cell,
cell 3
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
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<TH>January</TH>
<TH>February</TH>
<TH>March</TH>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>This is cell 1</TD>
<TD>Cell 2</TD>
<TD>Another cell,<br> cell 3</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Cell 4</TD>
<TD>and now this<br>is cell 5</TD>
<TD>Cell 6</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
ALIGN=LEFT|RIGHT|CENTER
can be applied to individual cells or whole ROWs
January
February
March
Cell 2
Another cell,
cell 3
default,
aligned left
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TH>January</TH>
<TH>February</TH>
<TH>March</TH>
</TR>
<TR ALIGN=center>
<TD>all aligned center</TD>
<TD>Cell 2</TD>
<TD>Another cell,<br> cell 3</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN=right>aligned right</TD>
<TD ALIGN=center>aligned to center</TD>
<TD>default,<br>aligned left</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
VALIGN=TOP|BOTTOM|MIDDLE
can be applied to individual cells or whole ROWs
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January
February
March
Cell 3
default alignment,
aligned to the bottom center
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
<TH>January</TH>
<TH>February</TH>
<TH>March</TH>
</TR>
<TR VALIGN=top>
<TD>all aligned to top</TD>
<TD>and now this<br>is cell 2</TD>
<TD>Cell 3</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN=top>aligned to the top</TD>
<TD VALIGN=bottom>aligned to the bottom</TD>
<TD>default alignment,<br>center</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
Meta Tag
The <META> tag can be used for a few different purposes. META tag are used in search
engines. When a search engine finds your page, it adds your page to the searchable
database with some information. The information that it adds is actually information
contained in meta tag.
<meta name="description" content="description of page goes here">
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords go here">
Meta tags are not visible in the web page unless the user selects to 'view source'.
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Meta Tags </title>
<meta name="description" content="Joe's Collection of Cool Sound files
for you to use in your home page!">
<meta name="keywords" content="music sounds midi wav joe collection">
</head>
<body>
Page Goes Here
</body>
</html>
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