Comments on: Basic HTML Tags

By: html

html — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:37:25 +0000

It is nice article about html tags and most using tag in html. For beginner it is difficult to understand and search particular on topic.

By: varul

varul — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:47:11 +0000

I hope so this is the place where I am going to get better things of blogging. Its been really happy to be here. Thank you so much for problogger.com team.

By: fivekitten

fivekitten — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:55:23 +0000

Samstool – just do a google search for “hex codes” There’s tons of websites that list the color codes. I love this website cause it has lots of pretty colors: http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html

And I used this page to learn basic HTML (aside from copying what others did!)
http://www.ironspider.ca/format_text/fontcolor.htm

That w3 website that was mentioned above is great too – you should pay that a visit.

Nice post for beginners like me!

By: samstool

samstool — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:25:12 +0000

i want someone to add the html colors.

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:23:23 +0000

I like it and the background and colors make it easy to reade

By: Karrie

Karrie — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:17:29 +0000

Just found this but both the links to further html stuff have gone – shame! Thanks anyway.

By: Mark Pris

Mark Pris — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:35:57 +0000

Hello, your website is very informative and useful,
I would like to share with you links, send all the questions
on my e-mail.

By: walt

walt — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:32:47 +0000

I have been trying to make my own website that only opens from my computer. just stuff I’m interested in. A launching pad, if you will. the probelm is that it is 350 lines long. I think thats almost 3 pages on one page. its just really long like this first page I’m writing this on. However, when I open my web page, it displays the bottom of the page. how do I get it to display the top page or first line when the page first opens?
thank-you,
walt

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:13:08 +0000

Thanks for the tags :) I love HTML but sometimes forget some of the tags.

By: Andy Harris

Andy Harris — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:00:38 +0000

I have created an online class describing exactly these issues. You can view my examples and lectures online for free with real player or real alternative (an open source alternative to real player that works a lot better.) In these videos I explain why XHTML/CSS makes a lot more sense than HTML, why and are indeed deprecated in XHTML, and how you can get much more control with less effort if you learn standards-compliant design techniques. My audience is general web developers, rather than bloggers per se, but the ideas are the same.

By: Noreen Strehlow

Noreen Strehlow — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:03:19 +0000

I used to teach my 5th graders HTML. I miss teaching in a lab.

By: turfguy

turfguy — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:21:14 +0000

Hi, I’m new to HTML and I have a godaddy account. I am having problems trying to carry out internal linking. Im using the NAME and then the HREF part but each time I do it the link doesnt work. Has anyone got any suggestions?

By: Technosailor » Blog Building Blocks: Achieving Stunning Visual Presentation on Your Blog - Technology, Blogging and Politics

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:27:13 +0000

[...] One of his more recent articles is in the area of basic HTML tags. Darren has taken a very high-level overview of HTML tags which is great for beginners, but it got me thinking about writing my own series on developing visual elements for a blog using standards-based HTML and CSS. What does all that mean? It means that this series is for you if you want to put up a great looking blog. If you’re happy with MySpace then feel free to read but this series may not be for you. [...]

By: Peter Mount

Peter Mount — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:42:24 +0000

Webmonkey is good but a lot of the articles are very old. The tags you describe and the way you describe using them (even the font tag) will all work. But with the use of the font tag as described is inefficient. I know you’ve acknowledged this (and good on you) but it’s worth explaining why it’s inefficient.

This will sound like “double dutch” to a lot of people. People will think that if something works then “what’s wrong with it”. The thing is that the language used to make web pages is changing. We now have XHTML. HTML is a “dead language” in that is is no longer being developed, as XHTML is meant to replace it (and there’s even a new version of XHTML being developed to replace that). The web browsers of today will still recognise HTML 4.0 but in years to come that may not be the case.

Another thing is that it’s so much more efficient to update a web site that uses CSS. If you had a font tag that said for normal paragraph fonts on each page of a web site that had 100 pages then when an update to the style of the paragraph font was needed you would have to go into each and every one of those 100 pages to update evey instance of that font tag. With CSS it’s just a matter of changing an attribute in one style sheet and it’s done. All 100 pages gets updated in an instant.

Have fun

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:58:55 +0000

Also it’s all very well using tags around items you want italicised for title’s sake, but what happens when the Washington Post wants to change all their title references to bold green (for example) – yeah sure they can style the italic tag in CSS, but then it becomes illogical. I still think it’s best to avoid i and b. Still, it doesn’t make much difference on the scheme of things so I’ll leave it there.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:54:54 +0000

Semantic vs formatting – precisely. I am actually quite surprised that b and i are still in the “Presentational Module” (like what??) in XHTML 1.1 – ironic to have a presentation module in a markup language that focuses on semantic markup. Oh well…

By: Eric Gregory

Eric Gregory — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:51:03 +0000

Correction: in my above comment, centered text should be like the following:

Center something:
centered text

That’ll teach me to use copy and paste :p

By: Eric Gregory

Eric Gregory — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:49:42 +0000

Whoa no. This is very outdated information. Here’s how you code your pages if you’re NOT still living in 1997.

Center something:
centered text
(there are better methods with CSS)
Bold: bold text
Bold: italic text

By: dissurion.com » Blog Archive » HTML elements are not tags!

dissurion.com » Blog Archive » HTML elements are not tags! — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:33:59 +0000

[...] I admit I didn’t use the terminology right from the start when I first got introduced to HTML. But then again, I wasn’t blogging about it and teaching it to people. Today I noticed someone just doing that. A popular blog teaches some basic HTML but uses terminology wrong. Unfortunately, because the blog seems to be rather popular a lot of people will also confuse elements with tags. [...]

By: pcunix

pcunix — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:06:57 +0000

Another point: Validate your pages. Most blogging platforms will create correct html code, but the minute you start mucking around with editing your own tags, you run the risk of screwing up (just ask me – I screw up regularly and royally).

There’s a nice “Web Developer ” extension for Firefox that I use extensively, and I validate every single page every time I edit it. Unfortunately I have over 12,000 pages and I only started doing this a year or so ago, so I do have some “bad” pages, but I’m working on it.

You are particularly apt to get bad code from plugins and javascript snippets from other folks. Even Google and YPN have been guilty of that.

But even good software can make mistakes – look at what happened in the previous comments where a strikethrough tag ran amok because the software mishandled it.

See my http://aplawrence.com/foo-web/validating-pages.html for more.