Programming Languages
Pretty URLs (How to) part 2
Fri, 05/02/2008 - 06:43 — Ralph van den BergPretty URLs are increasingly popular. Not only are huge website businesses implementing them, but smalltime web designers are equally striving for that good look in the address bar in your explorer. This article is a follow up based on the comments of my previous story Pretty URLs (How to). I wasn’t planning on this sequel, that’s why part 1 doesn’t say “Part 1”.
The Word Break Tag
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 15:27 — kenOpening tag : <WBR>
Closing tag: -
Purpose:
The Word Break tag is used to specify where a word can be broken.
Attributes:
None.
Example:
I am watching tele<WBR>vision.
Related Tags:
-
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The Variable Tag
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 15:21 — kenOpening tag : <VAR>
Closing tag: </VAR>
Purpose:
The Variable tag simply highlights text that you define as a variable. Normally this is simply put in italics.
Attributes:
None.
Example:
<Var>Variable</Var>
Related Tags:
-
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The Underline Tag
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 15:16 — kenOpening tag : <U>
Closing tag: </U>
Purpose:
The Underline tag, underlines text within the tags.
Attributes:
None.
Example:
<U>Web Guru Guide.com</U>
Related Tags:
<B></B> - Bold Tag.
<Basefont></Basefont> - Basefont Tag.
<Big></Big> - Big Tag.
The Table-Row Tag
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 14:58 — kenOpening tag : <TR>
Closing tag: </TR>
Purpose:
Defines a cell in a table - used alongside the TR tag to layout a table.
Attributes:
Align=alignment
- Defines the horizontal alignment of the contents of the cell. Options are LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER or JUSTIFY.
Background=url
- Specifies the url of an image to use as the background of a cell.
Bgcolor=color
- Specifies a color for the cell.
Bordercolor=color
- Specifies the color of the border of the cell.
Bordercolordark=color
The Title Tag
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 14:52 — kenOpening tag : <TITLE>
Closing tag: </TITLE>
Purpose:
The title tags applies a title to a webpage. The title appears on the title of the browser window, and is used as a factor by search engine spiders. The title tags have to appear within the header section of the site.
Attributes:
Dir=direction
- Useful for languages which should be read from right to left.
Lang=language
- Specifies the language of the title text.
Example:
<Head>
<Title>Webguruguide.com</Title>
</Head>
The Textarea Tag
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 14:43 — kenOpening tag : <Textarea>
Closing tag: </Textarea>
Purpose:
A textarea is used on a form to collect multiple lines of text from a user.
Attributes:
Accesskey=char
- Sets a shortcut key to access the field. On windows a user would press ALT and the shortcut key to jump to the textarea field.
Cols=#
- Sets the number of columns in the textarea.
Disabled
- Prevents the field from being filled in.
Name=name
- Provides a name for the textarea, which is then used to pass the contents to a further field.
The Table-Data Tag
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 14:26 — kenOpening tag : <TD>
Closing tag: </TD>
Purpose:
Defines a cell in a table - used alongside the TR tag to layout a table.
Attributes:
Abbr=string
- Gives a shortened version of the cells contents, in case the contents can't fit into the cell, or can't be displayed.
Absheight=#
- Specifies the absolute height of the cell in pixels.
Abswidth=#
- Specifies the absolute width of a cell in pixels.
Align=alignment
- Defines the horizontal alignment of the contents of the cell. Options are LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER or JUSTIFY.
The Table Tag
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 13:41 — kenOpening tag : <TABLE>
Closing tag: </TABLE>
Purpose:
The table tag is used to create a table - i.e. a spreadsheet like structure with a specified number of columns and rows. Tables are declared using the Table tag, and then columns and rows are later added using 'TD' and 'TR' tags respectively. Tables have often been used as an easy way of laying out your website, for positioning different parts of the page. However, we strongly advise against this, as it is better to deal with layout issues by using a stylesheet.
Attributes:
The Superscript Tag
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 12:56 — kenOpening tag : <Sup>
Closing tag: </Sup>
Purpose:
The Superscript tag allows the text inside to appear as superscript - normally in a smaller font set slightly above the text line.
Attributes:
Class=class
- Formats the style of the text according to the specified tag.
Dir=direction
- Useful for languages that should be read from right to left.
Event=Javascript
- Allows javascript to run after an event associated with the tag.
Id=name
