Use the href attribute to specify the URL of the target of the link. Its value is any valid document URL, absolute or relative, including a fragment identifier or a JavaScript code fragment. If the user selects the contents of the <a> tag, the browser will retrieve and display the document… Continue reading >>

HTML authors use the <a> tag most commonly with its href attribute to create a hypertext link, or hyperlink, for short, to another place in the same document or to another document. In these cases, the current document is the source of the link; the value of the href attribute, a URL, is the… Continue reading >>

A fundamental feature of hypertext is that you can hyperlink documents; you can point to another place inside the current document, inside another document in the local collection, or inside a document anywhere on the Internet. The documents thereby become an intricately woven web of information. Get the name analogy now? The target document… Continue reading >>

There are ten physical styles provided by the current HTML standard, including bold, italic, monospaced, underlined, and strike-through text. In addition, the modern browsers support blinking, larger, smaller, superscript, and subscript text. All physical style tags require an ending tag.

It takes discipline to use the content-based styles, since it is easier to simply think of how your text should look, not necessarily what it may also mean. Once you get started using content-based styles, your documents will be more consistent and better lend themselves to automated searching and content compilation.

HTML offers a number of tags that change the appearance of text. In general, these tags can be grouped into two flavors: content-based styles and physical styles.

In addition, the W3C has put forth a draft for a new standard way in which HTML authors may control the look and layout of their document… Continue reading >>