HTML guide
Preamble
This guide is intended for those who are creating or editing texts which will be presented on the web, and focuses on useful practices for creating good pages within the context of a database-managed web site, more specifically on any ActionApps-based web-site built by this author.
We concentrate on what goes on within the <body> tag and only briefly touch on other aspects of page code. We look at how good, clean, page-code is written, and along the way hope to clarify why it's worth getting it right. (Too much too soon? Get some basic orientation.)
These pages break down into two broad areas :
and on the way we look at some specific topics :
- HTML & XHTML
- Paragraphs
- Tags, elements and attributes
- Anchors (links)
- Comments
- Headings
- Phrase elements
- Quotation marks
- Lists and Definition lists
- Contents lists
- Footnotes
- Tables
- Boxes
- Source code
- Numbering
- Structure
and provide some tools and references :
