tag was widely used for monospace text in a document in earlier HTML versions, but it is not supported in HTML5. Note There are many different monospace fonts. Most browsers use Courier (or a variant) unless you specify otherwise. On page 40, you will learn how to specify a plain text font in Internet Explorer by changing the setting in the browser that controls the font used for monospace. tag, which stands for “preformatted.” The tag not only displays the text in monospace, but also preserves all the spaces and line breaks that the Web browser would usually ignore, so the text will look very similar to the original. tag can also come in handy when text that you copied and pasted from another source contains a lot of line and paragraph breaks. You could manually enter a for every paragraph break, but that is pretty labor intensive for a large file with a lot of breaks. Using the
tag is a shortcut. One common use for the tag is in poetry archives, for example, where line breaks and spacing add meaning to the poems. In this exercise, you will add monospaced text to an existing page, and you will create a new page consisting of a poem and an ASCII graphic. SET UP Use the instructions.htm, poem.htm, and poemtext.txt files in the practice file folder for this topic. (These practice files are located in the Documents\Microsoft Press\HTML5 SBS\03Format\UsingMonospace folder.) Open the instructions file in Notepad and Internet Explorer. tags. 1. Click in the Login boxpremium customer
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tags either inside or outside the tags, as long as you remember the “first-in, last-out” rule consistently. For example, you could either write customer customer customer . Improperly nested codes often render properly in HTML, but not in XHTML.”The Gardener” by Robert Louis Stevenson tag to the poem title within the section. The Gardener tag to the attribution. by Robert Louis Stevenson tag you learned about earlier in the chapter would be superfluous here. Avoid using tags for their own sake; this makes your code needlessly bloated. tag to the rest of the poem. The gardener does not love to talk, He makes me keep the gravel walk; And when he puts his tools away, He locks the door and takes the key. ... Well now, and while the summer stays, To profit by these garden days, O how much wiser you would be To play at Indian wars with me! tag does exactly that. And don’t feel constrained about using it; you can use for any text that you want to indent, not just quotations. tag has a cite ”URL” attribute, but most browsers don’t do anything with it. If you happen to know the URL for the source you are citing, it is good practice to include it in the tag for browsers that do support the attribute, and as an aid to anyone who might be viewing or editing your raw HTML code later. Note There is also a tag, which is used for formatting inline quotations. Its only functionality is to place quotation marks around the text that it encloses. Most people don’t use this tag because it is much easier to simply type the quotation marks. tag. Brief Biography from Answers.com: tag:
Stevenson was one of the most-read adventure novelists of the late 1800s. Among his most popular books were Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Treasure Island (1883). The latter book features Stevenson’s famous crafty pirate Long John Silver. Stevenson also published a much-loved book of poems, A Child’s Garden of Verse (1885). Having suffered from tuberculosis for much of his life, Stevenson spent many years travelling in search of a climate that would suit his illness. He finally settled in Samoa, where he died in 1894 and is buried.
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tags around the outside of them. tag. through (largest to smallest). ●● When one heading immediately follows another as a subheading, you might want so that screen readers and outlines show them as a single unit. ●● To make text bold, use the tag; to italicize it, use the tag. ●● The tag for superscript is ; the tag for subscript is . ●● Monospaced text uses a font whose characters all occupy the same amount of hori-, , or tag. HTML5 no longer supports the obsolete code for monospaced text. ●● By default, a Web browser strips out any extra spaces and ignores paragraph breaks tag). To force the browser to render spaces and line breaks in text, enclose that text in a
tag. ●● To set off a block quotation, use the tag. The tag can take a paragraph with
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, which stands for ordered list. For a bulleted list, the tag is , which stands for unordered list. Each numbered or bulleted item within the list is tagged , for list item. You start the list with the opening or tag, enclose each list item with and tags, and then end the list with the closing or tag. Here’s the numbered list from the previous example, this time using the proper tags: Click in the Login box Type premium Click in the Password box Type customer tag had been placed on the same line as the first item, it would not have made any difference. tags. Here’s an example: Bring in Take out Feed the Stop the the trash dogs newspaper delivery tag) is placed within one of the tags within the numbered list. Thursday: Do Algebra homework Friday: Housesit for neighbors: Bring in the mail Take out the trash Feed the dogs Stop the newspaper delivery Saturday: Wash car or tag. For example, to create a bulleted list that uses the square bullet character, start the list off this way: tag, where n is the starting number. For example: if you want to change the numbering for one item only. For example, to force a particular list item to be numbered with a 5 (or in a list with Roman numerals, a V), insert the value ”n” attribute, as shown here: Yellow Necrotic spots White powder Light and dark green areas Holes or chewed areas Yellow Wet soil Low fertility Root rot pathogens Roots cut or damaged Nematodes Yellow Wet soil Low fertility Root rot pathogens Roots cut or damaged Nematodes and tags, which stands for definition list. Each word to be defined is contained in a (definition term) tag, and the definition paragraphs are in (definition description) tags. Here’s the code for the example just shown: Fungus A primitive, non-vascular, non-photosynthetic form of plant life. Examples include mildews, molds, and mushrooms. Nematode A microscopic roundworm that lives in the soil. There are both harmful and beneficial nematodes. Harmful ones take their toll on the roots of the plant. tags, but you should get into the habit of using them anyway. XHTML requires them.Gardening Terms Here are some useful gardening terms:
Acid Soil Soil that is lower than 7.0 pH. Acidity is measured by the amount of calcium in the soil. The opposite of acidic soil is alkaline soil. Deciduous A tree or plant that loses its leaves at the end of the growing season, such as a maple tree. Fungus A primitive, non-vascular, non-photosynthetic form of plant life. Examples include mildews, molds, and mushrooms. Nematode A microscopic roundworm that lives in the soil. There are both harmful and beneficial nematodes. Harmful ones take their toll on the roots of the plant. Copyright © 2012 The Garden Company™
Hyacinths Crocuses Sampson & Company All-Natural Pesticide Vickers and Vickers Fertilizer Sticks Appleton Acres Big Sack of Bulbs, Tulips Jackson and Perkins Climbing Rosebushes Easton Create-Your-Own Paving Stones Kit Appleton Acres Big Sack of Bulbs, Daffodils Appleton Acres Big Sack of Bulbs, Hyacinths Appleton Acres Big Sack of Bulbs, Crocuses Hawthorne Hills Hosta, 3-Pack Sampson & Company All-Natural Herbicide tag for each link, although it’s tedious to do so. For example, to make an individual hyperlink magenta, use the following: Diagnosing Foliage Problems tag, that setting will override any style sheet settings. In this exercise, you will create an external style sheet and link a Web page to it. SET UP Use the index.htm file in the practice folder for this topic. This file is located in the Documents\Microsoft Press\HTML5 SBS\06Styles\CreatingExternal folder. OPEN the index file in Notepad and in Internet Explorer. tag that sets the table height at exactly 500 pixels. tag for any cell within that column. You can use the same method you used for the tag in the preceding section, as shown in the following: and tags and all width-related style rules from the style sheet, and then start over. In this exercise, you will set specific widths for each column in a table. SET UP Be sure to use the practice files provided specifically for this exercise, and not earlier versions. Use the products.htm file in the practice file folder for this topic. This file is located in the Documents\Microsoft Press\HTML5 SBS\12Tables\SettingWidth folder. Open the products file in Notepad and in Internet Explorer. Item # Name Price In Stock? Item # Name Price In Stock? Item # Name Price In Stock? Survey Results Age 12 to 25 26 to 40 Over 40 "What is your dream vacation destination?" Disneyworld 25% 50% 25% Las Vegas 25% 50% 25% Europe 25% 50% 25%
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tag. Enclose each row in a tag, and enclose tag. ● You can specify table size in either pixels or as a percentage of the page width. Use. ● You can also set width by using a style rule like this: . ● You can specify the width of each cell, either in percentages or pixels like this: or . ● To merge (span) multiple cells, place the colspan or rowspan attribute in the . ● You can use tables as containers to facilitate page layout. You can place all or part tag or with styles, either applied to the individual table or placed in an internal or external cascading style sheet. This chapter shows both methods, but the style method is the more modern and reliable one, because it produces consistent results across all browsers. tag, as shown in the following code: tag: and tags. To review: ● The border-width attribute controls the thickness of the border. Specify a value in tag or a style rule) or to individual cells (by using the tags). You can apply them to individual instances within the opening tags themselves, you can create rules in the tag like this: Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3 Cell 4
Product Listing (Partial) Item # Name Price In Stock? tag because technically a row has no borders; it only has cells, which in turn have borders. Therefore, you must apply the border setting separately to each cell in the row. Item # Name Price In Stock? Note: In-stock items are available for pick-up or delivery. Please visit our store for special sale prices on some items. CH348471 Sampson & Company All-Natural Pesticide $14.99 Yes tag from the second table row and insert it into every other row (the fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth rows). CH543295 Vickers and Vickers Fertilizer Sticks $5.98 Yes CH548571 Appleton Acres Big Sack of Bulbs, Daffodils $22.50 Yes CH548573 Appleton Acres Big Sack of Bulbs, Crocuses $22.50 No CH548577 Easton Create-Your-Own Paving Stones Kit $32.99 Yes Item # Name Price In Stock? tag. (The cellpadding attribute does not work with individual row and cell tags.) tag is just a container for cells, and only tagged cells (or an entire table) can have padding. tag. For an individual cell, set the padding by using a style, like this: . ● Spacing is the amount of space between the outside of an element and an adjacent tag. ● Alignment is the placement of the content within the cell. For vertical alignment,
