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Tags
META tags are a component of the invisible part of your HTML page — all that stuff between the <head> </head> tags. So far, you probably haven't seen much beyond the <title> tag in there, but now I'll show you a few more. None of these tags will actually change how your page looks, they are purely for search engine's use and to provide some additional information about your pages.
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The Tag
The font tag was brought in early in HTML’s life to allow designers to change the size, typeface and colour of their text. It proceeded to do more harm than good — for all sorts of reasons — but mainly because it is a hugely inefficient way to format text. CSS text formatting is vastly superior, but knowledge of these old-style techniques is still useful.
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HTML Tag Reference
There are quite a lot of tags in HTML, and these tags are constantly being jostled about when new versions are released. Below is a current list of all the HTML 4.01-compliant tags. If you want to learn more about any one of these tags, try clicking on it and you'll be whisked away to a tutorial in one of HTMLSource's darker corners.
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Using the LowSrc command
Why Would I Do This? Because it helps your viewer a great deal. Plus it looks cool. You see, if you have a huge image that is going to come in, that takes time. The color picture above is 56K. However, the black and white picture is only 3K. It displayed in a heartbeat. The color pic just wiped over top of it. Yes, using the HEIGHT and WIDTH commands will create a box where the picture will go, and the ALT command will inform the viewer of what is going in, but by using this LOWSRC c
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Tab Index commands
As the Web gets bigger and bigger, the browsers become smarter and the commands get more and more complex. After one of my previous DHTML tutorials, I received a letter from a reader who asked why I had begun writing my tutorials in a foreign language. "Don't I know it," I wrote back, "You only have to read it. I have to learn it well enough to be able to write about it." Today is a good day because we're staying on the easy side of things. This is just about as simple as a tutorial gets.
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Fieldset and Legend
There are a lot of commands that are proprietary to Internet Explorer. The two I'll discuss here fall under that umbrella. But, unlike many of those proprietary commands, these, because of placement, are basically ignored by Netscape browsers. They are what I call "ignored" commands. On one browser they do a trick, on the other they do nothing, but also don't hurt anything either. The two commands in this tutorial are both ignored commands.
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HTML Declaration statements
If you've made your way through the HTML Goodies site, then you probably have looked at the source of some of my documents. I know some of you are looking because every now and again, I get a letter asking what that strange, cryptic command right at the top stands for. Basically it's declaring what version of HTML the browser is to use when reading this document. It also tells the viewer, if they care to look. It's long, but rather easy to understand. Here's what it means: * !DOCTYPE
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HEAD commands
Try this for fun. Without telling the people what you are doing, ask a few of your friends what the commands on an HTML document are for. I'll bet you get widely differing answers. I received a letter from a person who really chewed me out for not involving the HEAD commands in the HTML Goodies Primers. I asked why this struck such a chord with her and she answered that the commands have to be in the document for it work correctly. "No, they don't," I replied. "Yes, they do," she replied
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Text commands
These 40 commands have been listed in the Goodies HTML Reference since it was posted, but they're way at the end, and tough to find. So, in my continuing effort to continue writing introductory material, I thought I'd throw this little deal together. I've made links to as many other pages as cover these commands in greater detail.
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