Unit - I Understanding Internet Basics: Course Material - Lecture Notes

Course material –Lecture Notes
Unit –I
Understanding Internet Basics
You can program for the Web, using your skills as a Visual Basic programmer, no matter what your level of
experience with Internet technology. If you are new to the Internet or unfamiliar with its technology, Visual
Basic allows you to quickly and easily produce functional applications. If you are more experienced with
Internet technology, you can work at a more advanced level.
From one perspective, Internet technology simply provides another area for your development efforts. When
you deploy Internet applications on the Web, you may go about it differently — incorporating HTML pages
with your Visual Basic code, providing security features, and so on — but you're still calling methods, setting
properties, and handling events. In this way, all of your knowledge as a Visual Basic developer can be carried
into the Internet arena.
From another perspective, applying Internet technology enables you to extend your development skills in
exciting new ways. For example, writing Visual Basic code that manipulates HTML pages allows you to
decrease deployment costs, reduce client maintenance problems, and reach the broad audience of the Internet.
Internet Clients and Servers
A common way to think about Internet development is in terms of client/server relationships. In this case, the
client is the browser, and the server is the Web server. Most interactions on the Internet or an intranet can be
thought of in terms of requests and responses. The browser makes a request to the Web server (usually to
display a page the user wants to see) and the Web server returns a response (usually an HTML page, an
element, or an image) to the browser.
Internet vs. Intranet
The Internet encompasses two categories: the Internet and the intranet. The Internet is a global, distributed
network of computers operating on a protocol called TCP/IP. An intranet is also a network of computers
operating on the TCP/IP protocol, but it is not global. Generally, intranets are restricted to a particular set of
users and are not accessible by the outside world. For example, many corporations use a corporate intranet to
provide information to their employees, and run another Internet site for external users. Users within the
company can access both the intranet sites and the Internet, but users outside the company can access only the
company's Internet sites.
HTML Pages
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a language that allows you to display documents in a Web browser.
You use HTML to create .htm files that are displayed in a browser. When you create an Internet application in
Visual Basic, your user interface is usually made up of HTML pages rather than forms. In many ways, an .htm
file (which allows you to display HTML pages) is similar to a Visual Basic .frm file (which allows you to
display a Visual Basic form).
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Note While the user interface is generally made up of HTML pages, it can also contain a mix of Visual Basic
forms and HTML pages.
An .htm file is a text document that contains a series of tags that tell the browser how to display the file. These
HTML tags supply information about the page's structure, appearance, and content. The following figure shows
the relationship between page in the browser and its HTML tags:
HTML Page and Source HTML
In addition to describing the structural relationships among page elements, some HTML tags also contain
attributes. Attributes provide details about a particular tag. For example, the tag that inserts an image onto a
page contains an attribute that specifies the name of the file to insert. The tag is shown below.
HTML Tags and Attributes
Internet Object Models
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You use the concepts of object-oriented programming in your Visual Basic Internet applications just as you do
in forms-based Visual Basic applications. In Visual Basic Internet applications, you use Internet-related object
models to access and manipulate information and controls on your HTML pages.
There are two types of Visual Basic Internet applications: IIS applications and DHTML applications. In IIS
applications, you make use of the Active Server Pages (ASP) object model to retrieve information from the
user, send information to the browser, and maintain information about the current session. In DHTML
applications, you use the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) object model to manipulate the elements on an HTML
page.
The important point to remember is that you access the information on your HTML pages through objects,
regardless of whether the objects themselves are ASP or DHTML. The object models are explained in much
greater detail in the chapters describing each type of application.
For More Information See "A History of Development on the Internet" for more information on the
differences between IIS and DHTML applications. See the "Developing DHTML Applications" chapter for
more information on using Dynamic HTML objects. See the "Developing IIS Applications with Webclasses"
chapter for more information on using ASP objects. See the MSDN™ Web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/
for details on using HTML and Internet technologies.
Web page
A document displayable in a web browser
Web site
A collection of webpages
Web Server
A computer that hosts a website
Search Engine
A website that helps you find web pages
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HTML Basics
Welcome to HTML Basics. This workshop leads you through the basics of Hyper Text Markup Language
(HTML). HTML is the building block for web pages. You will learn to use HTML to author an HTML page
to display in a web browser.
Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

▪ Use a text editor to author an HTML document.
▪ Be able to use basic tags to denote paragraphs, emphasis or special type.
▪ Create hyperlinks to other documents.
▪ Create an email link.
▪ Add images to your document.
▪ Use a table for layout.
▪ Apply colors to your HTML document.
Prerequisites:
You will need a text editor, such as Notepad and an Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape.
Q: What is Notepad and where do I get it?
A: Notepad is the default Windows text editor. On most Windows systems, click your Start button and
choose Programs then Accessories. It should be a little blue notebook.
Mac Users: SimpleText is the default text editor on the Mac. In OSX use TextEdit and change the
following preferences: Select (in the preferences window) Plain text instead of Rich text and then
select Ignore rich text commands in HTML files. This is very important because if you don't do this
HTML codes probably won't work.
One thing you should avoid using is a word processor (like Microsoft Word) for authoring your HTML
documents.
What is an html File?
HTML is a format that tells a computer how to display a web page. The documents themselves are plain text
files with special "tags" or codes that a web browser uses to interpret and display information on your
computer screen.
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▪ HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language

▪ An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags
▪ The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page
▪ An HTML file must have an htm or html file extension
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
This is my first homepage. <b>This text is bold</b>
</body>
</html>
Save the file as mypage.html. Start your Internet browser. Select Open (or Open Page) in the File menu of
your browser. A dialog box will appear. Select Browse (or Choose File) and locate the html file you just
created - mypage.html - select it and click Open.
HTM or HTML Extension?
When you save an HTML file, you can use either the .htm or the .html extension. The .htm extension comes
from the past when some of the commonly used software only allowed three letter extensions. It is perfectly
safe to use either .html or .htm, but be consistent. mypage.htm and mypage.html are treated as different files
by the browser.
How to View HTML Source
A good way to learn HTML is to look at how other people have coded their html pages. To find out, simply
click on the View option in your browsers toolbar and select Source or Page Source. This will open a
window that shows you the actual HTML of the page. Go ahead and view the source html for this page.
HTML Tags
▪ HTML tags are used to mark-up HTML elements

▪ HTML tags are surrounded by the two characters < and >
▪ The surrounding characters are called angle brackets
▪ HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>
▪ The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
▪ The text between the start and end tags is the element content
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▪ HTML tags are not case sensitive, <b> means the same as <B>
Logical vs. Physical Tags
In HTML there are both logical tags and physical tags. Logical tags are designed to describe (to the browser)
the enclosed text's meaning. An example of a logical tag is the <strong> </strong> tag. By placing text in
between these tags you are telling the browser that the text has some greater importance. By default all
browsers make the text appear bold when in between the <strong>and
</strong>tags.
Physical tags on the other hand provide specific instructions on how to display the text they enclose. Examples
of physical tags include:
▪ <b>: Makes the text bold.

▪ <big>: Makes the text usually one size bigger than what's around it.
▪ <i>: Makes text italic.
Physical tags were invented to add style to HTML pages because style sheets were not around, though the
original intention of HTML was to not have physical tags. Rather than use physical tags to style your
HTML pages, you should use style sheets.
HTML Elements
Remember the HTML example from the previous page:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
This is an HTML element:

<b>This text is bold</b>
The HTML element begins with a start tag: <b>

The content of the HTML element is: This text is bold The
HTML element ends with an end tag: </b>
The purpose of the <b>tag is to define an HTML element that should be displayed as bold. This is
also an HTML element:
<body>
</body>
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This HTML element starts with the start tag <body>, and ends with the end tag </body>. The purpose of the
<body> tag is to define the HTML element that contains the body of the HTML document.
Nested Tags
You may have noticed in the example above, the <body>tag also contains other tags, like the <b>tab. When
you enclose an element in with multiple tags, the last tag opened should be the first tag closed. For example:
<p><b><em>This is NOT the proper way to close nested tags.</p></em></b>
<p><b><em>This is the proper way to close nested tags. </em></b></p>
Note: It doesn't matter which tag is first, but they must be closed in the proper order.
Why Use Lowercase Tags?
You may notice we've used lowercase tags even though I said that HTML tags are not case sensitive.
<B>means the same as <b>. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group responsible for
developing web standards, recommends lowercase tags in their HTML 4 recommendation, and XHTML
(the next generation HTML) requires lowercase tags.
Tag Attributes
Tags can have attributes. Attributes can provide additional information about the HTML elements on your
page. The <tag> tells the browser to do something, while the attribute tells the browser how to do it. For
instance, if we add the bgcolor attribute, we can tell the browser that the background color of your page
should be blue, like this: <body bgcolor="blue">
This tag defines an HTML table: <table>. With an added border attribute, you can tell the browser that the
table should have no borders: <table border="0">. Attributes always come in name/value pairs like this:
name="value". Attributes are always added to the start tag of an HTML element and the value is
surrounded by quotes.
Basic HTML Tags
The most important tags in HTML are tags that define headings, paragraphs and line breaks.
Basic HTML Tags
Tag Description
<html> Defines an HTML document
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<body> Defines the document's body

<h1> to <h6> Defines header 1 to header 6
<p> Defines a paragraph
<br> Inserts a single line break
<hr> Defines a horizontal rule
 be displayed like this.</p> this.
Notice you don't see the text between the tags . If you look at the source code, you would see the
comment. To view the source code for this page, in your browser window, select View and then select
Source.
Note: You need an exclamation point after the opening bracket .
HTML automatically adds an extra blank line before and after some elements, like before and after a
paragraph, and before and after a heading. If you want to insert blank lines into your document, use the
<br>tag.
Other HTML Tags
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As mentioned before, there are logical styles that describe what the text should be and physical styles which
actually provide physical formatting. It is recommended to use the logical tags and use style sheets to style
the text in those tags.
Logical Tags Physical Tags
Tag Description
<abbr> Defines an abbreviation Tag Description
<acronym> Defines an acronym <b> Defines bold text
<address> Defines an address element <big> Defines big text
<cite> Defines a citation <i> Defines italic text
<code> Defines computer codetext <small> Defines small text
<blockquote> Defines a long quotation <sup> Defines superscripted text
<del> Defines text <sub> Defines subscripted text
<dfn> Defines a definition term <tt> Defines teletype text
<em> Defines emphasized text <u> Deprecated. Use styles instead
<ins> Defines inserted text
<kbd> Defines keyboard text
<pre> Defines preformatted text
<q> Defines a short quotation
<samp> Defines sample computer code
<strong> Defines strong text
<var> Defines a variable
Character tags like <strong> and <em>produce the same physical display as <b> and <i>but are more
uniformly supported across different browsers.
HTML Character Entities
Some characters have a special meaning in HTML, like the less than sign (<) that defines the start of an
HTML tag. If we want the browser to actually display these characters we must insert character entities in
place of the actual characters themselves.
The Most Common Character Entities:
Result Description Entity Name Entity Number

non-breaking space
< less than < <
> greater than > >
& ampersand & &
" quotation mark " "
' apostrophe ' (does not work in IE) '
A character entity has three parts: an ampersand (&), an entity name or an entity number, and finally a
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semicolon (;). The & means we are beginning a special character, the ; means ending a special character
and the letters in between are sort of an abbreviation for what it's for. To display a less than sign in an
HTML document we must write: < or < The advantage of using a name instead of a number is that
a name is easier to remember. The disadvantage is that not all browsers support the newest entity names,
while the support for entity numbers is very good in almost all browsers.
Note: Entities are case sensitive.
Non-breaking Space
The most common character entity in HTML is the non-breaking space . Normally HTML will
truncate spaces in your text. If you add 10 spaces in your text, HTML will remove 9 of them. To add spaces
to your text, use the character entity.

<p> This code would appear This code would appear as this.
as this.</p>

<p> This code would This code would appear with three extra
appear with three extra spaces.</p> spaces.
HTML Fonts
The <font>tag in HTML is deprecated. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has removed the
<font>tag from its recommendations. In future versions of HTML, style sheets (CSS) will be used to define
the layout and display properties of HTML elements. The <font>Tag Should NOT be used.
HTML Backgrounds
Backgrounds
The <body> tag has two attributes where you can specify backgrounds. The background can be a color or an
image.
Bgcolor
The bgcolor attribute specifies a background-color for an HTML page. The value of this attribute can be a
hexadecimal number, an RGB value, or a color name:
<body bgcolor="#000000">
<body bgcolor="rgb(0,0,0)">
<body bgcolor="black">
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The lines above all set the background-color to black.
Background
The background attribute can also specify a background-image for an HTML page. The value of this
attribute is the URL of the image you want to use. If the image is smaller than the browser window, the
image will repeat itself until it fills the entire browser window.
<body background="clouds.gif">
<bodybackground="http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/graphics/clouds.gif">
The URL can be relative (as in the first line above) or absolute (as in the second line above). If
you want to use a background image, you should keep in mind:
▪ Will the background image increase the loading time too much?
▪ Will the background image look good with other images on the page?
▪ Will the background image look good with the text colors on the page?
▪ Will the background image look good when it is repeated on the page?
▪ Will the background image take away the focus from the text?
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<html>
<head>
</head>
<body background="http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/graphics/clouds.gif" bgcolor="#EDDD9E">
<h1 align="center">My First Webpage</h1>
<p>Welcome to my <strong>first</strong> webpage. I am writing this page using a text editor and plain
old html.</p>
<p>By learning html, I'll be able to create webpages like a <del>beginner</del> pro....<br>
which I am of course.</p>
</body>
</html>
Save your page as mypage3.html and view it in your browser. To view how the page should look, visit
this web page: http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/mypage3.html
Notice we gave our page a background color as well as a background image. If for some reason the web
page is unable to find the picture, it will display our background color.
HTML Colors
Color Values
Colors are defined using a hexadecimal notation for the combination of red, green, and blue color values
(RGB). The lowest value that can be given to one light source is 0 (hex #00). The highest value is 255 (hex
#FF). This table shows the result of combining red, green, and blue:
Color Color HEX Color RGB

#000000 rgb(0,0,0)
#FF0000 rgb(255,0,0)
#00FF00 rgb(0,255,0)
#0000FF rgb(0,0,255)
#FFFF00 rgb(255,255,0)
#00FFFF rgb(0,255,255)
#FF00FF rgb(255,0,255)
#C0C0C0 rgb(192,192,192)
#FFFFFF rgb(255,255,255)
Color Names
A collection of color names is supported by most browsers. To view a table of color names that are
supported by most browsers visit this web page: http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/color_names.htm
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Note: Only 16 color names are supported by the W3C HTML 4.0 standard (aqua, black, blue,
fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow). For
all other colors you should use the Color HEX value.
Color Color HEX Color Name

#F0F8FF AliceBlue
#FAEBD7 AntiqueWhite
#7FFFD4 Aquamarine
#000000 Black
#0000FF Blue
#8A2BE2 BlueViolet
#A52A2A Brown
Web Safe Colors
A few years ago, when most computers supported only 256 different colors, a list of 216 Web Safe Colors
was suggested as a Web standard. The reason for this was that the Microsoft and Mac operating system used
40 different "reserved" fixed system colors (about 20 each). This 216 cross platform web safe color palette
was originally created to ensure that all computers would display all colors correctly when running a 256
color palette. To view the 216 Cross Platform Colors visit this web page:
http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/216.html
16 Million Different Colors
The combination of Red, Green and Blue values from 0 to 255 gives a total of more than 16 million different
colors to play with (256 x 256 x 256). Most modern monitors are capable of displaying at least 16,384
different colors. To assist you in using color schemes, check out
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html. This site lets you test different color schemes for
page backgrounds, text and links.
HTML Lists
HTML provides a simple way to show unordered lists (bullet lists) or ordered lists (numbered lists).
Unordered Lists
An unordered list is a list of items marked with bullets (typically small black circles). An unordered list starts
with the <ul> tag. Each list item starts with the <li> tag.
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<ul>
<li>Coffee</li> ▪ Coffee
<li>Milk</li> ▪ Milk
</ul>
Ordered Lists
An ordered list is also a list of items. The list items are marked with numbers. An ordered list starts with the
<ol> tag. Each list item starts with the <li> tag.

<ol>
<li>Coffee</li> 1. Coffee
<li>Milk</li> 2. Milk
</ol>
Inside a list item you can put paragraphs, line breaks, images, links, other lists, etc.
Definition Lists
Definition lists consist of two parts: a term and a description. To mark up a definition list, you need three
HTML elements; a container <dl>, a definition term <dt>, and a definition description <dd>.

<dl>
<dt>Cascading Style Sheets</dt> Cascading Style Sheets
<dd>Style sheets are used to provide Style sheets are used to provide
presentational suggestions for documents presentational suggestions for
marked up in HTML. documents marked up in HTML.
</dd>
</dl>
Inside a definition-list definition (the <dd>tag) you can put paragraphs, line breaks, images, links, other lists,
etc
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#EDDD9E">
<h1 align="center">My First Webpage</h1>
<p>Welcome to my <strong>first</strong> webpage. I am writing this page using a text editor and plain old
html.</p>
<p>By learning html, I'll be able to create web pages like a pro....<br> which I am of
course.</p>
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Here's what I've learned:

<ul>
<li>How to use HTML tags</li>
<li>How to use HTML colors</li>
<li>How to create Lists</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
HTML Links
HTML uses the <a> anchor tag to create a link to another document or web page.
The Anchor Tag and the Href Attribute
An anchor can point to any resource on the Web: an HTML page, an image, a sound file, a movie, etc. The
syntax of creating an anchor:
<a href="url">Text to be displayed</a>
The <a> tag is used to create an anchor to link from, the href attribute is used to tell the address of the
document or page we are linking to, and the words between the open and close of the anchor tag will be
displayed as a hyperlink.

<a href="http://www.austincc.edu/">Visit ACC!</a> Visit ACC!
The Target Attribute
With the target attribute, you can define where the linked document will be opened. By default, the link will
open in the current window. The code below will open the document in a new browser window:
<a href=http://www.austincc.edu/ target="_blank">Visit ACC!</a>
Email Links
To create an email link, you will use mailto: plus your email address. Here is a link to ACC's Help Desk:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email Help Desk</a>
To add a subject for the email message, you would add ?subject= after the email address. For example:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Email Assistance">Email HelpDesk</a>
The Anchor Tag and the Name Attribute
The name attribute is used to create a named anchor. When using named anchors we can create links that
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can jump directly to a specific section on a page, instead of letting the user scroll around to find what he/she
is looking for. Unlike an anchor that uses href, a named anchor doesn't change the appearance of the text
(unless you set styles for that anchor) or indicate in any way that there is anything special about the text.
Below is the syntax of a named anchor:
<a name="top">Text to be displayed</a>
To link directly to the top section, add a # sign and the name of the anchor to the end of a URL, like this:
<a href="http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html
/10links.html#top">Back to top of page </a> Back to top of page
A hyperlink to the top of the page from within the file

10links.html will look like this:
<a href="#top">Back to top of page </a> Back to top of page
Note: Always add a trailing slash to subfolder references. If you link like this:
href="http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html", you will generate two HTTP requests to the
server, because the server will add a slash to the address and create a new request like this:
href="http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/"
Named anchors are often used to create "table of contents" at the beginning of a large document. Each
chapter within the document is given a named anchor, and links to each of these anchors are put at the top
of the document. If a browser cannot find a named anchor that has been specified, it goes to the top of the
document. No error occurs.
HTML Images
The Image Tag and the Src Attribute
The <img>tag is empty, which means that it contains attributes only and it has no closing tag. To display
an image on a page, you need to use the src attribute. Src stands for "source". The value of the src attribute
is the URL of the image you want to display on your page. The syntax of defining an image:
<img src="graphics/chef.gif">
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Not only does the source attribute specify what image to use, but where the image is located. The
above image, graphics/chef.gif, means that the browser will look for the image name chef.gif in a
graphics folder in the same folder as the html document itself.
src="chef.gif"means that the image is in the same

folder as the html document calling for it.
src="images/chef.gif"means that the image is one

folder down from the html document that called for
it. This can go on down as many layers as
necessary.
src="../chef.gif"means that the image is in one

folder up from the html document that called for it.
src="../../chef.gif"means that the image is two

folders up from the html document that called for it.
src="../images/chef.gif"means that the image is one

folder up and then another folder down in the images
directory.
src="../../../other/images/chef.gif"means this goes

multiple layers up.
The browser puts the image where the image tag occurs in the document. If you put an image tag between
two paragraphs, the browser shows the first paragraph, then the image, and then the second paragraph.
The Alt Attribute
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The alt attribute is used to define an alternate text for an image. The value of the alt attribute is
author-defined text:
<img src="graphics/chef.gif" alt="Smiling Happy Chef ">
The alt attribute tells the reader what he or she is missing on a page if the browser can't load images. The
browser will then display the alternate text instead of the image. It is a good practice to include the alt
attribute for each image on a page, to improve the display and usefulness of your document for people who
have text-only browsers or use screen readers.
Image Dimensions
When you have an image, the browser usually figures out how big the image is all by itself. If you put in
the image dimensions in pixels however, the browser simply reserves a space for the image, then loads the
rest of the page. Once the entire page is loads it can go back and fill in the images. Without dimensions,
when it runs into an image, the browser has to pause loading the page, load the image, then continue
loading the page. The chef image would then be:
<img src="graphics/chef.gif" width="130" height="101" alt="Smiling HappyChef">
Open the file mypage2.html in your text editor and add code highlighted in bold:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1 align="center">My First Web page</h1>
<p>Welcome to my first webpage. I am writing this page using a text editor and plain old html.</p>
<p>By learning html, I'll be able to create web pages like a pro....<br> which I
am of course.</p>

<p><img src="graphics/chef.gif" width="130" height="101" alt="Smiling Happy Chef"
align="center"></p>
<p align="center">This is my Chef</p>
</body>
</html>
Tables
Tables are defined with the <table>tag. A table is divided into rows (with the <tr>tag), and each row is
divided into data cells (with the <td> tag). The letters td stands for table data, which is the content of a data
cell. A data cell can contain text, images, lists, paragraphs, forms, horizontal rules, tables, etc.
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<table>
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 1</td>
</tr> row 1, cell 1 row 1, cell 2
<tr> row 2, cell 1 row 2, cell 2
</tr>
</table>
Tables and the Border Attribute
To display a table with borders, you will use the border attribute.

<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, cell 1</td> row 1, cell 1 row 1, cell 2
<td>Row 1, cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
and....

<table border="5">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, cell 1</td> row 1, cell 1 row 1, cell 2
<td>Row 1, cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
Open up your text editor. Type in your <html>, <head> and <body>tags. From here on I will only be writing
what goes between the <body> tags. Type in the following:
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Tables can be used to layout information</td>
<td> <img src="http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/graphics/chef.gif">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Headings in a Table
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Headings in a table are defined with the <th>tag.

This code Would Display
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Heading</th>
<th>Another Heading</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 2</td> Heading Another Heading
</tr> row 1, cell 1 row 1, cell 2
<tr>
row 2, cell 1 row 2, cell 2
</tr>
</table>
Cell Padding and Spacing
The <table>tag has two attributes known as cellspacing and cellpadding. Here is a table example without
these properties. These properties may be used separately or together.
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>some text</td>
<td>some text</td>
</tr> some text some text
<tr> some text some text
<td>some text</td>
<td>some text</td>
</tr>
</table>
Cellspacing is the pixel width between the individual data cells in the table (The thickness of the lines
making the table grid). The default is zero. If the border is set at 0, the cellspacing lines will be invisible.
<table border="1" cellspacing="5">
<tr>
<td>some text</td>
<td>some text</td> some text some text
</tr><tr>
<td>some text</td> some text some text
<td>some text</td>
</tr>
</table>
Cellpadding is the pixel space between the cell contents and the cell border. The default for this property is
also zero. This feature is not used often, but sometimes comes in handy when you have your borders turned
on and you want the contents to be away from the border a bit for easy viewing. Cellpadding is invisible,
even with the border property turned on. Cellpadding can be handled in a style sheet.
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<table border="1" cellpadding="10">
<tr> some text some text
<td>some text</td>
<td>some text</td>
</tr><tr> some text some text
<td>some text</td>
<td>some text</td>
</tr>
</table>
Table Tags
Tag Description
<table> Defines a table
<th> Defines a table header
<tr> Defines a table row
<td> Defines a table cell
<caption> Defines a table caption
<colgroup> Defines groups of table columns
<col> Defines the attribute values for one or more columns in a table
Table Size
Table Width
The width attribute can be used to define the width of your table. It can be defined as a fixed width or a
relative width. A fixed table width is one where the width of the table is specified in pixels. For example,
this code, <table width="550">, will produce a table that is 550 pixels wide. A relative table width is
specified as a percentage of the width of the visitor's viewing window. Hence this code, <table
width="80%">, will produce a table that occupies 80 percent of the screen.
This table width is 250 pixels
This table width is 50%
There are arguments in favor of giving your tables a relative width because such table widths yield pages
that work regardless of the visitor's screen resolution. For example, a table width of 100% will always span
the entire width of the browser window whether the visitor has a 800x600 display or a 1024x768 display
(etc). Your visitor never needs to scroll horizontally to read your page, something that is regarded by most
people as being very annoying.
HTML Layout - Using Tables
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One very common practice with HTML, is to An HTML <table> is used to divide a part of
use HTML tables to format the layout of an this Web page into two columns.
HTML page. The trick is to use a table without borders,
A part of this page is formatted with two and maybe a little extra cell-padding.
columns. As you can see on this page, there is No matter how much text you add to this
a left column and a right column. page, it will stay inside its column borders.
This text is displayed in the left column.
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Web Page </title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="90%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" >
<tr bgcolor="#EDDD9E">
<td width="200" valign="top"><img src="graphics/contact.gif" width="100" height="100"></td>
<td valign="top"><h1 align="right">Janet Doeson</h1>
<h3 align="right">Technical Specialist</h3></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="200">
<h3>Menu</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="home.html">Home</a></li>
<li> <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
<li> <a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
<li> <a href="http://www.austincc.edu">Links</a> </li>
</ul></td>
<td valign="top"><h2 align="center">Welcome!</h2>
<p>Welcome to my first webpage. I created this webpage without the assistance of a webpage editor.
Just my little text editor and a keen understanding of html.</p>
<p>Look around. Notice I'm able to use paragraphs, lists and headings. You may not be able to tell, but
the layout is done with a table. I'm very clever. </p>
<blockquote>
<p>I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.</p>
<cite>Lily Tomlin </cite> </blockquote> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr width="90%" align="left">
<address>
Janet Doeson<br> Technical
Specialist<br> 512.555.5555
</address>
<p>Contact me at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </p>
</body>
</html>
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cascading Style Sheets, fondly referred to as CSS, is a simple design language intended to
simplify the process of making web pages presentable.
CSS handles the look and feel part of a web page. Using CSS, you can control the color of the
text, the style of fonts, the spacing between paragraphs, how columns are sized and laid out, what
background images or colors are used, as well as a variety of other effects.
CSS is easy to learn and understand but it provides powerful control over the presentation of an
HTML document. Most commonly, CSS is combined with the markup languages HTML or
XHTML.
Advantages of CSS:
n write CSS once and then reuse same sheet in multiple HTML
pages. You can define a style for each HTML element and apply it to as many Web pages as you
want.
If you are using CSS, you do not need to write HTML tag attributes every time. Just write one
CSS rule of a tag and apply to all the occurrences of that tag. So less code means faster download
times.
Easy maintenance
To make a global change, simply change the style, and all elements in all the web pages will be
updated automatically.
Superior styles to HTML
CSS has a much wider array of attributes than HTML so you can give far better look to your
HTML page in comparison of HTML attributes.
Multiple Device Compatibility
Style sheets allow content to be optimized for more than one type of device. By using the same
HTML document, different versions of a website can be presented for handheld devices such as
PDAs and cell phones or for printing.
Global web standards
Now HTML attributes are being deprecated and it is being recommended to use CSS. So its a
good idea to start using CSS in all the HTML pages to make them compatible to future browsers.
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Understanding Internet Basics

Internet Clients and Servers

Internet vs. Intranet

HTML Page and Source HTML

HTML Tags and Attributes

Internet Object Models

A document displayable in a web browser

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

What is an html File?

▪ HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language

HTM or HTML Extension?

How to View HTML Source

▪ HTML tags are used to mark-up HTML elements

Logical vs. Physical Tags

▪ <b>: Makes the text bold.

Remember the HTML example from the previous page:

This is an HTML element:

The HTML element begins with a start tag: <b>

also an HTML element:

<p><b><em>This is NOT the proper way to close nested tags.</p></em></b>

<p><b><em>This is the proper way to close nested tags. </em></b></p>

Why Use Lowercase Tags?

Basic HTML Tags

Basic HTML Tags

<body> Defines the document's body

This Code Would Display

The <br>tag has no closing tag.

This Code Would Display

This Code Would Display

Other HTML Tags

Logical Tags Physical Tags

HTML Character Entities

The Most Common Character Entities:

Result Description Entity Name Entity Number

Note: Entities are case sensitive.

This Code Would Display

This Code Would Display

The lines above all set the background-color to black.

Color Color HEX Color RGB

Color Color HEX Color Name

Web Safe Colors

16 Million Different Colors

This Code Would Display

This Code Would Display

This Code Would Display

Here's what I've learned:

The Anchor Tag and the Href Attribute

This Code Would Display

The Target Attribute

<a href=http://www.austincc.edu/ target="_blank">Visit ACC!</a>

The Anchor Tag and the Name Attribute

A hyperlink to the top of the page from within the file

<a href="#top">Back to top of page </a> Back to top of page

The Image Tag and the Src Attribute

This Code Would Display

src="chef.gif"means that the image is in the same

src="images/chef.gif"means that the image is one

src="../chef.gif"means that the image is in one