HTML Notes

HTML
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the most widely used
language to write Web Pages.
• Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are
linked together. Thus, the link available on a webpage is called Hypertext.
• As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language which means you use
HTML to simply "mark-up" a text document with tags that tell a Web browser
how to structure it to display.
Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of
documents like headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of
scientific information between researchers.
Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags
available in HTML language.
Basic HTML Document
In its simplest form, following is an example of an HTML document:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>This is document title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML Basic Tags
As told earlier, HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to
format the content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>.
Except few tags, most of the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For
example, <html> has its closing tag</html> and <body> tag has its closing tag
</body> tag etc.
Above example of HTML document uses the following tags:
Tag Description
<!DOCTYPE...> This tag defines the document type and HTML version.
This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly

comprises
of document header which is represented by

<html> <head>...</head> and
document body which is represented by <body>...</body>

tags.
This tag represents the document's header which can keep other
HTML
<head>
tags like <title>, <link> etc.
The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention

the
<title>
document title.
This tag represents the document's body which keeps other

HTML tags
<body>
like <h1>, <div>, <p> etc.
<h1> This tag represents the heading.
<p> This tag represents a paragraph.
The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration
The <!DOCTYPE> declaration tag is used by the web browser to understand the
version of the HTML used in the document. Current version of HTML is 5 and it
makes use of the following declaration:
<!DOCTYPE html>
There are many other declaration types which can be used in HTML document
depending on what version of HTML is being used. We will see more details on this
while discussing <!DOCTYPE...> tag along with other HTML tags.
Heading Tags
Any document starts with a heading. You can use different sizes for your headings.
HTML also has six levels of headings, which use the elements <h1>, <h2>,
<h3>, <h4>, <h5>, and <h6>. While displaying any heading, browser adds one
line before and one line after that heading.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Heading Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is heading 1</h1>
</body>
</html>
Paragraph Tag
The <p> tag offers a way to structure your text into different paragraphs. Each
paragraph of text should go in between an opening <p> and a closing </p> tag as
shown below in the example:
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Paragraph Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here is a first paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a third paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a second paragraph of text.</p>
</body>
</html>
Line Break Tag
Whenever you use the <br /> element, anything following it starts from the next
line. This tag is an example of an empty element, where you do not need opening
and closing tags, as there is nothing to go in between them.
The <br /> tag has a space between the characters br and the forward slash. If
you omit this space, older browsers will have trouble rendering the line break, while
if you miss the forward slash character and just use <br> it is not valid in XHTML.
Centering Content
You can use <center> tag to put any content in the center of the page or any
table cell.
Horizontal Lines
Horizontal lines are used to visually break-up sections of a document. The <hr>
tag creates a line from the current position in the document to the right margin and
breaks the line accordingly.
Nonbreaking Spaces
Suppose you want to use the phrase "12 Angry Men." Here, you would not want a
browser to split the "12, Angry" and "Men" across two lines:
An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."
In cases, where you do not want the client browser to break text, you should use a
nonbreaking space entity instead of a normal space. For example, when
coding the "12 Angry Men" in a paragraph, you should use something similar to
this.
<p>An example of this technique appears in the

movie "12 Angry Men."</p>
HTML ELEMENTS
An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the element contains other
content, it ends with a closing tag, where the element name is preceded by a
forward slash as shown below with few tags:
Start Tag Content End Tag
<p> This is paragraph content. </p>
<h1> This is heading content. </h1>
<div> This is division content. </div>
<br />
So here <p>....</p> is an HTML element, <h1>...</h1> is another HTML

element.There are some HTML elements which don't need to be closed, such as
<img.../>, <hr /> and <br /> elements. These are known as void elements.
HTML Tag vs. Element
An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the element contains other

content, it ends with a closing tag.
For example, <p> is starting tag of a paragraph and </p> is closing tag of the
same paragraph but <p>This is paragraph</p> is a paragraph element.
HTML ATTRIBUTES
We have seen few HTML tags and their usage like heading tags <h1>, <h2>,
paragraph tag <p> and other tags. We used them so far in their simplest form, but
most of the HTML tags can also have attributes, which are extra bits of information.
An attribute is used to define the characteristics of an HTML element and is placed inside the
element's opening tag. All attributes are made up of two parts: a name and a value:
• The name is the property you want to set. For example, the paragraph <p>
element in the example carries an attribute whose name is align, which you
can use to indicate the alignment of paragraph on the page.
• The value is what you want the value of the property to be set and always
put within quotations. The below example shows three possible values of
align attribute: left, center and right.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Align AttributeExample</title>
</head>
<body>
<p align="left">This is left aligned</p>
<p align="center">This is center aligned</p>
<p align="right">This is right aligned</p>
</body>
</html>
Core Attributes
The four core attributes that can be used on the majority of HTML elements
(although not all) are:
• Id
• Title
• Class
• Style
The Id Attribute
The id attribute of an HTML tag can be used to uniquely identify any element within
an HTML page. There are two primary reasons that you might want to use an id
attribute on an element:
• If an element carries an id attribute as a unique identifier, it is possible to

identify just that element and its content.
• If you have two elements of the same name within a Web page (or style
sheet), you can use the id attribute to distinguish between elements that
have the same name.
For now, let's use the id attribute to distinguish between two paragraph elements
as shown below.
<p id="html">This para explains what is HTML</p>
<p id="css">This para explains what is Cascading Style Sheet</p>
The title Attribute

The title attribute gives a suggested title for the element. They syntax for the title
attribute is similar as explained for id attribute:
Example
<h3 title="Hello HTML!">Titled Heading Tag Example</h3>
The behavior of this attribute will depend upon the element that carries it, although
it is often displayed as a tooltip when cursor comes over the element or while the
element is loading.
The class Attribute
The class attribute is used to associate an element with a style sheet, and specifies
the class of element. You will learn more about the use of the class attribute when
you will learn Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). So for now you can avoid it.
The value of the attribute may also be a space-separated list of class names. For example:
class="className1 className2 className3"

The style Attribute
The style attribute allows you to specify Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) rules within
the element.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The style Attribute</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="font-family:arial; color:#FF0000;">Some text...</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result:

Some text...
At this point of time, we are not learning CSS, so just let's proceed without
bothering much about CSS. Here, you need to understand what are HTML
attributes and how they can be used while formatting content.
Generic Attributes
Here's a table of some other attributes that are readily usable with many of the HTML tags.
Attribute Options Function
align right, left, center Horizontally aligns tags
valign top, middle, bottom Vertically aligns tags within an HTML
element.
numeric, hexidecimal,
bgcolor RGB Places a background color behind an
values Element
Places a background image behind

background URL an
Element
Names an element for use with

id User Defined Cascading
Style Sheets.
Classifies an element for use with

class User Defined Cascading
Style Sheets.
HTML FORMATING
If you use a word processor, you must be familiar with the ability to make text
bold, italicized, or underlined; these are just three of the ten options available to
indicate how text can appear in HTML and XHTML.
Bold Text
Anything that appears within <b>...</b> element, is displayed in bold as shown

below:
<p>The following word uses a <b>bold</b> typeface.</p>

Italic Text
Anything that appears within <i>...</i> element is displayed in italicized as shown

below:
<p>The following word uses a <i>italicized</i> typeface.</p>
Underlined Text
Anything that appears within <u>...</u> element, is displayed with underline as

shown below:
<p>The following word uses a <u>underlined</u> typeface.</p>
Strike Text
Anything that appears within <strike>...</strike> element is displayed with

strikethrough, which is a thin line through the text as shown below:
<p>The following word uses a <strike>strikethrough</strike> typeface.</p>
Superscript Text
The content of a <sup>...</sup> element is written in superscript; the font size

used is the same size as the characters surrounding it but is displayed half a
character's height above the other characters.
<p>The following word uses a <sup>superscript</sup> typeface.</p>
Subscript Text
The content of a <sub>...</sub> element is written in subscript; the font size

used is the same as the characters surrounding it, but is displayed half a
character's height beneath the other characters.
<p>The following word uses a <sub>subscript</sub> typeface.</p>
Inserted Text and Deleted Text
Anything that appears within <ins>...</ins> element is displayed as inserted

text.Anything that appears within <del>...</del> element, is displayed as deleted
text.
<p>I want to drink <del>cola</del> <ins>wine</ins></p>
Larger Text
The content of the <big>...</big> element is displayed one font size larger than
the rest of the text surrounding it as shown below:
<p>The following word uses a <big>big</big> typeface.</p>
Smaller Text
The content of the <small>...</small> element is displayed one font size smaller
than the rest of the text surrounding it as shown below:
<p>The following word uses a <small>small</small> typeface.</p>
Grouping Content
The <div> and <span> elements allow you to group together several elements to
create sections or subsections of a page.
For example, you might want to put all of the footnotes on a page within a <div>
element to indicate that all of the elements within that <div> element relate to the
footnotes. You might then attach a style to this <div> element so that they appear
using a special set of style rules.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Div Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="menu" align="middle" >
<a href="/index.htm">HOME</a> |
<a href="/about/contact_us.htm">CONTACT</a> | <a

href="/about/index.htm">ABOUT</a> </div>
<div id="content" align="left" bgcolor="white"> <h5>Content

Articles</h5>
<p>Actual content goes here.....</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Span Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is the example of <span style="color:green">span tag</span> and the <span

style="color:red">div tag</span> alongwith CSS</p>
</body>
</html>
PHRASE TAGS
The phrase tags have been desicolgned for specific purposes, though they are
displayed in a similar way as other basic tags like <b>, <i>, <pre>, and <tt>,
you have seen in previous chapter. This chapter will take you through all the
important phrase tags, so let's start seeing them one by one.
Emphasized Text
Anything that appears within <em>...</em> element is displayed as emphasized

text.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Emphasized Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <em>emphasized</em> typeface.</p>
</body></html>
The following word uses an emphasized typeface.
Marked Text
Anything that appears with-in <mark>...</mark> element, is displayed as

marked with yellow ink.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Marked Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word has been <mark>marked</mark> with yellow</p></body></html>
Strong Text
Anything that appears within <strong>...</strong> element is displayed as

important text.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Strong Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <strong>strong</strong> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
The following word uses a strong typeface.

Text Abbreviation
You can abbreviate a text by putting it inside opening <abbr> and closing </abbr>
tags.
If present, the title attribute must contain this full description and nothing else.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Abbreviation</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>My best friend's name is<abbr title="Abhishek">Abhy</abbr>.</p>
</body>
Computer Code
Any programming code to appear on a Web page should be placed inside

<code>...</code>tags. Usually the content of the <code> element is presented
in a monospaced font, just like the code in most programming books.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Computer Code Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Regular text. <code>This is code.</code> Regular text.</p>
</body>
</html>
Regular text. This is code. Regular text.

Keyboard Text
When you are talking about computers, if you want to tell a reader to enter some
text, you can use the <kbd>...</kbd> element to indicate what should be typed
in, as in this example.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Keyboard Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Regular text. <kbd>This is inside kbd element</kbd> Regular text.</p>
</body>
</html>
Regular text. This is inside kbd element Regular text.
Address Text
The <address>...</address> element is used to contain any address.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Address Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<address>388A, Road No 22, Jubilee Hills - Hyderabad</address>
</body></html>
388A, Road No 22, Jubilee Hills - Hyderabad
Insert Image
You can insert any image in your web page by using <img> tag. Following is the
simple syntax to use this tag.
<img src="Image URL" ... attributes-list/>
The <img> tag is an empty tag, which means that, it can contain only list of
attributes and it has no closing tag.
Attributes for <img> are height, width, border and align.
TABLES
HTML tables allow web authors to arrange data like text, images, links, other
tables, etc. into rows and columns of cells.
The HTML tables are created using the <table> tag in which the <tr> tag is used
to create table rows and <td> tag is used to create data cells.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Tables</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 2</td></tr></table></body></html>

Here, the border is an attribute of <table> tag and it is used to put a border
across all the cells. If you do not need a border, then you can use border="0".
Table Heading
Table heading can be defined using <th> tag. This tag will be put to replace <td>
tag, which is used to represent actual data cell. Normally you will put your top row
as table heading as shown below, otherwise you can use <th> element in any row.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Header</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body></html>
Cellpadding and Cellspacing Attributes
There are two attributes called cellpadding and cellspacing which you will use to
adjust the white space in your table cells. The cellspacing attribute defines the
width of the border, while cellpadding represents the distance between cell borders
and the content within a cell.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Cellpadding</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ramesh Raman</td>
<td>5000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shabbir Hussein</td>
<td>7000</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body></html>
Colspan and Rowspan Attributes

You will use colspan attribute if you want to merge two or more columns into a
single column. Similar way you will use rowspan if you want to merge two or more
rows.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Colspan/Rowspan</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2">Row 1 Cell 1</td><td>Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Cell 2</td><td>Row 2 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3">Row 3 Cell 1</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Tables Backgrounds
You can set table background using one of the following two ways:
• bgcolor attribute - You can set background color for whole table or just for
one cell.
• background attribute - You can set background image for whole table or
just for one cell.
You can also set border color also using bordercolor attribute.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Background</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" bordercolor="green" bgcolor="yellow"> <tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr><td rowspan="2">Row 1 Cell 1</td><td>Row 1 Cell 2</td><td>Row 1 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Cell 2</td><td>Row 2 Cell 3</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3">Row 3 Cell 1</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Here is an example of using background attribute. Here we will use an image

available in /images directory.
<table border="1" bordercolor="green" background="/images/test.png">
Table Height and Width
You can set a table width and height using width and height attributes. You can specify table
width or height in terms of pixels or in terms of percentage of available screen area.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Width/Height</title></head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="400" height="150">

Table Caption
The caption tag will serve as a title or explanation for the table and it shows up at
the top of the table. This tag is deprecated in newer version of HTML/XHTML.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Caption</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<caption>This is the caption</caption>
Table Header, Body, and Footer
Tables can be divided into three portions: a header, a body, and a foot. The head
and foot are rather similar to headers and footers in a word-processed document
that remain the same for every page, while the body is the main content holder of
the table.
The three elements for separating the head, body, and foot of a table are:
• <thead> - to create a separate table header.
• <tbody> - to indicate the main body of the table.
• <tfoot> - to create a separate table footer.
A table may contain several <tbody> elements to indicate different pages or

groups of data. But it is notable that <thead> and <tfoot> tags should appear
before <tbody>
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">This is the head of the table</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 2</td>
<td>Cell 3</td>
<td>Cell 4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body></html>
LISTS
HTML offers web authors three ways for specifying lists of information. All lists must
contain one or more list elements. Lists may contain:
• <ul> - An unordered list. This will list items using plain bullets.
• <ol> - An ordered list. This will use different schemes of numbers to list
your items.
• <dl> - A definition list. This arranges your items in the same way as they
are arranged in a dictionary.
HTML Unordered Lists
An unordered list is a collection of related items that have no special order or

sequence.
This list is created by using HTML <ul> tag. Each item in the list is marked with a
bullet.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
• Beetroot
• Ginger
• Potato
• Radish
The type Attribute
You can use type attribute for <ul> tag to specify the type of bullet you like. By
default, it is a disc. Following are the possible options:
<ul type="square">
<ul type="disc">
<ul type="circle">
Example
Following is an example where we used <ul type="square">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul type="square">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
• Beetroot
• Ginger
• Potato
• Radish
HTML Ordered Lists
If you are required to put your items in a numbered list instead of bulleted, then HTML ordered
list will be used. This list is created by using <ol> tag. The numbering starts at one and is
incremented by one for each successive ordered list element tagged with <li>.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body></html>
The type Attribute
You can use type attribute for <ol> tag to specify the type of numbering you like.
By default, it is a number. Following are the possible options:
<ol type="1"> - Default-Case Numerals.
<ol type="I"> - Upper-Case Numerals.
<ol type="i"> - Lower-Case Numerals.
<ol type="a"> - Lower-Case Letters.
<ol type="A"> - Upper-Case Letters.

Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="1">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<ol type="1">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
The start Attribute
You can use start attribute for <ol> tag to specify the starting point of numbering
you need. Following are the possible options:
<ol type="1"
start="4"> - Numerals starts with 4.
<ol type="I"
start="4"> - Numerals starts with IV.
<ol type="i"
start="4"> - Numerals starts with iv.
Letter starts
<ol type="a" start="4"> - s with d.
Letter starts
<ol type="A" start="4"> - s with D.
Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type="i" start="4" >
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<ol type="i" start="4">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
HTML Definition Lists
HTML and XHTML supports a list style which is called definition lists where entries
are listed like in a dictionary or encyclopedia. The definition list is the ideal way to
present a glossary, list of terms, or other name/value list.
Definition List makes use of following three tags.
• <dl> - Defines the start of the list
• <dt> - A term
• <dd> - Term definition
• </dl> - Defines the end of the list

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Definition List</title>
</head>
<body>
<dl>
<dt><b>HTML</b></dt>
<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language</dd>

<dt><b>HTTP</b></dt>
<dd>This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol</dd>
</dl>
</body>
</html>

HTML
This stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP
This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
Linking Documents
A link is specified using HTML tag <a>. This tag is called anchor tag and anything
between the opening <a> tag and the closing </a> tag becomes part of the link
and a user can click that part to reach to the linked document. Following is the
simple syntax to use <a> tag.
<a href="Document URL" ... attributes-list>Link Text</a>

Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href="http://www.google.com" target="_self">Google </a>
</body></html>
This will produce the following result, where you can click on the link generated to
reach to the home page of Google(in this example).
The target Attribute
We have used target attribute in our previous example. This attribute is used to
specify the location where linked document is opened. Following are the possible
options:
Option Description
_blank Opens the linked document in a new window or tab.
_self Opens the linked document in the same frame.
_parent Opens the linked document in the parent frame.
_top Opens the linked document in the full body of the window.
targetframe Opens the linked document in a named targetframe.

Example
Try following example to understand basic difference in few options given for target
attribute.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click any of the following links</p>
<a href="(path)" target="_blank">Opens in New</a> |
<a href="(path)" target="_self">Opens in Self</a> |
<a href="(path)" target="_parent">Opens in Parent</a> |
<a href="(path)" target="_top">Opens in Body</a>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result, where you can click on different links to
understand the difference between various options given for target attribute.
Block Elements
Block elements appear on the screen as if they have a line break before and after
them. For example, the <p>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>, <ul>,
<ol>, <dl>, <pre>, <hr />, <blockquote>, and <address> elements are all block
level elements. They all start on their own new line, and anything that follows them
appears on its own new line.
Inline Elements
Inline elements, on the other hand, can appear within sentences and do not have to
appear on a new line of their own. The <b>, <i>, <u>, <em>, <strong>, <sup>,
<sub>, <big>, <small>, <li>, <ins>, <del>, <code>, <cite>, <dfn>, <kbd>, and
<var> elements are all inline elements.
Grouping HTML Elements
There are two important tags which we use very frequently to group various other
HTML tags (i) <div> tag and (ii) <span> tag
The <div> tag
This is the very important block level tag which plays a big role in grouping various
other HTML tags and applying CSS on group of elements. Even now <div> tag can
be used to create webpage layout where we define different parts (Left, Right, Top
etc.) of the page using <div> tag. This tag does not provide any visual change on
the block but this has more meaning when it is used with CSS.
Example
Following is a simple example of <div> tag. We will learn Cascading Style Sheet
(CSS) in a separate chapter but we used it here to show the usage of <div> tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML div Tag</title>
</head>
<body>

<div style="color:red">
<h4>This is first group</h4>
<p>Following is a list of vegetables</p>
<ul>
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</div>

<div style="color:green">
<h4>This is second group</h4>
<p>Following is a list of fruits</p>
<ul>
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Banana</li>
<li>Mango</li>
<li>Strawberry</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The <span> tag
The HTML <span> is an inline element and it can be used to group inline-elements
in an HTML document. This tag also does not provide any visual change on the
block but has more meaning when it is used with CSS.
The difference between the <span> tag and the <div> tag is that the <span> tag
is used with inline elements whereas the <div> tag is used with block-level
elements.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML span Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is <span style="color:red">red</span> and this is <span

style="color:green">green</span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
Forms are required, when you want to collect some data from the site visitor. For example, during
user registration you would like to collect information such as name, email address, credit card, etc.
A form will take input from the site visitor and then will post it to a back-end application such as CGI,
ASP Script or PHP script etc. The back-end application will perform required processing on the
passed data based on defined business logic inside the application.
There are various form elements available like text fields, textarea fields, drop-down menus, radio
buttons, checkboxes, etc.
The HTML <form> tag is used to create an HTML form and it has following syntax:
<form action="Script URL" method="GET|POST">
form elements like input, textarea etc.
</form>
Attribute Description
Action Backend script ready to process your passed data.
Method to be used to upload data. The most frequently used are GET
Method and
POST methods.
HTML Form Controls
There are different types of form controls that you can use to collect data using
HTML form:
Text Input Controls
• Checkboxes Controls
• Radio Box Controls
• Select Box Controls
• File Select boxes
• Hidden Controls
• Clickable Buttons
• Submit and Reset Button
Text Input Controls
There are three types of text input used on forms:
• Single-line text input controls - This control is used for items that require
only one line of user input, such as search boxes or names. They are created
using HTML <input> tag.
• Password input controls - This is also a single-line text input but it masks
the character as soon as a user enters it. They are also created using HTMl
<input> tag.
• Multi-line text input controls - This is used when the user is required to
give details that may be longer than a single sentence. Multi-line input
controls are created using HTML <textarea> tag.
Single-line text input controls
This control is used for items that require only one line of user input, such as
search boxes or names. They are created using HTML <input> tag.
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <input> tag for creating text field.
Type Indicates the type of input control and for text input control it will be set
totext.
Name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
recognized and get the value.
Value This can be used to provide an initial value inside the control.
Size Allows to specify the width of the text-input control in terms of characters.
maxlength Allows to specify the maximum number of characters a user can enter into
the text box.

Password Input controls
This is also a single-line text input but it masks the character as soon as a user
enters it.
They are also created using HTML <input> tag but type attribute is set to
password.
Example
Here is a basic example of a single-line password input used to take user password:
<form >
User ID : <input type="text" name="user_id" />
<br>
Password: <input type="password" name="password" />
</form>
Multiple-Line Text Input Controls
This is used when the user is required to give details that may be longer than a
single sentence. Multi-line input controls are created using HTML <textarea> tag.
Example
Here is a basic example of a multi-line text input used to take item description:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Multiple-Line Input Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
Description: <br />
<textarea rows="5" cols="50" name="description">
Enter description here...
</textarea>
</form></body></html>
Name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
Rows Indicates the number of rows of text area box.
Cols Indicates the number of columns of text area box
Checkbox Control
Checkboxes are used when more than one option is required to be selected. They
are also created using HTML <input> tag but type attribute is set to checkbox.
Example
Here is an example HTML code for a form with two checkboxes:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Checkbox Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="checkbox" name="maths" value="on"> Maths
<input type="checkbox" name="physics" value="on"> Physics
</form>
</body></html>
Indicates the type of input control and for checkbox input control it
type will be
set to checkbox.
name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be
value The value that will be used if the checkbox is selected.
checked Set to checked if you want to select it by default.
Radio Button Control
Radio buttons are used when out of many options, just one option is required to be selected.
They are also created using HTML <input> tag but type attribute is set to radio.
Indicates the type of input control and for checkbox input control it
type will be set to radio.
value The value that will be used if the radio box is selected.
checked Set to checked if you want to select it by default.
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with two radio buttons:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Radio Box Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="radio" name="subject" value="maths"> Maths
<input type="radio" name="subject" value="physics"> Physics
</form>
</body>
</html>
Select Box Control
A select box, also called drop down box which provides option to list down various
options in the form of drop down list, from where a user can select one or more
options.
Following is the list of important attributes of <select> tag:
size This can be used to present a scrolling list box.
If set to "multiple" then allows a user to select multiple items from

multiple the menu.
Following is the list of important attributes of <option> tag:
The value that will be used if an option in the select box box is
value selected.
Specifies that this option should be the initially selected value when
selected the page loads.
label An alternative way of labeling options
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with one drop down box
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Select Box Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<select name="dropdown">
<option value="Maths" selected>Maths</option>
<option value="Physics">Physics</option>
</select>
</form>
</body></html>
File Upload Box
If you want to allow a user to upload a file to your web site, you will need to use a
file upload box, also known as a file select box. This is also created using the
<input> element but type attribute is set to file.
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with one file upload box:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>File Upload Box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="file" name="fileupload" accept="image/*" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Button Controls
There are various ways in HTML to create clickable buttons. You can also create a
clickable button using <input> tag by setting its type attribute to button. The type
attribute can take the following values:
Type Description
submit This creates a button that automatically submits a form.
Reset
This creates a button that automatically resets form controls to their
initial values.
This creates a button that is used to trigger a client-side script when
button the user clicks that button.
This creates a clickable button but we can use an image as background

image of the button.
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with three types of buttons:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>File Upload Box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> <input

type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" /> <input type="button"
name="ok" value="OK" />
<input type="image" name="imagebutton" src="/html/images/logo.png" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
MARQUEE
HTML marquee is a scrolling piece of text displayed either horizontally across or

vertically down your webpage depending on the settings. This is created by using
HTML <marquees> tag.
Note: The HTML <marquee> tag may not be supported by various browsers so it is
not recommended to rely on this tag, instead you can use JavaScript and CSS to
create such effects.
Syntax
A simple syntax to use HTML <marquee> tag is as follows:
<marquee attribute_name="attribute_value"....more attributes>
One or more lines or text message or image
</marquee>
The <marquee> Tag Attributes
Following is the list of important attributes which can be used with <marquee> tag.
This specifies the width of the marquee. This can be a value like
width 10 or 20% etc.
This specifies the height of the marquee. This can be a value like
height 10 or 20% etc.
This specifies the direction in which marquee should scroll. This

direction can be a value like up, down, left or right.
This specifies the type of scrolling of the marquee. This can have
behavior a value like scroll, slide and alternate.
This specifies how long to delay between each jump. This will
scrolldelay have a value like 10 etc.
scrollamoun This specifies the speed of marquee text. This can have a value
t like 10 etc.
This specifies how many times to loop. The default value is

loop INFINITE, which means that the marquee loops endlessly.
This specifies background color in terms of color name or color hex

bgcolor value.
This specifies horizontal space around the marquee. This can be a

hspace value like 10 or 20% etc.
This specifies vertical space around the marquee. This can be a

vspace value like 10 or 20% etc.
Below are few examples to demonstrate the usage of marquee tag.
Examples - 1
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<marquee>This is basic example of marquee</marquee>
</body>
</html>
HEADER
We have learnt that a typical HTML document will have following structure:
Document declaration tag
<html>
<head>
Document header related tags
</head>
<body>
Document body related tags
</body>
</html>
This chapter will give a little more detail about header part which is represented by
HTML <head> tag. The <head> tag is a container of various important tags like
<title>, <meta>, <link>, <base>, <style>, <script>, and <noscript> tags.
The HTML <title> Tag
The HTML <title> tag is used for specifying the title of the HTML document.
Following is an example to give a title to an HTML document:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Title Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body></html>
The HTML <meta> Tag
The HTML <meta> tag is used to provide metadata about the HTML document
which includes information about page expiry, page author, list of keywords, page
description etc.
Following are few of the important usages of <meta> tag inside an HTMLdocument:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Meta Tag Example</title>

<meta name="keywords" content="C, C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python"

<meta name="description" content="Simply Easy Learning by Tutorials Point">

<meta name="author" content="Tutorials Point">

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 21 June 2006 14:25:27 GMT">
 <meta name="robots" content="noindex,
nofollow">
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
The HTML <style> Tag
The HTML <style> tag is used to specify style sheet for the current HTML
document.
Following is an example to define few style sheet rules inside <style> tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML style Tag Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
.myclass{
background-color: #aaa;
padding: 10px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="myclass">Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
The HTML <script> Tag
The HTML <script> tag is used to include either external script file or to define
internal script for the HTML document. Following is an example where we are using
JavaScript to define a simple JavaScript function:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML script Tag Example</title>
<script type="text/JavaScript">
function Hello(){
alert("Hello, World");
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="Hello();" name="ok" value="OK" />
</body>
</html>
HTML Button Tag
The HTML <button> tag is used for creating a button within HTML form. You can
also use <input> tag to create similar buttons.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Button Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<button name="button" value="OK" type="button">Click Me</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
HTML <canvas> Tag
The HTML <canvas> tag is for drawing graphics, animations etc using scripting.
<body>
<canvas id="newCanvas">Your browser does not support canvas tag.</canvas>
<script>
var c=document.getElementById('newCanvas');
var ctx=c.getContext('2d');
ctx.fillStyle='#00FD00';
ctx.fillRect(0,0,200,60);
</script>
</body>
EXAMPLE: TO DRAW A CIRCLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="200" height="100" style="border:1px solid

#d3d3d3;">
Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas tag.</canvas>
<script>
var c = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctx = c.getContext("2d");
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(95,50,40,0,2*Math.PI);
ctx.stroke();
</script>
</body>
</html>
The HTML <svg> Element
The HTML <svg> element is a container for SVG graphics.
SVG has several methods for drawing paths, boxes, circles, text, and graphic
images.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<!—circle->
<svg width="100" height="100">

<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" stroke="green" stroke-width="4" fill="yellow" />
</svg>
<!—rectangle-->

<rect width="400" height="100" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:10;stroke:rgb(0,0,0)" />
</svg>
<!—rounded rectangle-->

<rect x="50" y="20" rx="20" ry="20" width="150" height="150"
style="fill:red;stroke:black;stroke-width:5;opacity:0.5" />
</svg>


<polygon points="100,10 40,198 190,78 10,78 160,198"
style="fill:lime;stroke:purple;stroke-width:5;fill-rule:evenodd;" />
</svg>
</body>
</html>
The HTML <video> Element

To show a video in HTML, use the <video> element:
<video width="320" height="240" controls>

<source src="path/filename.extention " type="video/(extention of the file)">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
The HTML <audio> Element
To play an audio file in HTML, use the <audio> element:
<audio controls>
<source src="filename.extention/path" type="audio/(extention)">
< Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
HTML <footer> Tag

<footer>
<p>Posted by: aaaaa</p>
<p>Contact information: <a href="(path for example) ">
someone@example.com</a>.</p>
</footer>
HTML <progress> Tag

Shows you the progress what is done.
<label for="file">Downloading progress:</label>

<progress id="file" value="32" max="100"> 32% </progress>
HTML <legend> and <fieldset>Tag

The <fieldset> tag is used to group related elements in a form.
The <fieldset> tag draws a box around the related elements.
The <legend> tag defines a caption for the <fieldset> element.

<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>Personalia:</legend>
Name: <input type="text"><br>
Email: <input type="text"><br>
Date of birth: <input type="text">
</fieldset>
</form>
HTML <embed> Tag
The <embed> tag defines a container for an external application or
interactive content (a plug-in).
<embed src="helloworld.swf">
HTML <datalist> Tag
The <datalist> tag specifies a list of pre-defined options for an <input>

element.
The <datalist> tag is used to provide an "autocomplete" feature on <input>

elements. Users will see a drop-down list of pre-defined options as they
input data.
Use the <input> element's list attribute to bind it together with a <datalist>
element.
<input list="browsers">
<datalist id="browsers">
<option value="Internet Explorer">
<option value="Firefox">
<option value="Chrome">
<option value="Opera">
<option value="Safari">
</datalist>
HTML <article> Tag
The <article> tag specifies independent, self-contained content.
An article should make sense on its own and it should be possible to

distribute it independently from the rest of the site.
Potential sources for the <article> element:
• Forum post
• Blog post
• News story
• Comment
<article>
<h1>Google Chrome</h1>
<p>Google Chrome is a free, open-source web browser developed by
Google, released in 2008.</p>
</article>
HTML <blockquote> Tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/index.html">
For 50 years, WWF has been protecting the future of nature. The world's
leading conservation organization, WWF works in 100 countries and is
supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million
globally.
</blockquote>
The <blockquote> tag specifies a section that is quoted from another

source.
Browsers usually indent <blockquote> elements.

HTML Notes

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

HTML Notes

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

HTML Notes

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

HTML

Basic HTML Document

In its simplest form, following is an example of an HTML document:

<title>This is document title</title>

<p>Document content goes here.....</p>

Above example of HTML document uses the following tags:

This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly

of document header which is represented by

document body which is represented by <body>...</body>

The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention

This tag represents the document's body which keeps other

<p> This tag represents a paragraph.

The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration

<h1>This is heading 1</h1>

<h2>This is heading 2</h2>

<h3>This is heading 3</h3>

<h4>This is heading 4</h4>

<h5>This is heading 5</h5>

<h6>This is heading 6</h6>

<p>Here is a first paragraph of text.</p>

<p>Here is a third paragraph of text.</p>

<p>Here is a second paragraph of text.</p>

An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."

<p>An example of this technique appears in the

Start Tag Content End Tag

<p> This is paragraph content. </p>

<h1> This is heading content. </h1>

<div> This is division content. </div>

So here <p>....</p> is an HTML element, <h1>...</h1> is another HTML

HTML Tag vs. Element

An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the element contains other

<p align="left">This is left aligned</p>

<p align="center">This is center aligned</p>

<p align="right">This is right aligned</p>

• If an element carries an id attribute as a unique identifier, it is possible to

<p id="html">This para explains what is HTML</p>

<p id="css">This para explains what is Cascading Style Sheet</p>

The title Attribute

<h3 title="Hello HTML!">Titled Heading Tag Example</h3>

The class Attribute

class="className1 className2 className3"

<title>The style Attribute</title>

<p style="font-family:arial; color:#FF0000;">Some text...</p>

This will produce the following result:

Attribute Options Function

align right, left, center Horizontally aligns tags

valign top, middle, bottom Vertically aligns tags within an HTML

Places a background image behind

Names an element for use with

Classifies an element for use with

Anything that appears within <b>...</b> element, is displayed in bold as shown

<p>The following word uses a <b>bold</b> typeface.</p>

Anything that appears within <i>...</i> element is displayed in italicized as shown

<p>The following word uses a <i>italicized</i> typeface.</p>

Anything that appears within <u>...</u> element, is displayed with underline as

<p>The following word uses a <u>underlined</u> typeface.</p>

Anything that appears within <strike>...</strike> element is displayed with

<p>The following word uses a <strike>strikethrough</strike> typeface.</p>