HTML - Quick Guide
HTML - Quick Guide
HTML - Overview
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.
Live Demo
<!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>
This is a heading
Document content goes here.....
HTML 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 −
1 <!DOCTYPE...>
2 <html>
This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises of document header which is
represented by <head>...</head> and document body which is represented by <body>...</body> tags.
3 <head>
This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML tags like <title>, <link> etc.
4 <title>
The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the document title.
5 <body>
This tag represents the document's body which keeps other HTML tags like <h1>, <div>, <p> etc.
6 <h1>
7 <p>
To learn HTML, you will need to study various tags and understand how they behave, while formatting a textual
document. Learning HTML is simple as users have to learn the usage of different tags in order to format the text
or images to make a beautiful webpage.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends to use lowercase tags starting from HTML 4.
<html>
<head>
Document header related tags
</head>
<body>
Document body related tags
</body>
</html>
We will study all the header and body tags in subsequent chapters, but for now let's see what is document
declaration tag.
<!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
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Heading Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<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>
</body>
</html>
This is heading 4
This is heading 5
This is heading 6
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
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Paragraph Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here is a first paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a second paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a third paragraph of text.</p>
</body>
</html>
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.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Line Break Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello<br />
You delivered your assignment ontime.<br />
Thanks<br />
Mahnaz</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello
You delivered your assignment on time.
Thanks
Mahnaz
Centering Content
You can use <center> tag to put any content in the center of the page or any table cell.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Centring Content Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This text is not in the center.</p>
<center>
<p>This text is in the center.</p>
</center>
</body>
</html>
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.
For example, you may want to give a line between two paragraphs as in the given example below −
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Horizontal Line Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is paragraph one and should be on top</p>
<hr />
<p>This is paragraph two and should be at bottom</p>
</body>
</html>
Again <hr /> tag is an example of the empty element, where you do not need opening and closing tags, as there
is nothing to go in between them.
The <hr /> element has a space between the characters hr and the forward slash. If you omit this space, older
browsers will have trouble rendering the horizontal line, while if you miss the forward slash character and just use
<hr> it is not valid in XHTML
Preserve Formatting
Sometimes, you want your text to follow the exact format of how it is written in the HTML document. In these
cases, you can use the preformatted tag <pre>.
Any text between the opening <pre> tag and the closing </pre> tag will preserve the formatting of the source
document.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Preserve Formatting Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<pre>
function testFunction( strText ){
alert (strText)
}
</pre>
</body>
</html>
Try using the same code without keeping it inside <pre>...</pre> tags
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 −
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 the following code −
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Nonbreaking Spaces Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result −
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 −
<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 documents consists of a tree of these elements and they specify how HTML documents should be built,
and what kind of content should be placed in what part of an HTML document.
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.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Nested Elements Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is <i>italic</i> heading</h1>
<p>This is <u>underlined</u> paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
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.
Attribute names and attribute values are case-insensitive. However, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
recommends lowercase attributes/attribute values in their HTML 4 recommendation.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Align Attribute Example</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.
We will discuss style sheet in separate tutorial. For now, let's use the id attribute to distinguish between two
paragraph elements as shown below.
Example
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.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The title Attribute Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3 title = "Hello HTML!">Titled Heading Tag Example</h3>
</body>
</html>
Now try to bring your cursor over "Titled Heading Tag Example" and you will see that whatever title you used in
your code is coming out as a tooltip of the cursor.
The value of the attribute may also be a space-separated list of class names. For example −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>The style Attribute</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style = "font-family:arial; color:#FF0000;">Some text...</p>
</body>
</html>
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.
Internationalization Attributes
There are three internationalization attributes, which are available for most (although not all) XHTML elements.
dir
lang
xml:lang
Value Meaning
rtl Right to left (for languages such as Hebrew or Arabic that are read right to left)
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir = "rtl">
<head>
<title>Display Directions</title>
</head>
<body>
This is how IE 5 renders right-to-left directed text.
</body>
</html>
When dir attribute is used within the <html> tag, it determines how text will be presented within the entire
document. When used within another tag, it controls the text's direction for just the content of that tag.
The values of the lang attribute are ISO-639 standard two-character language codes. Check HTML Language
Codes: ISO 639 for a complete list of language codes.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang = "en">
<head>
<title>English Language Page</title>
</head>
<body>
This page is using English Language
</body>
</html>
Generic Attributes
Here's a table of some other attributes that are readily usable with many of the HTML tags.
valign top, middle, bottom Vertically aligns tags within an HTML element.
bgcolor numeric, hexidecimal, RGB values Places a background color behind an element
id User Defined Names an element for use with Cascading Style Sheets.
class User Defined Classifies an element for use with Cascading Style Sheets.
width Numeric Value Specifies the width of tables, images, or table cells.
height Numeric Value Specifies the height of tables, images, or table cells.
We will see related examples as we will proceed to study other HTML tags. For a complete list of HTML Tags and
related attributes please check reference to HTML Tags List .
HTML - Formatting
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 −
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Bold Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <b>bold</b> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result −
Italic Text
Anything that appears within <i>...</i> element is displayed in italicized as shown below −
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Italic Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses an <i>italicized</i> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
Underlined Text
Anything that appears within <u>...</u> element, is displayed with underline as shown below −
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Underlined Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses an <u>underlined</u> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
Strike Text
Anything that appears within <strike>...</strike> element is displayed with strikethrough, which is a thin line
through the text as shown below −
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Strike Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <strike>strikethrough</strike> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
Monospaced Font
The content of a <tt>...</tt> element is written in monospaced font. Most of the fonts are known as variable-width
fonts because different letters are of different widths (for example, the letter 'm' is wider than the letter 'i'). In a
monospaced font, however, each letter has the same width.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Monospaced Font Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <tt>monospaced</tt> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
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.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Superscript Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <sup>superscript</sup> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
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.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Subscript Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <sub>subscript</sub> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
Inserted Text
Anything that appears within <ins>...</ins> element is displayed as inserted text.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Inserted Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>I want to drink <del>cola</del> <ins>wine</ins></p>
</body>
</html>
Deleted Text
Anything that appears within <del>...</del> element, is displayed as deleted text.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Deleted Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>I want to drink <del>cola</del> <ins>wine</ins></p>
</body>
</html>
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 −
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Larger Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <big>big</big> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
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 −
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Smaller Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <small>small</small> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
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
Live Demo
<!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>
</html>
Content Articles
The <span> element, on the other hand, can be used to group inline elements only. So, if you have a part of a
sentence or paragraph which you want to group together, you could use the <span> element as follows.
Example
Live Demo
<!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>
This is the example of span tag and the div tag alongwith CSS
These tags are commonly used with CSS to allow you to attach a style to a section of a page.
Emphasized Text
Anything that appears within <em>...</em> element is displayed as emphasized text.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Emphasized Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses an <em>emphasized</em> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
Marked Text
Anything that appears with-in <mark>...</mark> element, is displayed as marked with yellow ink.
Example
Live Demo
<!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
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Strong Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <strong>strong</strong> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
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
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Abbreviation</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>My best friend's name is <abbr title = "Abhishek">Abhy</abbr>.</p>
</body>
</html>
Acronym Element
The <acronym> element allows you to indicate that the text between <acronym> and </acronym> tags is an
acronym.
At present, the major browsers do not change the appearance of the content of the <acronym> element.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Acronym Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This chapter covers marking up text in <acronym>XHTML</acronym>.</p>
</body>
</html>
Text Direction
The <bdo>...</bdo> element stands for Bi-Directional Override and it is used to override the current text
direction.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Direction Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This text will go left to right.</p>
<p><bdo dir = "rtl">This text will go right to left.</bdo></p>
</body>
</html>
Special Terms
The <dfn>...</dfn> element (or HTML Definition Element) allows you to specify that you are introducing a special
term. It's usage is similar to italic words in the midst of a paragraph.
Typically, you would use the <dfn> element the first time you introduce a key term. Most recent browsers render
the content of a <dfn> element in an italic font.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Special Terms Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word is a <dfn>special</dfn> term.</p>
</body>
</html>
Quoting Text
When you want to quote a passage from another source, you should put it in between <blockquote>...
</blockquote> tags.
Text inside a <blockquote> element is usually indented from the left and right edges of the surrounding text, and
sometimes uses an italicized font.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Blockquote Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C Web site:</p>
</html>
The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C Web site:
XHTML 1.0 is the W3C's first Recommendation for XHTML, following on from
earlier work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0.
Short Quotations
The <q>...</q> element is used when you want to add a double quote within a sentence.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Double Quote Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Amit is in Spain, <q>I think I am wrong</q>.</p>
</body>
</html>
Text Citations
If you are quoting a text, you can indicate the source placing it between an opening <cite> tag and closing
</cite> tag
As you would expect in a print publication, the content of the <cite> element is rendered in italicized text by
default.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Citations Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This HTML tutorial is derived from <cite>W3 Standard for HTML</cite>.</p>
</body>
</html>
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
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Computer Code Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Regular text. <code>This is code.</code> Regular text.</p>
</body>
</html>
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
Live Demo
<!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>
Programming Variables
This element is usually used in conjunction with the <pre> and <code> elements to indicate that the content of
that element is a variable.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Variable Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><code>document.write("<var>user-name</var>")</code></p>
</body>
</html>
Program Output
The <samp>...</samp> element indicates sample output from a program, and script etc. Again, it is mainly used
when documenting programming or coding concepts.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Program Output Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Result produced by the program is <samp>Hello World!</samp></p>
</body>
</html>
Address Text
The <address>...</address> element is used to contain any address.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Address Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<address>388A, Road No 22, Jubilee Hills - Hyderabad</address>
</body>
</html>
The <meta> tag is used to provide such additional information. This tag is an empty element and so does not
have a closing tag but it carries information within its attributes.
You can include one or more meta tags in your document based on what information you want to keep in your
document but in general, meta tags do not impact physical appearance of the document so from appearance
point of view, it does not matter if you include them or not.
1
Name
Name for the property. Can be anything. Examples include, keywords, description, author, revised,
generator etc.
2
content
3
scheme
Specifies a scheme to interpret the property's value (as declared in the content attribute).
4
http-equiv
Used for http response message headers. For example, http-equiv can be used to refresh the page or
to set a cookie. Values include content-type, expires, refresh and set-cookie.
Specifying Keywords
You can use <meta> tag to specify important keywords related to the document and later these keywords are
used by the search engines while indexing your webpage for searching purpose.
Example
Following is an example, where we are adding HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata as important keywords about the
document.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name = "keywords" content = "HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Document Description
You can use <meta> tag to give a short description about the document. This again can be used by various
search engines while indexing your webpage for searching purpose.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name = "keywords" content = "HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name = "description" content = "Learning about Meta Tags." />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name = "keywords" content = "HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name = "description" content = "Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta name = "revised" content = "Tutorialspoint, 3/7/2014" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Document Refreshing
A <meta> tag can be used to specify a duration after which your web page will keep refreshing automatically.
Example
If you want your page keep refreshing after every 5 seconds then use the following syntax.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name = "keywords" content = "HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name = "description" content = "Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta name = "revised" content = "Tutorialspoint, 3/7/2014" />
<meta http-equiv = "refresh" content = "5" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Page Redirection
You can use <meta> tag to redirect your page to any other webpage. You can also specify a duration if you want
to redirect the page after a certain number of seconds.
Example
Following is an example of redirecting current page to another page after 5 seconds. If you want to redirect page
immediately then do not specify content attribute.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name = "keywords" content = "HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name = "description" content = "Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta name = "revised" content = "Tutorialspoint, 3/7/2014" />
<meta http-equiv = "refresh" content = "5; url = http://www.tutorialspoint.com" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Setting Cookies
Cookies are data, stored in small text files on your computer and it is exchanged between web browser and web
server to keep track of various information based on your web application need.
You can use <meta> tag to store cookies on client side and later this information can be used by the Web Server
to track a site visitor.
Example
Following is an example of redirecting current page to another page after 5 seconds. If you want to redirect page
immediately then do not specify content attribute.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta http-equiv = "cookie" content = "userid = xyz; expires = Wednesday, 08-Aug-15 23:59:
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
If you do not include the expiration date and time, the cookie is considered a session cookie and will be deleted
when the user exits the browser.
Note − You can check PHP and Cookies tutorial for a complete detail on Cookies.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name = "keywords" content = "HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name = "description" content = "Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta name = "author" content = "Mahnaz Mohtashim" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
Example
By default, Web servers and Web browsers use ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) encoding to process Web pages. Following
is an example to set UTF-8 encoding −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name = "keywords" content = "HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name = "description" content = "Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta name = "author" content = "Mahnaz Mohtashim" />
<meta http-equiv = "Content-Type" content = "text/html; charset = UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
To serve the static page with traditional Chinese characters, the webpage must contain a <meta> tag to set Big5
encoding −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Meta Tags Example</title>
<meta name = "keywords" content = "HTML, Meta Tags, Metadata" />
<meta name = "description" content = "Learning about Meta Tags." />
<meta name = "author" content = "Mahnaz Mohtashim" />
<meta http-equiv = "Content-Type" content = "text/html; charset = Big5" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello HTML5!</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML - Comments
Comment is a piece of code which is ignored by any web browser. It is a good practice to add comments into your
HTML code, especially in complex documents, to indicate sections of a document, and any other notes to anyone
looking at the code. Comments help you and others understand your code and increases code readability.
HTML comments are placed in between <!-- ... --> tags. So, any content placed with-in <!-- ... --> tags will be
treated as comment and will be completely ignored by the browser.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result without displaying the content given as a part of comments −
Example
Here, the given comment is a valid comment and will be wiped off by the browser.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Valid Comment Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- This is valid comment -->
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>
But, following line is not a valid comment and will be displayed by the browser. This is because there is a space
between the left angle bracket and the exclamation mark.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Invalid Comment Example</title>
</head>
<body>
< !-- This is not a valid comment -->
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>
You can comment multiple lines by the special beginning tag <!-- and ending tag --> placed before the first line
and end of the last line as shown in the given example below.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Multiline Comments</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--
This is a multiline comment and it can
span through as many as lines you like.
-->
</html>
Conditional Comments
Conditional comments only work in Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows but they are ignored by other browsers.
They are supported from Explorer 5 onwards, and you can use them to give conditional instructions to different
versions of IE.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Conditional Comments</title>
<!--[if IE 6]>
Special instructions for IE 6 here
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>
You will come across a situation where you will need to apply a different style sheet based on different versions of
Internet Explorer, in such situation conditional comments will be helpful.
Note − The <comment> tag deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this element.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Comment Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is <comment>not</comment> Internet Explorer.</p>
</body>
</html>
But if you are not using IE, then it will produce following result −
This is not Internet Explorer.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Commenting Script Code</title>
<script>
<!--
document.write("Hello World!")
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello , World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello World!
Hello , World!
Commenting Style Sheets
Though you will learn using style sheets with HTML in a separate tutorial, but here you must make a note that if
you are using Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) in your HTML code then it is recommended to put that style sheet
code inside proper HTML comments so that old browsers can work properly.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Commenting Style Sheets</title>
<style>
<!--
.example {
border:1px solid #4a7d49;
}
//-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class = "example">Hello , World!</div>
</body>
</html>
Hello , World!
HTML - Images
Images are very important to beautify as well as to depict many complex concepts in simple way on your web
page. This tutorial will take you through simple steps to use images in your web pages.
Insert Image
You can insert any image in your web page by using <img> tag. Following is the simple syntax to use this tag.
Example
To try following example, let's keep our HTML file test.htm and image file test.png in the same directory −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Image in Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Simple Image Insert</p>
<img src = "/html/images/test.png" alt = "Test Image" />
</body>
</html>
You can use PNG, JPEG or GIF image file based on your comfort but make sure you specify correct image file
name in src attribute. Image name is always case sensitive.
The alt attribute is a mandatory attribute which specifies an alternate text for an image, if the image cannot be
displayed.
Example
Assuming our image location is "image/test.png", try the following example −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Using Image in Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Simple Image Insert</p>
<img src = "/html/images/test.png" alt = "Test Image" />
</body>
</html>
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Set Image Width and Height</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Setting image width and height</p>
<img src = "/html/images/test.png" alt = "Test Image" width = "150" height = "100"/>
</body>
</html>
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Set Image Border</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Setting image Border</p>
<img src = "/html/images/test.png" alt = "Test Image" border = "3"/>
</body>
</html>
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Set Image Alignment</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Setting image Alignment</p>
<img src = "/html/images/test.png" alt = "Test Image" border = "3" align = "right"/>
</body>
</html>
HTML - Tables
The 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. The elements under <td> are regular and left aligned by default
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Tables</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
<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. Headings, which are defined in <th> tag are centered and bold by default.
Example
Live Demo
<!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>
Name Salary
Ramesh Raman 5000
Shabbir Hussein 7000
Example
Live Demo
<!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>
Name Salary
Example
Live Demo
<!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.
Note − The bgcolor, background, and bordercolor attributes deprecated in HTML5. Do not use these
attributes.
Example
Live Demo
<!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.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Background</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1" bordercolor = "green" background = "/images/test.png">
<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>
This will produce the following result. Here background image did not apply to table's header.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Width/Height</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1" width = "400" height = "150">
<tr>
<td>Row 1, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 1, Column 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table Caption</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1" width = "100%">
<caption>This is the caption</caption>
<tr>
<td>row 1, column 1</td><td>row 1, columnn 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, column 1</td><td>row 2, columnn 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The three elements for separating the head, body, and foot of a table are −
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
Live Demo
<!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>
<td colspan = "4">This is the foot of the table</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 2</td>
<td>Cell 3</td>
<td>Cell 4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result −
Nested Tables
You can use one table inside another table. Not only tables you can use almost all the tags inside table data tag
<td>.
Example
Following is the example of using another table and other tags inside a table cell.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Table</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border = "1" width = "100%">
<tr>
<td>
<table border = "1" width = "100%">
<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>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Name Salary
Ramesh Raman 5000
Shabbir Hussein 7000
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.
Example
Live Demo
<!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>
Example
Following is an example where we used <ul type = "square">
Live Demo
<!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>
Example
Following is an example where we used <ul type = "disc"> −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul type = "disc">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Beetroot
Ginger
Potato
Radish
Example
Following is an example where we used <ul type = "circle"> −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Unordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul type = "circle">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Beetroot
Ginger
Potato
Radish
Example
Live Demo
<!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>
1. Beetroot
2. Ginger
3. Potato
4. Radish
Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type = "1">
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type = "1">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type = "I">
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type = "I">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
I. Beetroot
II. Ginger
III. Potato
IV. Radish
Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type = "i">
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type = "i">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
i. Beetroot
ii. Ginger
iii. Potato
iv. Radish
Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type = "A" >
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type = "A">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type = "a">
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type = "a">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
a. Beetroot
b. Ginger
c. Potato
d. Radish
Example
Following is an example where we used <ol type = "i" start = "4" >
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Ordered List</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type = "i" start = "4">
<li>Beetroot</li>
<li>Ginger</li>
<li>Potato</li>
<li>Radish</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
iv. Beetroot
v. Ginger
vi. Potato
vii. Radish
Example
Live Demo
<!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
Hyperlinks allow visitors to navigate between Web sites by clicking on words, phrases, and images. Thus you can
create hyperlinks using text or images available on a webpage.
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.
Example
Let's try following example which links http://www.tutorialspoint.com at your page −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com" target = "_self">Tutorials Point</a>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result, where you can click on the link generated to reach to the home page of
Tutorials Point (in this example).
Tutorials Point
1
_blank
2
_self
3
_parent
4
_top
5
targetframe
Example
Try following example to understand basic difference in few options given for target attribute.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
<base href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/">
</head>
<body>
<p>Click any of the following links</p>
<a href = "/html/index.htm" target = "_blank">Opens in New</a> |
<a href = "/html/index.htm" target = "_self">Opens in Self</a> |
<a href = "/html/index.htm" target = "_parent">Opens in Parent</a> |
<a href = "/html/index.htm" 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.
Click any of the following links
Example
Following example makes use of <base> tag to specify base URL and later we can use relative path to all the
links instead of giving complete URL for every link.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
<base href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/">
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href = "/html/index.htm" target = "_blank">HTML Tutorial</a>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result, where you can click on the link generated HTML Tutorial to reach to the
HTML tutorial.
HTML Tutorial
Note − The name attribute deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this attribute. Use id and title attribute instead.
First create a link to the place where you want to reach with-in a webpage and name it using <a...> tag as follows
−
Second step is to create a hyperlink to link the document and place where you want to reach −
This will produce following link, where you can click on the link generated Go to the Top to reach to the top of the
HTML Text Link tutorial.
Go to the Top
Example
Save the following in test.htm and open it in any web browser to see how link, alink and vlink attributes work.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
<base href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/">
</head>
</html>
This will produce the following result. Just check color of the link before clicking on it, next check its color when
you activate it and when the link has been visited.
HTML Tutorial
Download Links
You can create text link to make your PDF, or DOC or ZIP files downloadable. This is very simple; you just need
to give complete URL of the downloadable file as follows −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/page.pdf">Download PDF File</a>
</body>
</html>
This will produce following link and will be used to download a file.
For example, if you want make a Filename file downloadable from a given link then its syntax will be as follows.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Open the target file and list down its content as follows
open( FILE, "<FileName" );
Note − For more detail on PERL CGI programs, go through tutorial PERL and CGI .
Example
It's simple to use an image as hyperlink. We just need to use an image inside hyperlink at the place of text as
shown below −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Image Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com" target = "_self">
<img src = "/images/logo.png" alt = "Tutorials Point" border = "0"/>
</a>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result, where you can click on the images to reach to the home page of Tutorials
Point.
Click following link
This was the simplest way of creating hyperlinks using images. Next we will see how we can create Mouse-
Sensitive Image Links.
Mouse-Sensitive Images
The HTML and XHTML standards provides a feature that lets you embed many different links inside a single
image. You can create different links on the single image based on different coordinates available on the image.
Once different links are attached to different coordinates, we can click different parts of the image to open target
documents. Such mouse-sensitive images are known as image maps.
Server-side image maps − This is enabled by the ismap attribute of the <img> tag and requires access to a
server and related image-map processing applications.
Client-side image maps − This is created with the usemap attribute of the <img> tag, along with
corresponding <map> and <area> tags.
When ismap is used, the href attribute of the containing <a> tag must contain the URL of a server application like
a cgi or PHP script etc. to process the incoming request based on the passed coordinates.
The coordinates of the mouse position are screen pixels counted from the upper-left corner of the image,
beginning with (0,0). The coordinates, preceded by a question mark, are added to the end of the URL.
For example, if a user clicks 20 pixels over and 30 pixels down from the upper-left corner of the following image −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>ISMAP Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click following link</p>
<a href = "/cgi-bin/ismap.cgi" target = "_self">
<img ismap src = "/images/logo.png" alt = "Tutorials Point" border = "0"/>
</a>
</body>
</html>
Then the browser sends the following search parameters to the web server which can be processed by
ismap.cgi script or map file and you can link whatever documents you like to these coordinates −
/cgi-bin/ismap.cgi?20,30
This way you can assign different links to different coordinates of the image and when those coordinates are
clicked, you can open corresponding linked document. To learn more about ismap attribute, you can check How
to use Image ismap?
Note − You will learn CGI programming when you will study Perl programming. You can write your script to
process these passed coordinates using PHP or any other script as well. For now, let's concentrate on
learning HTML and later you can revisit this section.
The image that is going to form the map is inserted into the page using the <img /> tag as a normal image, except
it carries an extra attribute called usemap. The value of the usemap attribute is the value which will be used in a
<map> tag to link map and image tags. The <map> along with <area> tags define all the image coordinates and
corresponding links.
The <area> tag inside the map tag, specifies the shape and the coordinates to define the boundaries of each
clickable hotspot available on the image. Here's an example from the image map −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>USEMAP Hyperlink Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Search and click the hotspot</p>
<img src = /images/html.gif alt = "HTML Map" border = "0" usemap = "#html"/>
<!-- Create Mappings -->
</html>
Coordinate System
The actual value of coords is totally dependent on the shape in question. Here is a summary, to be followed by
detailed examples −
rect = x1 , y1 , x2 , y2
x1 and y1 are the coordinates of the upper left corner of the rectangle; x2 and y2 are the coordinates of the
lower right corner.
circle = xc , yc , radius
xc and yc are the coordinates of the center of the circle, and radius is the circle's radius. A circle centered at
200,50 with a radius of 25 would have the attribute coords = "200,50,25"
poly = x1 , y1 , x2 , y2 , x3 , y3 , ... xn , yn
The various x-y pairs define vertices (points) of the polygon, with a "line" being drawn from one point to the
next point. A diamond-shaped polygon with its top point at 20,20 and 40 pixels across at its widest points
would have the attribute coords = "20,20,40,40,20,60,0,40".
All coordinates are relative to the upper-left corner of the image (0,0). Each shape has a related URL. You can
use any image software to know the coordinates of different positions.
You can have another option to facilitate people to send you emails. One option could be to use HTML forms to
collect user data and then use PHP or CGI script to send an email.
A simple example, check our Contact Us Form. We take user feedback using this form and then we are using
one CGI program which is collecting this information and sending us email to the one given email ID.
Note − You will learn about HTML Forms in HTML Forms and you will learn about CGI in our another tutorial
Perl CGI Programming .
This code will generate the following link which you can use to send email.
Send Email
Now, if a user clicks this link, it launches one Email Client (like Lotus Notes, Outlook Express etc. ) installed on
your user's computer. There is another risk to use this option to send email because if user do not have email
client installed on their computer then it would not be possible to send email.
Default Settings
You can specify a default email subject and email body along with your email address. Following is the example
to use default subject and body.
This code will generate the following link which you can use to send email.
Send Feedback
HTML - Frames
HTML frames are used to divide your browser window into multiple sections where each section can load a
separate HTML document. A collection of frames in the browser window is known as a frameset. The window is
divided into frames in a similar way the tables are organized: into rows and columns.
Disadvantages of Frames
There are few drawbacks with using frames, so it's never recommended to use frames in your webpages −
Some smaller devices cannot cope with frames often because their screen is not big enough to be divided
up.
Sometimes your page will be displayed differently on different computers due to different screen resolution.
The browser's back button might not work as the user hopes.
There are still few browsers that do not support frame technology.
Creating Frames
To use frames on a page we use <frameset> tag instead of <body> tag. The <frameset> tag defines, how to
divide the window into frames. The rows attribute of <frameset> tag defines horizontal frames and cols attribute
defines vertical frames. Each frame is indicated by <frame> tag and it defines which HTML document shall open
into the frame.
Note − The <frame> tag deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this element.
Example
Following is the example to create three horizontal frames −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Frames</title>
</head>
<noframes>
<body>Your browser does not support frames.</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Main Frame
Print Page
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Example
Let's put the above example as follows, here we replaced rows attribute by cols and changed their width. This will
create all the three frames vertically −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Frames</title>
</head>
<noframes>
<body>Your browser does not support frames.</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
cols
Specifies how many columns are contained in the frameset and the size of each column. You can
specify the width of each column in one of the four ways −
Absolute values in pixels. For example, to create three vertical frames, use cols = "100, 500, 100".
A percentage of the browser window. For example, to create three vertical frames, use cols = "10%,
80%, 10%".
1
Using a wildcard symbol. For example, to create three vertical frames, use cols = "10%, *, 10%". In this
case wildcard takes remainder of the window.
As relative widths of the browser window. For example, to create three vertical frames, use cols = "3*,
2*, 1*". This is an alternative to percentages. You can use relative widths of the browser window. Here
the window is divided into sixths: the first column takes up half of the window, the second takes one
third, and the third takes one sixth.
rows
This attribute works just like the cols attribute and takes the same values, but it is used to specify the
2
rows in the frameset. For example, to create two horizontal frames, use rows = "10%, 90%". You can
specify the height of each row in the same way as explained above for columns.
border
3 This attribute specifies the width of the border of each frame in pixels. For example, border = "5". A
value of zero means no border.
frameborder
4 This attribute specifies whether a three-dimensional border should be displayed between frames. This
attribute takes value either 1 (yes) or 0 (no). For example frameborder = "0" specifies no border.
framespacing
This attribute specifies the amount of space between frames in a frameset. This can take any integer
5
value. For example framespacing = "10" means there should be 10 pixels spacing between each
frames.
src
1 This attribute is used to give the file name that should be loaded in the frame. Its value can be any
URL. For example, src = "/html/top_frame.htm" will load an HTML file available in html directory.
name
This attribute allows you to give a name to a frame. It is used to indicate which frame a document
2 should be loaded into. This is especially important when you want to create links in one frame that load
pages into an another frame, in which case the second frame needs a name to identify itself as the
target of the link.
frameborder
This attribute specifies whether or not the borders of that frame are shown; it overrides the value given
3
in the frameborder attribute on the <frameset> tag if one is given, and this can take values either 1
(yes) or 0 (no).
marginwidth
4 This attribute allows you to specify the width of the space between the left and right of the frame's
borders and the frame's content. The value is given in pixels. For example marginwidth = "10".
marginheight
5 This attribute allows you to specify the height of the space between the top and bottom of the frame's
borders and its contents. The value is given in pixels. For example marginheight = "10".
noresize
6 By default, you can resize any frame by clicking and dragging on the borders of a frame. The noresize
attribute prevents a user from being able to resize the frame. For example noresize = "noresize".
scrolling
7 This attribute controls the appearance of the scrollbars that appear on the frame. This takes values
either "yes", "no" or "auto". For example scrolling = "no" means it should not have scroll bars.
longdesc
8 This attribute allows you to provide a link to another page containing a long description of the contents
of the frame. For example longdesc = "framedescription.htm"
You can put some nice message for your user having old browsers. For example, Sorry!! your browser does not
support frames. as shown in the above example.
Let's see following example where a test.htm file has following code −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Target Frames</title>
</head>
<noframes>
<body>Your browser does not support frames.</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Here, we have created two columns to fill with two frames. The first frame is 200 pixels wide and will contain the
navigation menu bar implemented by menu.htm file. The second column fills in remaining space and will contain
the main part of the page and it is implemented by main.htm file. For all the three links available in menu bar, we
have mentioned target frame as main_page, so whenever you click any of the links in menu bar, available link
will open in main page.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
</html>
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
</html>
Google
This is main page and content from any link will be
Microsoft displayed here.
BBC News So now click any link and see the result.
Now you can try to click links available in the left panel and see the result. The targetattribute can also take one of
the following values −
Sr.No Option & Description
_self
1
Loads the page into the current frame.
_blank
2
Loads a page into a new browser window. Opening a new window.
_parent
3 Loads the page into the parent window, which in the case of a single frameset is the main browser
window.
_top
4
Loads the page into the browser window, replacing any current frames.
targetframe
5
Loads the page into a named targetframe.
HTML - Iframes
You can define an inline frame with HTML tag <iframe>. The <iframe> tag is not somehow related to <frameset>
tag, instead, it can appear anywhere in your document. The <iframe> tag defines a rectangular region within the
document in which the browser can display a separate document, including scrollbars and borders. An inline
frame is used to embed another document within the current HTML document.
The src attribute is used to specify the URL of the document that occupies the inline frame.
Example
Following is the example to show how to use the <iframe> −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Iframes</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Document content goes here...</p>
</html>
Microsoft
BBC News
Print Page
Note − The frameborder, marginwidth, longdesc, scrolling, marginheight attributes deprecated in HTML5. Do
not use these attributes.
Sr.No Attribute & Description
1
src
This attribute is used to give the file name that should be loaded in the frame. Its value can be any
URL. For example, src = "/html/top_frame.htm" will load an HTML file available in html directory.
2
name
This attribute allows you to give a name to a frame. It is used to indicate which frame a document
should be loaded into. This is especially important when you want to create links in one frame that load
pages into an another frame, in which case the second frame needs a name to identify itself as the
target of the link.
3
frameborder
This attribute specifies whether or not the borders of that frame are shown; it overrides the value given
in the frameborder attribute on the <frameset> tag if one is given, and this can take values either 1
(yes) or 0 (no).
4
marginwidth
This attribute allows you to specify the width of the space between the left and right of the frame's
borders and the frame's content. The value is given in pixels. For example marginwidth = "10".
5
marginheight
This attribute allows you to specify the height of the space between the top and bottom of the frame's
borders and its contents. The value is given in pixels. For example marginheight = "10".
6
height
7
scrolling
This attribute controls the appearance of the scrollbars that appear on the frame. This takes values
either "yes", "no" or "auto". For example scrolling = "no" means it should not have scroll bars.
8
longdesc
This attribute allows you to provide a link to another page containing a long description of the contents
of the frame. For example longdesc = "framedescription.htm"
9
width
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.
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 −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML div Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- First group of tags -->
<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>
<ul>
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Banana</li>
<li>Mango</li>
<li>Strawberry</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Beetroot
Ginger
Potato
Radish
Apple
Banana
Mango
Strawberry
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
Following is a simple example of <span> tag. We will learn Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) in a separate chapter
but we used it here to show the usage of <span> tag −
Live Demo
<!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>
HTML - Backgrounds
By default, your webpage background is white in color. You may not like it, but no worries. HTML provides you
following two good ways to decorate your webpage background.
Now let's see both the approaches one by one using appropriate examples.
Note − The bgcolor attribute deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this attribute.
Following is the syntax to use bgcolor attribute with any HTML tag.
Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Colors</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Format 1 - Use color name -->
<table bgcolor = "yellow" width = "100%">
<tr>
<td>
This background is yellow
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>
Note − The background attribute deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this attribute.
Following is the syntax to use background attribute with any HTML tag.
Note − The background attribute is deprecated and it is recommended to use Style Sheet for background
setting.
The most frequently used image formats are JPEG, GIF and PNG images.
Example
Here are the examples to set background images of a table.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Images</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Set table background -->
<table background = "/images/html.gif" width = "100%" height = "100">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with HTML image.
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result −
It is suggested that while creating patterns or transparent GIF or PNG images, use the smallest dimensions
possible even as small as 1x1 to avoid slow loading.
Example
Here are the examples to set background pattern of a table −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Images</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Set a table background using pattern -->
<table background = "/images/pattern1.gif" width = "100%" height = "100">
<tr>
<td>
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>
This will produce the following result −
HTML - Colors
Colors are very important to give a good look and feel to your website. You can specify colors on page level using
<body> tag or you can set colors for individual tags using bgcolor attribute.
The <body> tag has following attributes which can be used to set different colors −
vlink − sets a color for visited links − that is, for linked text that you have already clicked on.
Color names − You can specify color names directly like green, blue or red.
Hex codes − A six-digit code representing the amount of red, green, and blue that makes up the color.
Color decimal or percentage values − This value is specified using the rgb( ) property.
Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color name −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by Name</title>
</head>
</html>
A hexadecimal value can be taken from any graphics software like Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro or MS Paint.
Each hexadecimal code will be preceded by a pound or hash sign #. Following is a list of few colors using
hexadecimal notation.
Color Color HEX
#000000
#FF0000
#00FF00
#0000FF
#FFFF00
#00FFFF
#FF00FF
#C0C0C0
#FFFFFF
Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color code in hexadecimal −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by Hex</title>
</head>
</html>
Note − All the browsers does not support rgb() property of color so it is recommended not to use it.
Following is a list to show few colors using RGB values.
rgb(0,0,0)
rgb(255,0,0)
rgb(0,255,0)
rgb(0,0,255)
rgb(255,255,0)
rgb(0,255,255)
rgb(255,0,255)
rgb(192,192,192)
rgb(255,255,255)
Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color code using rgb() values −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by RGB code</title>
</head>
</html>
HTML - Fonts
Fonts play a very important role in making a website more user friendly and increasing content readability. Font
face and color depends entirely on the computer and browser that is being used to view your page but you can
use HTML <font> tag to add style, size, and color to the text on your website. You can use a <basefont> tag to
set all of your text to the same size, face, and color.
The font tag is having three attributes called size, color, and face to customize your fonts. To change any of the
font attributes at any time within your webpage, simply use the <font> tag. The text that follows will remain
changed until you close with the </font> tag. You can change one or all of the font attributes within one <font>
tag.
Note −The font and basefont tags are deprecated and it is supposed to be removed in a future version of
HTML. So they should not be used rather, it's suggested to use CSS styles to manipulate your fonts. But still
for learning purpose, this chapter will explain font and basefont tags in detail.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Setting Font Size</title>
</head>
<body>
<font size = "1">Font size = "1"</font><br />
<font size = "2">Font size = "2"</font><br />
<font size = "3">Font size = "3"</font><br />
<font size = "4">Font size = "4"</font><br />
<font size = "5">Font size = "5"</font><br />
<font size = "6">Font size = "6"</font><br />
<font size = "7">Font size = "7"</font>
</body>
</html>
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Relative Font Size</title>
</head>
<body>
<font size = "-1">Font size = "-1"</font><br />
<font size = "+1">Font size = "+1"</font><br />
<font size = "+2">Font size = "+2"</font><br />
<font size = "+3">Font size = "+3"</font><br />
<font size = "+4">Font size = "+4"</font>
</body>
</html>
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Font Face</title>
</head>
<body>
<font face = "Times New Roman" size = "5">Times New Roman</font><br />
<font face = "Verdana" size = "5">Verdana</font><br />
<font face = "Comic sans MS" size =" 5">Comic Sans MS</font><br />
<font face = "WildWest" size = "5">WildWest</font><br />
<font face = "Bedrock" size = "5">Bedrock</font><br />
</body>
</html>
When your page is loaded, their browser will display the first font face available. If none of the given fonts are
installed, then it will display the default font face Times New Roman.
Note − You can check a complete list of HTML Color Name with Codes .
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Setting Font Color</title>
</head>
<body>
<font color = "#FF00FF">This text is in pink</font><br />
<font color = "red">This text is red</font>
</body>
</html>
The <basefont> tag also takes color, size and face attributes and it will support relative font setting by giving size
a value of +1 for a size larger or −2 for two sizes smaller.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Setting Basefont Color</title>
</head>
<body>
<basefont face = "arial, verdana, sans-serif" size = "2" color = "#ff0000">
<p>This is the page's default font.</p>
<h2>Example of the <basefont> Element</h2>
</html>
HTML - Forms
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>
Form Attributes
Apart from common attributes, following is a list of the most frequently used form attributes −
1
action
2
method
Method to be used to upload data. The most frequently used are GET and POST methods.
3
target
Specify the target window or frame where the result of the script will be displayed. It takes values like
_blank, _self, _parent etc.
4
enctype
You can use the enctype attribute to specify how the browser encodes the data before it sends it to the
server. Possible values are −
mutlipart/form-data − This is used when you want to upload binary data in the form of files like image,
word file etc.
Note − You can refer to Perl & CGI for a detail on how form data upload works.
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.
Example
Here is a basic example of a single-line text input used to take first name and last name −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Input Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form >
First name: <input type = "text" name = "first_name" />
<br>
Last name: <input type = "text" name = "last_name" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
First name:
Last name:
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <input> tag for creating text field.
Sr.No Attribute & Description
1
type
Indicates the type of input control and for text input control it will be set to text.
2
name
Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be recognized and get the value.
3
value
4
size
5
maxlength
Allows to specify the maximum number of characters a user can enter into the text box.
Example
Here is a basic example of a single-line password input used to take user password −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Password Input Control</title>
</head>
<body>
<form >
User ID : <input type = "text" name = "user_id" />
<br>
Password: <input type = "password" name = "password" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <input> tag for creating password field.
1
type
Indicates the type of input control and for password input control it will be set to password.
2
name
Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be recognized and get the value.
3
value
4
size
5
maxlength
Allows to specify the maximum number of characters a user can enter into the text box.
Example
Here is a basic example of a multi-line text input used to take item description −
Live Demo
<!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>
Description:
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <textarea> tag.
1
name
Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be recognized and get the value.
2
rows
3
cols
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 −
Live Demo
<!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>
Maths Physics
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for <checkbox> tag.
1
type
Indicates the type of input control and for checkbox input control it will be set to checkbox..
2
name
Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be recognized and get the value.
3
value
4
checked
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with two radio buttons −
Live Demo
<!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>
Maths Physics
Attributes
Following is the list of attributes for radio button.
Sr.No Attribute & Description
1
type
Indicates the type of input control and for checkbox input control it will be set to radio.
2
name
Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be recognized and get the value.
3
value
4
checked
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with one drop down box
Live Demo
<!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>
Attributes
Following is the list of important attributes of <select> tag −
1
name
Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be recognized and get the value.
2
size
3
multiple
If set to "multiple" then allows a user to select multiple items from the menu.
1
value
The value that will be used if an option in the select box box is selected.
2
selected
Specifies that this option should be the initially selected value when the page loads.
3
label
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with one file upload box −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>File Upload Box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type = "file" name = "fileupload" accept = "image/*" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Attributes
Following is the list of important attributes of file upload box −
1
name
Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be recognized and get the value.
2
accept
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 −
Sr.No Type & Description
1
submit
2
reset
This creates a button that automatically resets form controls to their initial values.
3
button
This creates a button that is used to trigger a client-side script when the user clicks that button.
4
image
This creates a clickable button but we can use an image as background of the button.
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with three types of buttons −
Live Demo
<!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>
Example
Here is example HTML code to show the usage of hidden control −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>File Upload Box</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<p>This is page 10</p>
<input type = "hidden" name = "pagename" value = "10" />
<input type = "submit" name = "submit" value = "Submit" />
<input type = "reset" name = "reset" value = "Reset" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Submit Reset
You can also include a <noembed> tag for the browsers which don't recognize the <embed> tag. You could, for
example, use <embed> to display a movie of your choice, and <noembed> to display a single JPG image if
browser does not support <embed> tag.
Example
Here is a simple example to play an embedded midi file −
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML embed Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<embed src = "/html/yourfile.mid" width = "100%" height = "60" >
<noembed><img src = "yourimage.gif" alt = "Alternative Media" ></noembed>
</embed>
</body>
</html>
Note −The align and autostart attributes deprecated in HTML5. Do not use these attributes.
Sr.No Attribute & Description
1
align
Determines how to align the object. It can be set to either center, left or right.
2
autostart
This boolean attribute indicates if the media should start automatically. You can set it either true or
false.
3
loop
Specifies if the sound should be played continuously (set loop to true), a certain number of times (a
positive value) or not at all (false)
4
playcount
Specifies the number of times to play the sound. This is alternate option for loop if you are usiong IE.
5
hidden
Specifies if the multimedia object should be shown on the page. A false value means no and true
values means yes.
6
width
7
height
8
name
9
src
10
volume
Controls volume of the sound. Can be from 0 (off) to 100 (full volume).
.mpeg files − are movie files created by the Moving Pictures Expert Group.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML embed Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<embed src = "/html/yourfile.swf" width = "200" height = "200" >
<noembed><img src = "yourimage.gif" alt = "Alternative Media" ></noembed>
</embed>
</body>
</html>
Background Audio
You can use HTML <bgsound> tag to play a soundtrack in the background of your webpage. This tag is
supported by Internet Explorer only and most of the other browsers ignore this tag. It downloads and plays an
audio file when the host document is first downloaded by the user and displayed. The background sound file also
will replay whenever the user refreshes the browser.
Note − The bgsound tag is deprecated and it is supposed to be removed in a future version of HTML. So they
should not be used rather, it's suggested to use HTML5 tag audio for adding sound. But still for learning purpose,
this chapter will explain bgsound tag in detail.
This tag is having only two attributes loop and src. Both these attributes have same meaning as explained above.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML embed Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<bgsound src = "/html/yourfile.mid">
<noembed><img src = "yourimage.gif" ></noembed>
</bgsound>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the blank screen. This tag does not display any component and remains hidden.
Internet Explorer can also handle only three different sound format files − wav, the native format for PCs; au, the
native format for most Unix workstations; and MIDI, a universal music-encoding scheme.
Example - 1
You can embed an HTML document in an HTML document itself as follows −
Here alt attribute will come into picture if browser does not support object tag.
Example - 2
You can embed a PDF document in an HTML document as follows −
Example - 3
You can specify some parameters related to the document with the <param> tag. Here is an example to embed a
wav file −
Example - 4
You can add a flash document as follows −
Example - 5
You can add a java applet into HTML document as follows −
The classid attribute identifies which version of Java Plug-in to use. You can use the optional codebase attribute
to specify if and how to download the JRE.
HTML - Marquees
An 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 <marquee> tag deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this element, instead you can use JavaScript
and CSS to create such effects.
Syntax
A simple syntax to use HTML <marquee> tag is as follows −
1
width
This specifies the width of the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
2
height
This specifies the height of the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
3
direction
This specifies the direction in which marquee should scroll. This can be a value like up, down, left or
right.
4
behavior
This specifies the type of scrolling of the marquee. This can have a value like scroll, slide and
alternate.
5
scrolldelay
This specifies how long to delay between each jump. This will have a value like 10 etc.
6
scrollamount
This specifies the speed of marquee text. This can have a value like 10 etc.
7
loop
This specifies how many times to loop. The default value is INFINITE, which means that the marquee
loops endlessly.
8
bgcolor
This specifies background color in terms of color name or color hex value.
9
hspace
This specifies horizontal space around the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
10
vspace
This specifies vertical space around the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
Examples - 1
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<marquee>This is basic example of marquee</marquee>
</body>
</html>
le of marquee
Examples - 2
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<marquee width = "50%">This example will take only 50% width</marquee>
</body>
</html>
Examples - 3
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<marquee direction = "right">This text will scroll from left to right</marquee>
</body>
</html>
Examples - 4
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<marquee direction = "up">This text will scroll from bottom to up</marquee>
</body>
</html>
HTML - Header
We have learnt that a typical HTML document will have following structure −
<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.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Title Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello, World!
Following are few of the important usages of <meta> tag inside an HTML document −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Meta Tag Example</title>
<!-- Tag to tell robots not to index the content of a page -->
<meta name = "robots" content = "noindex, nofollow">
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello, World!
For example, all the given pages and images will be searched after prefixing the given URLs with base URL
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ directory −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Base Tag Example</title>
<base href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
</head>
<body>
<img src = "/images/logo.png" alt = "Logo Image"/>
<a href = "/html/index.htm" title = "HTML Tutorial"/>HTML Tutorial</a>
</body>
</html>
But if you change base URL to something else, for example, if base URL is http://www.tutorialspoint.com/home
then image and other given links will become like http://www.tutorialspoint.com/home/images/logo.png and
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/index.htm
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML link Tag Example</title>
<base href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "/css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello, World!
<head>
<title>HTML style Tag Example</title>
<base href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<body>
<p class = "myclass">Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello, World!
Note − To learn about how Cascading Style Sheet works, kindly check a separate tutorial available at css
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML script Tag Example</title>
<base href = "http://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<body>
<input type = "button" onclick = "Hello();" name = "ok" value = "OK" />
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result, where you can try to click on the given button −
OK
Note − To learn about how JavaScript works, kindly check a separate tutorial available at javascript
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) provide easy and effective alternatives to specify various attributes for the HTML
tags. Using CSS, you can specify a number of style properties for a given HTML element. Each property has a
name and a value, separated by a colon (:). Each property declaration is separated by a semi-colon (;).
Example
First let's consider an example of HTML document which makes use of <font> tag and associated attributes to
specify text color and font size −
Note − The font tag deprecated and it is supposed to be removed in a future version of HTML. So they
should not be used rather, it's suggested to use CSS styles to manipulate your fonts. But still for learning
purpose, this chapter will work with an example using the font tag.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><font color = "green" size = "5">Hello, World!</font></p>
</body>
</html>
We can re-write above example with the help of Style Sheet as follows −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style = "color:green; font-size:24px;" >Hello, World!</p>
</body>
</html>
Hello, World!
External Style Sheet − Define style sheet rules in a separate .css file and then include that file in your
HTML document using HTML <link> tag.
Internal Style Sheet − Define style sheet rules in header section of the HTML document using <style> tag.
Inline Style Sheet − Define style sheet rules directly along-with the HTML elements using style attribute.
Let's see all the three cases one by one with the help of suitable examples.
.red {
color: red;
}
.thick {
font-size:20px;
}
.green {
color:green;
}
Here we defined three CSS rules which will be applicable to three different classes defined for the HTML tags. I
suggest you should not bother about how these rules are being defined because you will learn them while
studying CSS. Now let's make use of the above external CSS file in our following HTML document −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML External CSS</title>
<link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "/html/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<p class = "red">This is red</p>
<p class = "thick">This is thick</p>
<p class = "green">This is green</p>
<p class = "thick green">This is thick and green</p>
</body>
</html>
This is red
This is thick
This is green
Example
Let's re-write above example once again, but here we will write style sheet rules in the same HTML document
using <style> tag −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Internal CSS</title>
<body>
<p class = "red">This is red</p>
<p class = "thick">This is thick</p>
<p class = "green">This is green</p>
<p class = "thick green">This is thick and green</p>
</body>
</html>
This is red
This is thick
This is green
Example
Let's re-write above example once again, but here we will write style sheet rules along with the HTML elements
using style attribute of those elements.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Inline CSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style = "color:red;">This is red</p>
<p style = "font-size:20px;">This is thick</p>
<p style = "color:green;">This is green</p>
<p style = "color:green;font-size:20px;">This is thick and green</p>
</body>
</html>
This is red
This is thick
This is green
HTML - JavaScript
A script is a small piece of program that can add interactivity to your website. For example, a script could
generate a pop-up alert box message, or provide a dropdown menu. This script could be written using JavaScript
or VBScript.
You can write various small functions, called event handlers using any of the scripting language and then you can
trigger those functions using HTML attributes.
Now-a-days, only JavaScript and associated frameworks are being used by most of the web developers,
VBScript is not even supported by various major browsers.
You can keep JavaScript code in a separate file and then include it wherever it's needed, or you can define
functionality inside HTML document itself. Let's see both the cases one by one with suitable examples.
External JavaScript
If you are going to define a functionality which will be used in various HTML documents then it's better to keep
that functionality in a separate JavaScript file and then include that file in your HTML documents. A JavaScript file
will have extension as .js and it will be included in HTML files using <script> tag.
Example
Consider we define a small function using JavaScript in script.js which has following code −
function Hello() {
alert("Hello, World");
}
Now let's make use of the above external JavaScript file in our following HTML document −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Javascript External Script</title>
<script src = "/html/script.js" type = "text/javascript"/></script>
</head>
<body>
<input type = "button" onclick = "Hello();" name = "ok" value = "Click Me" />
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result, where you can try to click on the given button −
Click Me
Internal Script
You can write your script code directly into your HTML document. Usually we keep script code in header of the
document using <script> tag, otherwise there is no restriction and you can put your source code anywhere in the
document but inside <script> tag.
Example
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JavaScript Internal Script</title>
<base href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<body>
<input type = "button" onclick = "Hello();" name = "ok" value = "Click Me" />
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result, where you can try to click on the given button −
Click Me
Event Handlers
Event handlers are nothing but simply defined functions which can be called against any mouse or keyboard
event. You can define your business logic inside your event handler which can vary from a single to 1000s of line
code.
Following example explains how to write an event handler. Let's write one simple function EventHandler() in the
header of the document. We will call this function when any user brings mouse over a paragraph.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Event Handlers Example</title>
<base href = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/" />
<body>
<p onmouseover = "EventHandler();">Bring your mouse here to see an alert</p>
</body>
</html>
Now This will produce the following result. Bring your mouse over this line and see the result −
JavaScript Example:
<script type = "text/JavaScript">
<!--
document.write("Hello JavaScript!");
//-->
</script>
VBScript Example:
<script type = "text/vbscript">
<!--
document.write("Hello VBScript!")
'-->
</script>
JavaScript Example:
<script type = "text/JavaScript">
<!--
document.write("Hello JavaScript!");
//-->
</script>
<noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>
VBScript Example:
<script type = "text/vbscript">
<!--
document.write("Hello VBScript!")
'-->
</script>
Note that you can still override the default by specifying a language within the script tag.
HTML - Layouts
A webpage layout is very important to give better look to your website. It takes considerable time to design a
website's layout with great look and feel.
Now-a-days, all modern websites are using CSS and JavaScript based framework to come up with responsive
and dynamic websites but you can create a good layout using simple HTML tables or division tags in combination
with other formatting tags. This chapter will give you few examples on how to create a simple but working layout
for your webpage using pure HTML and its attributes.
Example
For example, the following HTML layout example is achieved using a table with 3 rows and 2 columns but the
header and footer column spans both columns using the colspan attribute −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Layout using Tables</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width = "100%" border = "0">
<tr>
<td colspan = "2" bgcolor = "#b5dcb3">
<h1>This is Web Page Main title</h1>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign = "top">
<td bgcolor = "#aaa" width = "50">
<b>Main Menu</b><br />
HTML<br />
PHP<br />
PERL...
</td>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Example
Here is an example to create three column layout −
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Three Column HTML Layout</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width = "100%" border = "0">
<table>
</body>
</html>
Although we can achieve pretty nice layouts with HTML tables, but tables weren't really designed as a layout tool.
Tables are more suited to presenting tabular data.
Note − This example makes use of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), so before understanding this example you
need to have a better understanding on how CSS works.
Example
Here we will try to achieve same result using <div> tag along with CSS, whatever you have achieved using
<table> tag in previous example.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Layouts using DIV, SPAN</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style = "width:100%">
</div>
</body>
</html>
You can create better layout using DIV, SPAN along with CSS. For more information on CSS, please refer to CSS
Tutorial.
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