Skip to main content

WDS6 - Style your Document

In the last article we learned:
  • Rules about using HTML headings
  • Horizontal Rule in HTML
  • How to Inspect webpages to view their HTML
Now let's move towards one very important flaw of HTML:
We all studied about paragraph element in previous posts which help to create a paragraph simply, but do you notice one big problem with it? Let's see with one example:
The above two code snippets have different inputs but same output. Why?
With HTML, you cannot change the output by adding extra spaces or extra lines in your HTML code.The browser will remove any extra spaces and extra lines when the page is displayed.
But there is the solution.

HTML <pre> Tag 

<pre> tag is used for displaying preformatted text which means it will display output same as-as formatting in your input and will not remove extra spaces.

HTML Style Attribute 

Although what I will you tell now, you will never use after you learn CSS. In this part we will study how you can style content in HTML using  style attribute. Let's first see syntax of style attribute:
Now let's see some of the important properties you can use inside style attribute:

             Property                                    Use
  1. background-color            defines background color for that element
  2. color                        defines text color for that element
  3. font-family                   defines font used for given element
  4. font-size                    defines size of text for give element
  5. text-align                    defines alignment of given element
Now let's see which values you can use for this properties. 
For first two properties, you should enter any supported color as value. Modern browsers support 140 named colors. You can see them at http://htmlcolorcodes.com/  . For font-family you should enter any valid fonts supported by browsers.For font-size , you can enter size in percentage(%) or pixels(px). For text-align, alignment can be left, right or center.
Let's finally one example combining all above concepts:
That's all for this article. I hope you all are practising what you are learning here because Practise is key to success. In the next part, we will learn about some other ways beside <style> tag to enhance your content. Comment on how you think this article is, what improvements should I do and for any doubts. Share with your friends and keep coding.


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Python Project - 1 (Password Locker)

Hello reader, this is my first post on this blog. I created this blog for various purposes including First and most importantly improve my coding Help others to learn various concepts in programming  To complete my hobby of blogging So, I am starting various series simultaneously, hope I will able to continue them. In this " Python Project " series, I will create simple python projects and will give step by step procedure to do that. I think you should first try to complete code yourself, then if you get stuck anywhere, feel free to check steps, refer complete code or comment for more help. Let's begin... Idea and Need: You probably have accounts on many different websites. It is a bad habit to have the same password and it is difficult to remember all passwords. So it is a good idea to use "Password Manager Software". So why not create it yourself? So let's see what steps you should follow... Steps: We have to create a menu which has the...
Post a Comment
Read more

WDS15 - Handle your Metadata

In the last short article we learned about: HTML iframe element to display webpage inside webpage Now in this article, we are going to see something which will not make the direct impact on how you are seeing your webpage but will do a lot of background work. So let's get started... In the very first article on HTML, while learning basic HTML page structure we divided HTML document into two main parts: head and body. This head contains metadata about HTML document which we write in the body of HTML. Ler's see how to write this metadata... HTML <meta> element <meta> element is used to specify about author of webpage, various tags for article, page description and many other things. Metadata is used by browsers to decide how to display content and search engines to classify web pages according to tags and keywords. HTML Character set A defined list of characters recognized by the computer hardware and software. Each character is represented by a num...
Post a Comment
Read more

WDS8 - Use of Quotes and Comments

In the last article we learned following tags to enhance your HTML: <b> and <strong> tags <i> and <em> tags <small> <del> <mark> <ins> <sup> and <sub> tags Now let's move forward from styling and see some HTML elements so that we can write quotes in our documents comfortably. HTML <q> tag for Short Quotations This <q> tag defines a short quotation in HTML. This is mostly used for short inline quotations. Most of the browsers insert quotation marks(") before and after the content in quotation tags. HTML <blockquote> tag for Large Quotations This <blockquote> tag defines large quotations in HTML. Browsers usually indent the content inside <blockquote> tags. HTML <abbr> for Abbreviations HTML <abbr> tag defines an abbreviation. This tag requires one extra attribute called title . This attribute takes full form for that particular abbrev...
3 comments
Read more