Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Put Your HTML Page Online Today
- I. Your First Web Page
- Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
- Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
- Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
- Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
- II. Web Page Text
- Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
- Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
- Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
- Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
- III. Web Page Graphics
- Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
- Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
- Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
- Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
- IV. Web Page Design
- Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
- Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
- Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
- Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
- V. Dynamic Web Pages
- Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
- Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
- Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
- Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
- VI. Building a Web Site
- Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
- Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
- Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
- Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
- VII. Appendixes
- A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
- B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
- C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
- D. HTML Character Entities
Summary
This hour provided some guidelines for designing attractive, highly readable Web pages. It also explained how to create and control blank space on your pages, as well as how to put borders around images. You saw how to use backgrounds to create banners across the top or left edge of a page and how to make sure people always have text to look at while waiting for the images on your page.
Table 13.2 summarizes the tags and attributes discussed in this chapter.
Table 13.2. HTML Tags and Attributes Covered in Hour 13
| Tag | Attribute | Function |
| <img /> | Inserts an inline image into the document. | |
| src="&hellip" | The address of the image. | |
| align="&hellip" | Determines the alignment of the given image (see Hour 10, "Putting Graphics on a Web Page" ). | |
| vspace="&hellip" | The space between the image and the text above or below it. | |
| hspace="&hellip" | The space between the image and the text to its left or right. | |
| width="&hellip" | The width, in pixels, of the image. If width is not the actual width, the image is scaled to fit. | |
| height="&hellip" | The width, in pixels, of the image. If height is not the actual height, the image is scaled to fit. | |
| border="&hellip" | Draws a border of the specified value in pixels to be drawn around the image. In case the images are also links, border changes the size of the default link border. | |
| <br /> | A line break. | |
| clear="&hellip" | Causes the text to stop flowing around any images. Possible values are right, left, all. |
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