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
In this hour you learned that a style sheet can control the appearance of many HTML pages at once. It can also give you extremely precise control over typography, spacing, and the positioning of HTML elements. You also learned that by adding a style attribute to almost any HTML tag, you can control the style of any part of an HTML page without referring to a separate style sheet document.
Table 16.1 summarizes the tags discussed in this hour. Refer to the CSS1 and CSS2 style sheet standards at http://www.w3c.org for details on what options can be included after the <style> tag or the style attribute.
Table 16.1. HTML Tags and Attributes Covered in Hour 16
| Tag | Attribute | Function |
| <style>…</style> | Allows an internal style sheet to be included within a document. Used between <head> and </head>. | |
| <link /> | Links to an external style sheet (or other document type). Used in the <head> section of the document. | |
| href="&hellip" | The address of the style sheet. | |
| type="&hellip" | The Internet content type. (Always "text/css" for a style sheet.) | |
| rel="&hellip" | The link type. (Always "stylesheet" for style sheets.) | |
| <span>…</span> | Does nothing at all, except provide a place to put style or other attributes. (Similar to <div>…</div>, but does not cause a line break.) | |
| style="&hellip" | Includes inline style specifications. (Can be used in <span>, <div>, <body>, and most other HTML tags.) |
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