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 attributes are used to specify options and special behavior in many HTML tags, and you also learned to use the align attribute to center or right-align text.
You also found out how to create and combine three basic types of HTML list: ordered lists, unordered lists, and definition lists. Lists can be placed within other lists to create outlines and other complex arrangements of text.
Table 5.1 lists all the tags and attributes covered in this chapter.
Table 5.1. HTML Tags and Attributes Covered in Hour 5
| Tag | Attribute | Function |
| <div>…</div> | A region of text to be formatted. | |
| align="&hellip" | Align text to center, left, or right. (Can also be used with <p>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, and so on) | |
| <ol>…</ol> | An ordered (numbered) list. | |
| type="&hellip" | The type of numerals used to label the list. Possible values are A, a, I, i, 1. | |
| start="&hellip" | The value with which to start this list. | |
| <ul>…</ul> | An unordered (bulleted) list. | |
| type="&hellip" | The bullet dingbat used to mark list items. Possible values are disc, circle, and square. | |
| <li>…</li> | A list item for use with <ol> or <ul>. | |
| type="&hellip" | The type of bullet or number used to label this item. Possible values are disc, circle, square, a, A, i, I, 1. | |
| value="&hellip" | The numeric value this list item should have (affects this item and all below it in <ol> lists). | |
| <dl>…</dl> | A definition list. | |
| <dt>…</dt> | A definition term, as part of a definition list. | |
| <dd>…</dd> | The corresponding definition to a definition term, as part of a definition list. |
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