Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

By Dick Oliver

• 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
    • Text Alignment
    • The Three Types of HTML Lists
    • Lists Within Lists
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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

Q&A

1. Most Web pages I've seen on the Internet use <center> instead of <div align="center">. Should I be using <center> to make sure my pages are compatible with older Web browsers?

   For maximum compatibility, you might prefer to use both the obsolete <center> tag and the new <div align="center"> tag, like this: <div align="center"> <center>. This text will be centered in both old and new browsers. Don't forget to end the centered section with </center></div>.

2. I used <ul type="square">, but the bullets came out round, not square.

   Are you using Netscape Navigator 2 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or higher? Alternate bullet types don't show up in any other Web browsers yet.

3. I've seen pages on the Internet that use three-dimensional little balls or other special graphics for bullets. How do they do that?

   That trick is a little bit beyond what this chapter covers. You'll find out how to do it yourself at the end of Chapter 10, "Putting Graphics on a Web Page."

4. How do I "full justify" text, so that both the left and right margins are flush?

   You don't. HTML 4 does not support full-justified text. You will be able to full- justify text in the future using style sheets (see Hour 16), although that feature of the style sheet standard isn't supported by any current Web browser.

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