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
  • Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
  • Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
    • Using Named Anchors
    • Linking to a Specific Part of Another Page
    • Linking Your Email Address into a Web Page
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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. Can I put both href and name in the same <a> tag? Would I want to for any reason?

   You can, and it might save you some typing if you have a named anchor point and a link right next to each other. It's generally better, however, to use <a href> and <a name> separately to avoid confusion because they play very different roles in an HTML document.

2. What happens if I accidentally spell the name of an anchor wrong or forget to put the # in front of it?

   If you link to an anchor name that doesn't exist within a page or misspell the anchor name, the link goes to the top of that page.

3. When I test my intrapage links with Netscape Navigator 2 or 3, they don't seem to work quite right. Was there a change in the HTML standard?

   The proper HTML hasn't changed, but there was a known bug in some older versions of Navigator that prevented links to anchors from working correctly in some (not all) situations. There's not much you can do about that other than encouraging people to upgrade to the latest version of their Web browser.

4. What if I use a different company to handle my email than handles my Web pages? Will my email links still work?

   Yes. You can put any email address on the Internet into a link, and it will work fine. The only situation where email links won't work is when the person who clicks the link hasn't set up the email part of his Web browser properly or is using an older version that isn't capable of sending email.

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