Week 8 Reading Notes

Week 8 Reading Notes

HTML

·      Use tags to annotate the document content

o   Standard tags for creating HTML

§  Assembling them into desired order

·      IDE Tools automate the tedious and repetitive process of assembling HTML

o   Many developers instead prefer to use a text editor like notepad to create their HTML from scratch

XHTML

·      XML based

·      Reproduce, subset, and extend HTML

·      Difference between HTML and XHTML

o   XHTML documents are required to be “well formed”

§  Meaning that all elements must be in lowercase form, and they must have closing tags and nest properly

§  Attributes must be quoted

o   Separation of appearance and content

§  XHTML must conform to DTD

·      You cannot see tags or other formatting instructions on the document

XHTML Markup

·      Web browsers use markup tags to determine how to display the document

o   Opening and closing tags

·      Recommends using tables as a formatting technique

Style Sheets

·      Used to create uniform appearance by separating page content from the presentation

·      Web page maintenance

·      Templates

o   Separate forms that specify the document layout

·      Cascading style sheets

o   Multiple style sheets can be applied to the same web page       

o   Individual users can customize organizational formatting rules by modeling their own styles after the standard ones

HTML Forms

·      Used to collect input from the users