HTML Tags Live Examples
Information / Disclaimers
These pages were created to serve a selfish need: with continual evolution of HTML specs, browser compliance, and browser extensions, it was hard for me to keep up and remember all the changes. I found most tutorials to use dead examples which did not show me how the tag actually worked. These pages were designed to help me remember what I learned and as a way to test a tag to see if and how it was being rendered by a browser. Thus, these pages are meant to supplement or compliment a good tutorial. These pages will evolve as I learn more.
These pages are not meant to be a tutorial per se. There are plenty of tutorials out on the web or at your local bookstore. These pages are not meant to be absolutely complete, I do not have the time to show every possible combination and interaction of every tag with every attribute with every other tag and their attributes. Tags that are meant to work completely behind the scenes, as it were, are not included as well (like most Meta tags which are there for search engine information, etc). Also, since these pages are for HTML tags, they are not Java, JavaScript, JScript, or ActiveX example pages. The only time JavaScript is used is when it is a command that is an attribute of a tag, and only if it is not calling a script that needs to be coded first. Finally, these pages are not an invitation for HTML questions to be sent to me. I truly wish I had the luxury to answer every HTML question sent to me, but I do not. However, if you have new tags or attributes of tags that you want to suggest, please feel free to send those in to me.
Every Example Page will have a HTML Practice Window button. Click this button to open a separate second window where you can practice HTML coding in. Enter HTML coding or cut and paste and alter HTML coding from the Example page into the top frame. Click on the "Show" button to see the result in the bottom frame. The "Clear Input" button clears the top frame, the "Clear Output" button clears the HTML coding results from the bottom frame, and the "Clear All" button clears both. The window is resizeable. If your browser doesn't support frames or JavaScript you will not be able to use the HTML Practice Window.
For optimum viewing and use of these pages your browser needs to support (in order of importance:)
- Nested tables (many pages, not just the Table Tags Examples pages, have nested tables)
- JavaScript (for the HTML Practice Window to work and to view JavaScript attributes to some tags)
- Frames (for the HTML Practice Widow to work and to view the frames examples)
Nested tables support test: If your browser supports nested tables you should see a simple table within a simple table (both with borders=3) below with the text "Nested tables supported" below:
If the following text states that "JavaScript is NOT supported," then your browser either does not support JavaScript, or that your browser has it's JavaScript turned off. The HTML Practice Window will not work on your browser.
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