1. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Lecture II

2. Review Writing HTML files for web pages – efficient compact – fundamental. Text files with htm extension containing tags or markers and data Elements, attributes and values Simple HTM page – formatting – lists - images

3. Objectives of Lecture II More about images and page appearance Hyperlinks Internal and external links Tables

4. Image – Alternate text <IMG SRC = “pic.gif” ALT = “alternate text” Alternate text will be displayed if: Failure to load Text only browser Browser set to not display images

5. More on IMG Height and width can be specified as attribute values Eg. Special characters: < &lt > &gt © &copy

6. Colours Body tag has attributes to set the colour for different kinds of page contents, like page colour, text colour, links colours etc. The colour can be specified as name or as RGB values in that order, each a hexadecimal value from 0 to 255. Eg. #000000 stands for black, #FFFFFF white

7. Attributes ( …. colour) The body tag can take attributes : BGCOLOR (to specify background colour) TEXT (to specify text colour) LINK (unvisited links) ALINK (to specify colour of links when mouse is placed) VLINK (visited links) BACKGROUND (specify background pattern)

8. Font The Font tag can specify the font for enclosed text. Attributes like Face, Color, Size etc.

9. Links The critical element is the ability to connect to different documents or move from page to page by clicking on linked text or images. An ANCHOR tag is used to mark a text or picture as a link.

10. Using Tag The A tag encloses the text or picture that is supposed to act as the link. An HREF attribute for the A Tag has the value which is the URL of the page to be accessed or the (path)filename of the document, If it is the same machine. Eg. Our institute

11. Internal Link When a link has to be given to a part of the same page, when the pages are long, the target part of the page is marked with an anchor tag with the name attribute, to give a name. The link has anchor tags with HREF attributes having this name as value.

12. Name attribute Eg. … …… Click here for complete list

13. More on internal links An external files internal anchor name can be specified Eg

14. Tables Table row Table header Table data Attributes like cellspacing, cellpadding, border etc for the table tag.

15. A very important site http://www.w3.org All information and resources connected with the WWW including HTML. Hosting your page. Many free hosting sites on the web. Find by a google search