Week 13 – HTML advanced

Lesson Overview

Topic: HTML Language Advanced

Activities & Due Dates: Design a webpage

Opening – HTML Document Structure

Activity 1 – Nested Tags

•Whenever you have HTML tags within other HTML tags, you must close the nearest tag first

•Example:  <H1> <I> The Nation </I> </H1>

Activity 2 – The <TITLE> Tag

•Choose the title of your Web page carefully; The title of a Web page determines its ranking in certain search engines

•The title will also appear on Favorite lists, History lists, and Bookmark lists to identify your page

Activity 3 – Text Formatting Tags

Activity 4 – Changing the Font

•The expression <FONT FACE = “fontname”> … </FONT> can be used to change the font of the enclosed text

•To change the size of text use the expression <FONT SIZE=n> …. </FONT> where n is a number between 1 and 7

•To change the color, use <FONT COLOR=“red”>…. </FONT>; The color can also be defined using hexadecimal representation ( Example: #ffffff )

•These attributes can be combined to change the font, size, and color of the text all at once; For example, <FONT SIZE=4 FACE=“Arial” COLOR=“red”> …. </FONT>

Activity 5 – Headings

•Web pages are typically organized into sections with headings; To create a heading use the expression <Hn>….</Hn> where n is a number between 1 and 7 •In this case, the 1 corresponds to the largest size heading while the 7 corresponds to the smallest size

Activity 6 – Paragraphs, <P> </P>

Activity 7 – Bold, Italic and other Character Formatting Elements

•<EM> Emphasis </EM> Browsers usually display this as italics.

•<STRONG> STRONG </STRONG> Browsers display this as bold.

•<CITE> Citation </CITE> represents a document citation (italics). For titles of books, films, etc. Typically displayed in italics. (A Beginner’s Guide to HTML)

• <PRE> Preformatted </PRE> Text enclosed by PRE tags is displayed in a mono-spaced font. Spaces and line breaks are supported without additional elements or special characters.

Activity 8 – HTML colors

•<FONT COLOR=“#RRGGBB”>this text has color</FONT>

•Change background color

•<BODY BGCOLOR=“color”>

•Color table

Activity 9 – Aligning Text

•The ALIGN attribute can be inserted in the <P> and <Hn> tags to right justify, center, or left justify the text

•For example, <H1 ALIGN=CENTER> The New York Times </H1> would create a centered heading of the largest size

•<p align=center>center align </p>

•<p align=left>left align </p>

•<p align=right>right align </p>

Activity 10 – Inserting Images 

•Type <IMG SRC = “image.ext”>, where image.ext indicates the location of the image file

•The WIDTH=n and HEIGHT=n attributes can be used to adjust the size of an image

•The attribute BORDER=n can be used to add a border n pixels thick around the image

Activity 11 – Inserting a Youtube video

Activity 12 – Links

•A link lets you move from one page to another, play movies and sound, send email, download files, and more….

•A link has three parts: a destination, a label, and a target

•To create a link type   <A HREF=“page.html”> label </A>  

Activity 13 – Frames

•A web page can be made up of multiple HTML pages.

•Each page is filled with an HTML document.

•E.g.) make a frame page that divides into two pages: header and content

Activity 14 – Frames with links