The level of sophistication used to format lists in HTML is a vestige of HTML’s roots as a text-formatting language. You can’t position images or manipulate the leading of type yet, but you can make three types of lists:the unordered list (which is like an outline), the ordered list (which is like numbered instructions), and the definition list (which is like a series of dictionary entries).
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Action is a Form attribute that communicates with the common gateway interface (CGI) program to process.
For example, if you entered “bananas” to the following form:
<form action="../processor.cgi">
Please process this:
<input name=food><br>
<input type=submit>
</form>
The HTML form would send the input “bananas” to the cgi script. To the cgi script, the action would look like: ../processor.cgi?food=bananas
Meta information means “information about information.”
In HTML, meta tags describe the content of the document in which they’re written. Meta tags have two possible attributes:<META HTTP-EQUIV="name" CONTENT="content">and
<META NAME="name" CONTENT="content">. Meta tags with an
HTTP-EQUIVattribute are analogous to
HTTPheaders that can control the action of browsers. Meta tags with a
NAMEattribute are used primarily by indexing and searching tools. These tools can gather meta information in order to sort and classify web pages. One way to help your document show up more frequently in search engines and directories is to use the
META NAMEattribute to set keywords that will pull up your site when someone does a search for those words.
Setting a dHTML element’s behavior attribute allows you to customize the element.
Microsoft implemented the behavior attribute of Cascading Style Sheets in a way that enabled object-oriented programming to enter the world of web authoring. By encapsulating dHTML in an external object, the properties and methods of that object can be used. A web page can then use these objects with the behavior attribute. This means, for example, that a web author no longer had to perform an explicit browser detection.
When you type regular letters, numbers, and characters from your keyboard into the body of an HTML document, they show up on your Web pages just as you typed them. But things aren’t so easy in non-English speaking countries (and such places do exist – honest). Languages such as French, German, and Icelandic often use characters that are not found on your typical keyboard. Even in English, accents can distinguish a “résumé” from a “resume.”
So how do you make special characters and accented letters show up on your pages? You use a special set of codes called character entities, which you insert into your HTML code and which your browser will display as the corresponding symbols or characters you want.
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