Just so you know, you can attach individual style rules to individual elements in an HTML document. A style rule attached to an element looks like this:
<p style="color: green">The paragraph is green.</p>
Adding style rules to an element is quick and dirty, but isn’t really the best approach. We generally recommend that you choose either internal or external style sheets for your rules instead of attaching the rules to individual elements in your document. Here are a few reasons why:
Your style rules get mixed up in the page and are difficult to find.
You have to place the entire rule in the value of the style attribute, which makes complex rules difficult to write and edit.
HTML 4 for Dummies, 4th Edition
by Ed Tittel and Natanya Pitts ISBN:0764519956 John Wiley & Sons © 2003 (408 pages)
Whether your goal is to build a simple, text-oriented Web site or one loaded with frames, graphics, and animation, this step- by-step book will put you on the right track.
Table of Contents
HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition Introduction
Part I - Meeting HTML in Its Natural Environment
Chapter 1 - The Least You Need to Know about HTML and the Web Chapter 2 - HTML at Work on the Web
Chapter 3 - Creating Your First HTML Page Part II - Getting Started with HTML
Chapter 4 - Structuring Your HTML Documents Chapter 5 - Linking to Online Resources Chapter 6 - Finding and Using Images
Chapter 7 - Top Off Your Page with Formatting Part III - Taking HTML to the Next Level
Chapter 8 - HTML Tables Chapter 9 - HTML Frames Chapter 10 - HTML Forms
Part IV - Extending HTML with Other Technologies Chapter 11 - Getting Stylish with CSS
Chapter 12 - HTML and Scripting Chapter 13 - Making Multimedia Magic
Chapter 14 - Integrating a Database into Your HTML Chapter 15 - How HTML Relates to Other Markup Languages Part V - From Web Page to Web Site
Chapter 16 - Creating an HTML Toolbox Chapter 17 - Setting Up Your Online Presence Chapter 18 - Creating a Great User Interface Part VI - The Part of Tens
Chapter 19 - Ten Ways to Exterminate Web Bugs Chapter 20 - Ten HTML Do’s and Don’ts
Part VII - Appendixes Appendix A - HTML 4 Tags
Appendix B - HTML Character Codes Appendix C - Glossary
Index
Cheat Sheet- HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition List of Figures
List of Tables List of Listings List of Sidebars
You lose all the benefits that come with grouping selectors and reusing style rules in external style sheets.
HTML 4 for Dummies, 4th Edition
by Ed Tittel and Natanya Pitts ISBN:0764519956 John Wiley & Sons © 2003 (408 pages)
Whether your goal is to build a simple, text-oriented Web site or one loaded with frames, graphics, and animation, this step- by-step book will put you on the right track.
Table of Contents
HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition Introduction
Part I - Meeting HTML in Its Natural Environment
Chapter 1 - The Least You Need to Know about HTML and the Web Chapter 2 - HTML at Work on the Web
Chapter 3 - Creating Your First HTML Page Part II - Getting Started with HTML
Chapter 4 - Structuring Your HTML Documents Chapter 5 - Linking to Online Resources Chapter 6 - Finding and Using Images
Chapter 7 - Top Off Your Page with Formatting Part III - Taking HTML to the Next Level
Chapter 8 - HTML Tables Chapter 9 - HTML Frames Chapter 10 - HTML Forms
Part IV - Extending HTML with Other Technologies Chapter 11 - Getting Stylish with CSS
Chapter 12 - HTML and Scripting Chapter 13 - Making Multimedia Magic
Chapter 14 - Integrating a Database into Your HTML Chapter 15 - How HTML Relates to Other Markup Languages Part V - From Web Page to Web Site
Chapter 16 - Creating an HTML Toolbox Chapter 17 - Setting Up Your Online Presence Chapter 18 - Creating a Great User Interface Part VI - The Part of Tens
Chapter 19 - Ten Ways to Exterminate Web Bugs Chapter 20 - Ten HTML Do’s and Don’ts
Part VII - Appendixes Appendix A - HTML 4 Tags
Appendix B - HTML Character Codes Appendix C - Glossary
Index
Cheat Sheet- HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition List of Figures
List of Tables List of Listings List of Sidebars
Chapter 12: HTML and Scripting
Overview
In This Chapter
Looking behind the scenes with scripts Adding scripts to your Web pages
Understanding client-side and server-side scripts Dissecting three sample scripts
HTML is static. You use it to describe your content and a browser displays that content on the Web. That’s it. HTML can’t help you create images that magically change when users move mouse pointers over them, cause additional browser windows to pop up when a page loads, or create any of the many other
interactive and dynamic effects you see at work regularly on the Web.
So, if HTML can’t make this happen, what does? The answer is scripting. When used in conjunction with your HTML markup, content scripts — small programs that you add to your Web page — can help your Web pages respond to user actions.
Because scripts are programs, they’re written in a programming language and use programming
techniques. Therefore, yes, you have to know something about programming if you want to create scripts from scratch. However, you can easily integrate scripts that others have written into your HTML pages without knowing much about programming at all. This chapter focuses on laying out the least you need to know about scripting to integrate pre-written scripts into your Web pages.
Tip If you want to learn the ins and outs of creating scripts yourself, pick up JavaScript For Dummies, by Emily A. Vander Veer (Wiley Publishing). This book walks you through the least you need to know about creating scripts for your pages from scratch. Also, many good HTML editors (such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive) have built-in toolsets to help you create scripts — even if you don’t know anything about programming. This is the route that some developers choose because it’s the easiest. Chapter 16 discusses HTML editors like these in more detail.
HTML 4 for Dummies, 4th Edition
by Ed Tittel and Natanya Pitts ISBN:0764519956 John Wiley & Sons © 2003 (408 pages)
Whether your goal is to build a simple, text-oriented Web site or one loaded with frames, graphics, and animation, this step- by-step book will put you on the right track.
Table of Contents
HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition Introduction
Part I - Meeting HTML in Its Natural Environment
Chapter 1 - The Least You Need to Know about HTML and the Web Chapter 2 - HTML at Work on the Web
Chapter 3 - Creating Your First HTML Page Part II - Getting Started with HTML
Chapter 4 - Structuring Your HTML Documents Chapter 5 - Linking to Online Resources Chapter 6 - Finding and Using Images
Chapter 7 - Top Off Your Page with Formatting Part III - Taking HTML to the Next Level
Chapter 8 - HTML Tables Chapter 9 - HTML Frames Chapter 10 - HTML Forms
Part IV - Extending HTML with Other Technologies Chapter 11 - Getting Stylish with CSS
Chapter 12 - HTML and Scripting Chapter 13 - Making Multimedia Magic
Chapter 14 - Integrating a Database into Your HTML Chapter 15 - How HTML Relates to Other Markup Languages Part V - From Web Page to Web Site
Chapter 16 - Creating an HTML Toolbox Chapter 17 - Setting Up Your Online Presence Chapter 18 - Creating a Great User Interface Part VI - The Part of Tens
Chapter 19 - Ten Ways to Exterminate Web Bugs Chapter 20 - Ten HTML Do’s and Don’ts
Part VII - Appendixes Appendix A - HTML 4 Tags
Appendix B - HTML Character Codes Appendix C - Glossary
Index
Cheat Sheet- HTML 4 For Dummies, 4th Edition List of Figures
List of Tables List of Listings List of Sidebars