Introduction to HTML/XHTML

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to HTML/XHTML
2. Structure of an HTML Document
3. Getting Started with HTML
4. Hypertext Links
5. Including Pictures
6. A bit more on XHTML
7. Updating Existing HTML Documents to XHTML
8. Cascading Style Sheets
9. Style Properties for Text
   1. Examples of Style Properties for Text
   2. Contextual Selectors
   3. Classes
   4. Style Properties for the Anchor Tag
   5. Defining a Linked Style Sheet
   6. Adding Comments to your Style Sheet
10. Utilities
11. Books and Further Reading
12. The End

Examples of Style Properties for Text

 

Rule	Presentation
h2 {font-family:Arial; font-style:italic; color:blue}	Heading 2 in blue Arial italicised text
p {font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; color:red}	A paragraph of bold Red text
p {background:yellow; font-family:Arial; color:red}	A paragraph of Red text on a yellow background
p {font-family:Arial; font-size:large; color:blue}	Large Blue Text
em {background:red; color:white; font-style:italic}	Text with emphasised text

Note: the value setting for the color property can be specified in hexadecimal form. For example, color:#000000 is equivalent to color:black.