A horizontal line, or horizontal rule as it is named in HTML, is one of the easiest tags to use. You can insert the <hr /> tag anywhere in your document to insert a horizontal line that extends across the space available. Take a look at the following sample HTML. It shows three <hr> tags: [...]
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Formatting Text with Styles
Text is the most important element of any Web page. Without text, there is nothing on the page to help people decide whether it’s worth coming back. Text on an HTML page is structured by the <body>, <p>, <td>, <tr>, <th>, <h1> <h6>, and <li> tags (among others). You can add your own style preferences [...]
Add a Little class
As the old saying goes, rules are made to be broken. What if you don’t want every single h1 heading in your document to be white on a black background? Maybe you want every other h1 heading to be yellow on a white background. Let me introduce you to the class attribute. You can apply [...]
Defining the Rules
Style sheet rules are made up of selectors (the HTML tags that receive the style) and declarations (the style sheet properties and their values). In the following example, the selector is the body tag and the declaration is made up of the style property (background) and its value (black). This example sets the background color [...]
Adding Your Own Style
As you’ve already learned, HTML was written as a markup language for defining the structure of a document (paragraphs, headings, tables, and so on). Although it was never intended to become a desktop publishing tool, it does include some basic formatting attributes, such as font-size, align and the aforementioned bgcolor.
Introducing HTML
It wouldn’t be appropriate to try to give an exhaustive account of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)—or, indeed, any of the other component technologies of Ajax—within this book. Instead we’ll review the fundamental principles and give some code examples to illustrate them, paying particular attention to the subjects that will become relevant when we start to [...]


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