This form contains a password field and a hidden field, the VALUE of which will be passed to the script along with those of the other fields.

A password field behaves exactly like a normal text entry field, except that it displays asterisks in the place of any input.

A hidden field is created with TYPE = “hidden”, and its VALUE is what is returned by the browser. Read the rest of this entry »

Checkboxes are used to allow the user to select an item with the click of a mouse. Groups of checkboxes can be used to create checklists. The inital value of a checkbox can be defined to be checked or not. If you want to set up a checklist from which the user may only select one item, then you should use Redio button instead of checkboxes.

Example

Which of the following sports do you enjoy watching? (choose any combination)

Use the TextArea keyword to create fields for entering large amounts of text. Not all browsers allow you to define an initial value for the text area (by placing text between the and tags). Read the rest of this entry »

There are 5 different aspect of a web page who’s color you can control. They are the background, the regular text, the unvisited links, the currently active link and visted links. Of these, the currently active link is least likely to be used. Even with a slow dial-up modem I rare see the links change colors. The color codes supplied in the colorindex are from a collection that I use for some of my projects. They can be used with any of the objects, not just for backgrounds. Read the rest of this entry »

This list show the Decimal and Hex codes for all the ISO Latin-1 characters. Note, in HTML, that any ISO Latin-1 character can be written as &#xxx;, where xxx is the decimal code of the character.

For more information on the the International Standards Organization, and the ISO 8859 character sets. Read the rest of this entry »

Before you submit, please view your pages in Netscape.

• Unclosed tags, missing quotation marks and forgotten line and paragraph breaks happen to everyone and can cause havoc with your Web page.
• It is unprofessional and can be quite embarrassing to discover mistakes once you’re already on-line. Read the rest of this entry »
  

1. Unneeded Usage of Frames

Splitting a page into frames is very confusing for users since frames break the fundamental user model of the web page. All of a sudden, you cannot bookmark the current page and return to it (the bookmark points to another version of the frameset), URLs stop working, and printouts become difficult. Even worse, the predictability of user actions goes out the door: who knows what information will appear where when you click on a link? Read the rest of this entry »

The tag is basically the same as creating a link to another page. This code needs no special script or program to allow users to send e-mail to a desired address. The functionality is built into your browser.

The code for adding a link to an e-mail address looks like this:

<A HREF=	mailto:username@domain.com>	Your text	</a>
Start of all mail link tags	E-mail address. The “mailto” tag MUST be included. The full e-mail address (EX: kristy@web-nation.com) must be given.	Add the text or image tag here. The image or text will be “hot”. (The viewer can click on it to call up the browser mail form. The recipient is the one specified in the “mailto” instructions.)	Closing tag. DON’T forget this!!