HTML The Definitive Guide (18 page)
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Authors: Chuck Musciano Bill Kennedy
HTML forms provide everything you might expect of an automated form, including input area labels, integrated contents for instructions, default input values, and so on - except automatic input verification; your server-side program or client-side applets need to perform that function.
2.8 Images Are Special
2.10 Tables
2.10 Tables
For a language that emerged from academia - a place steeped in data - it's not surprising to find that HTML supports a set of tags for data tables that not only align your numbers, but can specially format your text, too.
Five tags enable tables, including the
| ) or table data ( | ) tags and their respective contents for each cell in the table. Headers and data may contain nearly any regular HTML content, including text, images, forms, and even another table. As a result, you can also use HTML tables for advanced text formatting, such as for multicolumn text and sidebar headers (see Figure 2.5 ). For more information, see Chapter 11, Figure 2.5: HTML tables let you perform page layout tricks, too
2.9 Lists, Searchable 2.11 Frames Documents, and Forms
2.11 Frames Anyone who has had more than one application window open on their graphical desktop at a time can immediately appreciate the benefits of frames. Frames let you divide the browser window into multiple display areas, each containing a different document. For more information on frames, see Figure 2.6 Figure 2.6: Frames divide the window into many document displays Other booksThe SEAL's Secret Heirs by Kat Cantrell Kids Are Americans Too by Bill O'Reilly Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb The Three Sentinels by Geoffrey Household The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees To Chase the Storm: The Frontier Series 4 by Peter Watt Material Girl 2 by Keisha Ervin Murder Shoots the Bull by Anne George Beyond the High Road by Denning, Troy As Luck Would Have It by Alissa Johnson |
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