HTML problem...

gamerunknown · 03-18-2006, 04:21 AM

I know may not be a real programming language, but it is listed in description.

Either my table or my link is eating up all the other script on the page >_<.

Shannon · 03-18-2006, 04:26 AM

what's the page you're having trouble with? I don't see a link anywhere.

gamerunknown · 03-18-2006, 04:29 AM

It's kind of embarrassing... It is on a HTML learning programme, so I was messing around with it =\. What it looks like
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<html>
<body bgcolor="red">

list
list
list

</p>

<big>big</big>

small

bold

italics

this is<sub>subscript</sub>

this is<sup>superscript</sup>

this is a <h6>heading</h6>
</p>

<pre> P R E</pre>
</p>

<a href="www.gamefaqs.com"> www.gamefaqs.com<a/>
<table border="9" cellpadding="3">
<td>PHONE MACALLA</td>
<td>AT 9:35</td>
<td></td>

<address align="right">address</address>
</p>
</body>
</html>

RockyZ · 03-18-2006, 05:05 AM

My suggestion about HTML is read a short book about it then throw away the book. Open up frontpage and you probably won't ever need HTML knowledge besides the simple <center> tags.

fitzjj · 03-18-2006, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by RockyZ
My suggestion about HTML is read a short book about it then throw away the book. Open up frontpage and you probably won't ever need HTML knowledge besides the simple <center> tags.

Cover your ears and eyes DON'T listent to that advice.....!!!... well you can listen to the read a book bit if you like!

Instead fire up your web browser find a webpage and save it to your computer. Then open the .htm/.html file with notepad and have a play around - open the file with your web browser and see what changes you have made. Don't start with an overly complicated web site and preferably one coded in just html.

A basic structure for a web page goes:

Code:

<html>
   <head>
      <title>The Title</title>
   </head>
 
   <body>

      

   </body>
</html>

The <head> section contains things that dont actually appear in on the page, such as the title, any meta tags, javascript functions etc... When starthing out you probably wont put much here.

The <body> section contains the main body of the page, i.e. all the text, images etc...

But really the best way to learn HTML is to go view>source on various web pages and see if you can figure out what each part of the html is doing to the page and what it's purpose is.

Shannon · 03-19-2006, 06:27 AM

just read up on the basics. try http://www.w3schools.com

I'm not sure what you want it to look like, but on this line;[list=1]
the quote isn't closed. it should be like[list=1]

that's probably what you think is "eating your code".
also, your link is wrong. here is a proper link;
gamefaqs.com

as for your table, I'm not sure if this is how you wanted it to look but you were missing a few tags. this is an actual table, though not a particularly pretty one.
<table border="9" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td>PHONE MACALLA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>AT 9:35</td>
</tr>
</table>

don't use the pre tag. I'm pretty sure it's deprecated, I don't think it's even supported anymore. I'm not sure about the address tag.

furtivefelon · 03-21-2006, 09:54 PM

frontpage sucks.. i like dreamweaver for complex layouts.. and dreamweaver has a superb CSS support that takes all the pain out of it..

gamerunknown · 03-22-2006, 05:31 AM

uuh, thanks shannon. I was using various techniques for the table, and I usually do view sources of websites.

I finished up on the w3 schools thingy, which I was using in the first place, but I just started a new HTML document =P.

Are there any other free tutorials I should look out for?

smartydebater · 03-25-2006, 04:54 PM

Yeah, a the site where I first learned Html, CSS, and Javascript is Davesite.com . It has a lot of annoying adds, but the tutorials are great.

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