Guide_Saxon

=Saxon V.S. HTML (Guide to HTML!)=

Definition:

 * HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
 * A Tag is something in between these signs: < >
 * Elements are the building blocks to HTML. There are two types of elements. Container and Empty Elements.
 * Attribute further defines function of an element.
 * Comments: a comment is used to help you remember things and looks like this:
 * A heading looks like this blah blah There are 6 sizes of headings h1 is the lagest and h6 is the smallest. Once you pass h6 it won't become any smaller.
 * This tag means paragraph
 * This tag means (no duh) title
 * means head
 * means body
 * In a tag the / means the end of the 'blah blah'.
 * //Nesting// means to put the tags inside of each other so that they don't //Overlap.// Overlap: div>;
 * Meta Elements are empty elements that describe a document but are not visable in the document itself.
 * The 'I' Element means italics and is sometimes referred to as a literal element because it literally specifys a characteristic.
 * The 'B' Element means bold and is also sometimes referred to as a literal element.
 * The 'EM' and 'STRONG' elements are used to emphasis something. The 'EM' element shows up in italics and the 'STRONG' element shows up in bold.
 * 'U' is the underline element and it underlines text.
 * The BLOCKQUOTE is used to tag a block of text as a "block quote".
 *  is the Delete element and  is the insert element.
 * The SUP tag means superscript. It is used to superscript in text. This is a superscript: "¹"
 * The SUB tag means subscript. It is used to subscript in text.
 * Destination anchors mark locations in a document
 * A Return Link allows a visitor to return to an area they were before.
 * A footnote separator line is a HR element and is used to seperate footnotes and the rest of the text in the document.
 * Endnotes are like footnotes but are located after an arcticle or book instead of at the end.
 * An anchor links you to another place in the document. <#>
 * makes text larger If you use multiple bigs
 * blah blah then you can increase the text to even larger.
 * makes text smaller
 * A table is someting used in HTML to organize work. It lets you format data that is arranged in rows and columns.
 *  is the beginning of an ordered list and  is list information. is unordered list.
 * is a page break.
 * &reg; is the register sign and &trade; is the trademark sign.
 * Using the TT element you can highlight screen labels.
 * The code element displays strings of computer code.
 * The PRE element preformats data or shows it on the webpage as it is.
 * The TH element means table heading, the TD element means table data, and the TR element means table row. All these are used when making a table.
 * The Border attribute makes a border around the table.
 * CELLPADDING and CELLSPACING attributes let you control amount of padding in the cell and the amount of space between cells.
 * You can use the WIDTH element to change not only the width of the table but also the width of a cell of a colomn.
 * The ROWSPAN and COLSPAN attributes let you control how many columns or rows a cell takes up.
 * The VALIGN attribute lets you put the contents of a cell at the top, bottom, middle, or along the common baseline.
 * You can use the FONT element to help you control the look of the tabel by changeing the color, size and face.
 * You can also use the BACKGROUND and BGCOLOR attributes to help you alter the apperance of the table by inserting pictures in the background or changeing the background's color.
 * Using th background attribute you can insert pictures and change the color of the background of the table.
 * The TBODY, THEAD, and TFOOT elements let you choose what the rows and columns look like so that you don't have to do it seperately within the table data tags.
 * A Frame allows you to put a webpage within another webpage.
 * css means Cascading Style Sheets. Using a style you can choose the apperance of an element so that it applies anywhere in the document.
 * stands for image source and it will tell the browser where to find the picture.
 * HSPACE lets you set the amount of horizontal space added to each side of the image.
 * ALT text is text that shows up when you put your mouse on an image.