Kkiely wrote:
> With HTML
> 1. Why are some font sized set to "12,14,16, etc" but some are set to "1,2,3".
> Is there a preferred way?
> 2. How can I set it so my default font on my page is Arial?
> 3. I heard that even if you have a default font set to Arial on your page that
> has tables that the text in the tables will not obey any global font setting
> you put on the page, is this true? If so, do I have to stick in a a
> "<font="arial"> tag on each cell in the table?
> 4. If you are going to give me a "Use CSS instead" answer, then . . . Can I mix
> CSS and HTML? I am assuming CSS is some sort of an add-on language and not a
> replacement of HTML.
>
OK...I guess we have to take a while to look at the
basics
you'll need to get the detail from some of the tutorials
on the web stuff page of the site in my sig
here goes...first pretend you know nothing at all
html is a mark up language...it adds some context to the
content by using tags...for instance marking that
something is a paragraph beginning or end...or marking
something as being a table of data...in and of itself
html is not visual and only has an impact on the visual
presentation of a page through default browser settings
or through a user defined stylesheet...with html 3 and
before it was assumed that this would all be fairly
consistent and therefore html alone could do
presentation...and a number of purely visual tags were
added to the html spec...such as <font>
html 4 and beyond operate in a new, more flexible and
more efficient way...the html has returned to being
purely conceptual and the visual tags
dropped...presentation is done entirely through the use
of stylesheets
this makes html 4 extremely easy to use...there are fewer
tags and they all have a purely logical function...but it
means learning css to make it look good
css is fairly straightforward...defining fonts, colours
etc is very simple...layout means learning the "box
model" rather than thinking in terms of tables...the box
model is also simple...a piece of content is seen as a
box...in the centre is the content (text or image or
whatever)...the box is filled with padding which you can
specify the size of...and it is bounded by a border which
you can specify the width and appearance of...outside the
box is a margin which separates it from other parts of
the page
all you need then is to read up on how to float something
right or left, how to use clear to keep things in
place...and play about a bit...you'll already have much
the same level of "control" over the layout as with
tables...and that's without getting on to the
possibilities opened up by absolute positioning and the
less consistently supported stuff
you should have a go at trying the site in html 4 with
css...from the sound of it the content is ideal for that
sort of thing...since you could have a very
straightforward index page...and a very easy to update
set of state pages...which I'd guess is likely to be
important
--
eric
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