This space will be used to post some of the lessons for class. The site will also be used for J215 students to post their custom HTML/CSS work and to showcase what they have learned.
This post will demonstrate using the <aside></aside> tags, which are designed to place related material “aside” your main material. An aside will start wherever it is placed. Without styling, it will just be a set-off paragraph. So you need to establish things like the width, background color, font, margins, padding and font style in the […]
Here, I made a slideshow in JSFiddle and then embedded the fiddle here using an iframe. (Click on result to see the slideshow.) To make the iframe, use this format: The information in red is adjustable for your specific height and width. Note: Many of the programs you use will create the embed code or […]
If you watched the Unit 2 J215 videos, you may have seen something like this in the HTML: ". This is called an Entity. Entities are codes to use for symbols that you need in text but that are part of the HTML coding. For instance, if you need a greater than or less than […]
The “div” tag is one of the most frequently used tags — sometimes overused. Div stands for division, and the tag basically works as a container. It allows you to group a set of elements together in a block-level box of sorts (meaning, there isn’t necessary a drawn out box). In other words, it creates […]
Using the “class” attribute in HTML is a way you can personalize your code to fit a specific circumstance. It’s an attribute that: In my example, I’ve created a class called “study” and then I’ve used that class, through the CSS, to apply specific characteristics to an HTML tag. Look at this example: Here, I’ve […]