Category Archives: HTML

HTML and XHTML mark-up tips and advise.

Aug
13

Page performance: Specify image dimensions

Posted on Sat 13th August, 2011 by Iain White

When you add an image to a web site you should specify its dimensions. E.g. <img src=”logo.gif” width=”70” height=”80” alt=”Logo” /> If the image is given dimensions then the Browser will allocate it ‘layout space’ when it first renders the … Continue reading →

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Aug
9

Nested lists a common mistake

Posted on Tue 9th August, 2011 by Iain White

Unordered Lists (UL) and Ordered lists (OL) are great. They present data in a nice bullet point layout by default. I list of links with just a sprinkle of CSS magic can become a vertical menu, a breadcrumb menu or … Continue reading →

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Aug
5

ABBR vs ACRONYM HTML tags

Posted on Fri 5th August, 2011 by Iain White

There is some confusion about the difference between ABBR and ACRONYM tags, on the surface they appear to do the same thing. From an English language perspective an abbreviation and an acronym are both shortened forms of a word, phrase … Continue reading →

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