July 2004

Problems with Tips and Tricks

Sometimes, our html tricks do not show up the way you want it to. Before you break your computer, look at these tips and see if you can find your html problem:

Make sure you have completely read the html trick.

Make sure you have written the code on one line.

Make sure you put your quotes in the right places. Double-check your < and >s.

Make sure that the code is put in the correct place of the document. You also have to start a page like this.

If nothing worked, please go to the code help forum, and tell us your problem.

Introduction to Stylesheets

Note: Please learn other html before you advance to stylesheets.

What are stylesheets???

They are a sheet of code right below your <head> which change the the rest of the page, making it more stylish. It can change how bullets, paragraphs, images, etc. all look.

Writing stylesheets

The basic way you write a stylesheet is...

<style type="text/css">

TYPE OF HTML TAG{property: value; secondproperty, value}

</style>

So, let's say you wanted to change how paragraphs look. (paragraphs are made with <p> and </p>

This is how you do it, if you wanted to change the color of paragraphs:

<style type="text/css">

P{color: "green"}

</style>

Observe that since we wanted to change only one property of paragraphs, we simply left out the second property.

....hmmm....

If that stylesheet code was inserted right after the <head>, then all text put between <p> and </p> will be green!.

Now you know some basic principle on creating a stylesheet and stylesheets are one of the best tricks you can have among all the html code on your web page.

In paragraphs, you can also change the font-size and much more.

Instead of changing paragraphs, you can change bullets, or more.

Advanced CSS