Category: 15. Refrences

A complete list of deprecated HTML tags and attributes are given here. All the tags have been ordered alphabetically along with their equivalent tag or alternate CSS option. Tag Description Alternate <applet> Deprecated. It is used to embed the Java applet. <object> <acronym> Deprecated. It is used for indicating an acronym. <abbr> <basefont> Deprecated. It…

Character encoding is a method of converting bytes into characters. To validate or display an HTML document properly, a program must choose a proper character encoding. The most common character set or character encoding in use on computers is ASCII − The American Standard Code for Information Interchange, and this is probably the most widely used…

The following is a draft list of language code correspondences between ISO codes, Microsoft codes, and Macintosh codes. Source of this information is Unicode Consortium. Language Codes − ISO 639, Microsoft Following are the language codes that are lsited below − Language ISO Code Windows Name Win Code Abkhazian ab Afar aa Afrikaans af LANG_AFRIKAANS 0x36…

URL encoding is the practice of translating unprintable characters or characters with special meaning within URLs to a representation that is unambiguous and universally accepted by web browsers and servers. These characters include − The encoding notation replaces the desired character with three characters: a percent sign and two hexadecimal digits that correspond to the…

MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension) media types were originally devised so that e-mails could include information other than plain text. MIME media types indicate the following things − Now MIME types are not just for use with e-mail; they have been adopted by Web servers as a way to tell Web browsers what type of…

Some characters are reserved in HTML and they have special meaning when used in HTML document. For example, you cannot use the greater than and less than signs or angle brackets within your HTML text because the browser will treat them differently and will try to draw a meaning related to HTML tag. HTML processors…

The following table shows the 16 color names that were introduced in HTML 3.2 − Color Name Hex Value Color aqua #00ffff black #000000 blue #0000ff fuchsia #ff00ff green #008000 gray #808080 lime #00ff00 maroon #800000 navy #000080 olive #808000 purple #800080 red #ff0000 silver #c0c0c0 teal #008080 white #ffffff yellow #ffff00 There are other…

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. There are 128 standard ASCII codes, each of which can be represented by a 7-digit binary number: 0000000 through 1111111. Extended ASCII adds an additional 128 characters that vary between computers, programs and fonts. 7 Bit ASCII Codes DEC OCT HEX BIN Symbol HTML Code Description…

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. There are 27 = 128 printable characters which can be represented by different 7-BIT ASCII codes, each of which can be represented by a 7-digit binary number: 0000000 through 1111111. Extended ASCII adds an additional 128 characters that vary between computers, programs and fonts. 7-BIT Printable ASCII…

Fonts are specific to platform. You will have different look and feel of a web page on different machines running different operating systems like Windows, Linux or Mac iOS. Here we are giving a list of fonts which are available in various operating systems. HTML <font> tag is deprecated in version 4.0 onwards and now…