UNIT II DESIGNING STATIC PAGES USING HTML Chapter 8 ENHANCING WEB PAGE WITH BACKGROUND AND RULES
Dec 05, 2014
UNIT IIDESIGNING STATIC PAGES USING HTML
Chapter 8
ENHANCING WEB PAGE WITH BACKGROUND AND RULES
USING COLORS AND IMAGES AS BACKGROUND
REMINDERS ON PUTTING BACKGROUND COLORS and IMAGES
1. Consider the color harmony, a darker text color will be harmonious with lighter background and a lighter text color with a darker background.
Consider the file size of the image, the bigger the file ,the slower will load your web page.
THE BGCOLOR ATTRIBUTE Background color tag <bgcolor> is
used to set the background color of the entire Web page. The syntax for putting background color is:
<body bgcolor= ncolor> where ncolor is n is the name/code of the color.
Ex. <body bgcolor= red>
Note: You can also used the HTML Color code.
BACKGROUND IMAGE ATTRIBUTE BACKGROUND IMAGE TAG: Instead of
background color, you can also put an image on your Web page to serve as background attribute.
The syntax for adding image background is: <body background= ‘imagefile’> Where imagefile is the file name of the
image you want to put as background. Note: The images should be in the same folder of your
save web page documents.
PUTTING HORIZONTAL RULES Web pages contain information on
different categories, so it a good practice to organize them properly into sections or divisions. To indicate these divisions, a horizontal rule (dividing line) is used. To add a dividing line, the <HR> tag is used.
The syntax is <HR>
<HR> tag WIDTH Attribute The width of a dividing line depends on the
browser screen. For you to control the width of the line, you can
set the WIDTH attribute of the <HR> tag you desired thickness in either pixels or percentage of the width of the browser screen.
The syntax for using the WIDTH attribute is:
<HR WIDTH= pixels> or <HR WIDTH= percent>
Ex. <HR width= 50> or <HR width= 25%>
The <HR> tag SIZE attribute Size attribute defines the thickness of a
line. The syntax to do this is:
<HR Size= pixels>
Ex. <HR Size= 1>
Note: The default size is 2 pixels
<HR> tag ALIGN attribute HR are centered by default. To specify
your desired alignment, you set the ALIGN attribute of the <HR> tag to LEFT, RIGHT, or CENTER.
The syntax for doing this is:
<HR ALIGN= alignment>
Ex. <HR ALIGN= left>
<HR NOSHADE> if you don’t want the HR to have shading.