Thursday, September 30, 2010

This an attempt to learn html.

That shows that the font defaults to Arial small. Now I will try large.

Next I will try both large and Times typeface.

Which doesn't work because the html editor puts in lots of repetitive stuff, enters stuff then cancels it, toward no end. And enters nothing for Times. I will try it with a different typeface, say Arial.

Still nothing possibly because Arial is the default typeface so there was nothing to enter? Now for courier, the typewriter typeface.

Again but forcing it this time by typing in ' font="courier" ' in one of the apparently defective formatting commands.

What the hell does it want?

Ah that is what it wantedApparently it is backward compatible to an earlier version of HTML that I found in a tutorial which uses the expression and then ends with

It uses numbers from 1 to 7 for sizes rather than "large" or "small". Now I should also be able to set both size and typeface in a single font statement.

It should even be possible to set color as well in the same font statment. Are there other attributes than typeface, size, and color?

The fact that the more modern CSS (cascading style sheet) coding no longer works suggests strongly that in its last update Google introduced a bug they have not yet got rid of.


Which means that I am reduced to learning and applying CSS html code myself. What a revolting development this is...


Which means that I am reduced to learning and applying CSS html code myself. What a revolting development this is...Which means that I am reduced to learning and applying CSS html code myself. What a revolting development this is...Which means that I am reduced to learning and applying CSS html code myself. What a revolting development this is...Which means that I am reduced to learning and applying CSS html code myself. What a revolting development this is...Which means that I am reduced to learning and applying CSS html code myself. What a revolting development this is...Which means that I am reduced to learning and applying CSS html code myself. What a revolting development this is...Which means that I am reduced to learning and applying CSS html code myself. What a revolting development this is...Which means that I am reduced to learning and applying CSS html code myself. What a revolting development this is...


Apparently 'text-align' is just another setting like font-size and is entered the same way.

2 comments:

  1. steve4:06 PM

    If you really want to learn HTML, install a copy of Apache Web server on your laptop. Then you can create HTML web pages on your local machine and see exactly what does what.

    You should also look at CSS. It a technology that allows one to separate look and feel from Web content. Blogger allows you to define custom templates that includes custom CSS. http://www.blogger.com/template-editor.g?blogID=4010125631613458355

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  2. You must be very bored. :)

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