The W3C is the closest thing that HTML and CSS have to a standards body. It recognises that it is unofficial by issuing “recommendations” rather than standards. There is a point though where I believe that one of their recommendations does become a standard and that is when all of the commonly used browsers support [...]

The doctype tag serves a number of purposes. It identifies the language that the web page is written in so that validators will know what standard to validate your page against and it tells browsers that you are using proper (X)HTML that follows the rules and should be displayed that way. Without a doctype each [...]

It just isn’t possible to add semantic tags for every possible thing that people may want to add into their HTML. Thousands of different tags would just lead to even more people marking up their content with the wrong tags than is currently the case (consider how many web pages incorrectly use the table tag [...]

If you haven’t used CSS to style your web pages before then you may want to start out by applying some simple CSS to parts of your page to change the way those page elements look. In this tutorial I look at how you can make some text take on a new appearance by adding [...]

How easy or difficult it is going to be to process forms on your web page depends on how you code the HTML for the form. In this tutorial we take a look at a few simple tricks for coding the HTML that will make processing some form field types much easier both in your [...]

Trying to encrypt your web page content is completely pointless if your goal is to stop your visitors from being able to decrypt the content since either their web browser can decrypt it for them or they will not be able to access the content at all (in which case you have wasted your time [...]

Converting HTML code into something that can be displayed in a web page as text is really easy using this form. Displaying HTML Source Code in Web Pages

If only some of your form fields are actually getting to the server then there are a number of things that might be wrong. In this article we consider many of the possible causes and how to fix them. Problems with Forms

How wide to make web pages is a topic that constantly appears in forums even though the appropriate answer has not changed in many years. Perhaps it is because the answer to how wide to make web pages has nothing whatever to do with screen resolution is the cause of the problem as those who [...]

I have added this page to the HTML section of the site even though it is about JavaScript because the intended audience are those people who want to be able to use a script written by someone else with their site and who don’t actually know or want to learn JavaScript themselves. This page gives [...]

It is amazing how many sites that there are selling products to protect the HTML source of your web page. The surprising thing isn’t how many different products that there are available in this market with prices ranging from free to several hundred dollars. The surprising thing is that such products are sold in the [...]

I have seen requests from people asking how to use JavaScript to prevent part of the content of a textarea being changed. Well this solution doesn’t use any JavaScript and so will work even for visitors without JavaScript. Textarea With Partly Fixed Content