Some of the pages that I find the easiest to write are those that have resulted from my getting involved in an “argument” on a forum regarding some particular issue. In this particular instance the discussion was on the difference between HTML and XHTML. One comment that I made was that Internet Explorer does not [...]

Something which I probably ought to have added to the site a long time ago but better late than never. This is an (X)HTML summary listing all of the (X)HTML tags and the attributes that each supports. The list excludes those tags and attributes that have been deprecated or which were never part of the [...]

When coding your web pages there are two ways to specify the address of other files that you want the page to reference. You can use absolute addresses that include the domain name or relative addresses that don’t. Obviously external references need to use absolute addresses but internal ones are better done using relative references. [...]

Meta data is data about your data. In the case of web pages the meta tags provide a way to give visitors information about the page such as who wrote it, content ratings etc. You can also supply search engines with a brief description of what your page is about.
Meta Tags

Adding buttons into your web page is very easy using the <button> tag. Simply surround the content that is to appear in the button between the opening and closing tag. Of course you would also need to add some JavaScript if you want the button to actually do anything (unless you combine it with an [...]

If you are creating a new web site these days, there is no excuse for not using a strict doctype for your page. Those tags which are proprietary or deprecated have all been replaced with a better way of achieving the same result that is better supported by more browsers either using stylesheets or JavaScript. [...]

One of the oldest sections of the Ask Felgall web site is the series of reference pages on XHTML 1.0. Of corse its having been there for over seven years doesn’t mean that the information those pages contain are not still useful since the XHTML 1.0 standards are still the same today as they were [...]