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Talking to the browser
When we code in HTML, CSS, JS, etc. we are communicating to the browser. That’s what we do as web designers. We are telling the browser how to display content. The browser understands many different languages. It understands, HTML, CSS, JavaSript, XML, SVG and others. Each of those languages have their own syntax. For the…
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Containers
This brief article is about HTML containers. In the “real” world, a container is simply something that holds, i.e. contains, things. Wooden boxes, mesh bags, tots, purses, backpacks, and plastic airtight kitchen containers like Tupperware® are all containers. A toolbox is a container. A sock drawer is a container. If we are properly organized, then…
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Validation
While trying to solve a validation issue in one of my web sites I came across the following forum posting. It was stated so well that I decided to re-post it here. I want to encourage my readers to understand that when a page doesn’t pass validation, it doesn’t mean that the page is “broken”.…
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wwwroot
In the unit A project the author has you create a folder named wwwroot. Why? When you get a web host account, you’ll find that there a number of folders that you have to work with. One folder will be the designated folder where all of your publicly accessible web files will be located. Different…
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Video in HTML files
Hosting and streaming video requires a lot of storage and bandwidth. Many shared hosting plans will allow you to host your video. In this instance, you would use the <video> tag to provide that content to your users. However the performance can sometimes be terrible because shared hosting can contain many web sites and are…
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Browser coordinate system
Student Question: “I have a question about the box shadows: what if you don’t want the box shadows to appear on the right and bottom of the box? The code that we used (ex. -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px black;) doesn’t specify locations. What if, instead, I wanted the shadows to appear on the top and…
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