Category: References

In this article we have created list of deprecated tags and attributes, few of these tags and attributes will still give you the result you want but it has been deprecated by the officials, rather than using mentioned tags and attributes we can use the mentioned alternatives. Deprecated tags & attributes are those tags that…

Character encoding is a method of converting bytes into characters. To validate or display an HTML document properly, a program must choose a proper character encoding. HTML Charset Attribute The HTML charset attribute of meta tag is used to mention character encoding of webpage. <meta charset=”UTF-8″> The ASCII Character Set The most common character set…

HTML ISO Language 639 is used as a standardized nomenclature to identify languages. Every language is assigned with two-letter and three-letter lowercase abbreviation. The ISO 639-1 also known as part 1 ISO, defines the two-letter codes for languages and ISO 639-3 ( Part 3 ISO ) defines the three-letter codes for all known natural languages.…

URL encoding is the practice of translating unprintable characters or characters with special meaning within URLs to a representation that is unambiguous and universally accepted by web browsers and servers. These characters include − The encoding notation replaces the desired character with three characters: a percent sign and two hexadecimal digits that correspond to the…

MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension) media types were originally devised so that e-mails could include information other than plain text. MIME media types indicate the following things − Now MIME types are not just for use with e-mail; they have been adopted by Web servers as a way to tell Web browsers what type of…

HTML Entities HTML entities are used to display special characters on the webpage that are reserved in HTML or have special meaning. HTML entities are also useful to display characters that are not available on the standard keyword. An HTML entity starts with the ampersand sign (&) and ends with a semicolon (;). Example For example, the less than and…

HTML color names are the simplest way to define the color for the HTML elements, as they are predefined names for the colors, such as red, green, blue, etc. By using these HTML color names, you can apply colors without having knowledge of RGB and hexadecimal color codes. Standard Color Names The table below lists the 16 color names introduced in HTML 3.2,…

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. There are 128 standard ASCII codes, each of which can be represented by a 7-digit binary number: 0000000 through 1111111. Extended ASCII adds an additional 128 characters that vary between computers, programs and fonts. 7 Bit ASCII Codes DEC OCT HEX BIN Symbol HTML Code Description…

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. There are 27 = 128 printable characters which can be represented by different 7-BIT ASCII codes, each of which can be represented by a 7-digit binary number from 0000000 to 1111111. Extended ASCII adds an additional 128 characters that vary between computers, programs and fonts. HTML Codes – Table…

Fonts are specific to platform. You will have a different look and feel of a web page on different machines running different operating systems, like Windows, Linux, or Mac iOS. Here we are giving a list of fonts that are available in various operating systems. HTML <font> tag is deprecated in version 4.0 onwards, and now all…