HTML Help Please.

Iwasgoodonce · Jul 29, 2010

Very off topic this one. I have decided that the twins are going to write their own web pages as a summer holiday task. This measn that I have to learn how to do it too! I have several already out of date books and believe I can sort most problems as they arise. So far I have a nice bordered box with silver infill offereing a brief introduction. It all works rather well apart from now I have added another paragraph below the box (on the HTML page) which manages to fit in above my introduction.
Why would it do this? If the codes are written below the first bit, shouldn't they appear like that in the web browser?

Help!

orange71 · Jul 29, 2010

you not looking to get some software to do the job rather than raw html? There are plenty of free ones out there...

drystonepaul · Jul 29, 2010

If you post up the coding, I'll have a look at it. Could be a number of things based on what you're describing.

zigzag · Jul 29, 2010

I'll make a few assumptions...

If you did the box using

Code:

<TABLE>

then make sure the paragraph for your text, ie.

Code:

<P>

is after the table end tag, ie.

Code:

</TABLE>

MartinYorkshire · Jul 30, 2010

Eeek.

Find a paste bin and post the source for people to see. Best way by far. Anything else is pretty much wasting time

http://pastebin.com/

barry2017 · Jul 30, 2010

If you want to teach them HTML, a text editor is best.

If you just move the text around inside the tags it will end up in the right place. Plus you'll work out how it works.

If you want to give them a nice, visual introduction to programming too, perhaps the next thing would be a bit of Javascript?

Iwasgoodonce · Jul 30, 2010

drystonepaul":mvsew2i7 said:
If you post up the coding, I'll have a look at it. Could be a number of things based on what you're describing.

Here you go:

drystonepaul · Jul 30, 2010

I see the problem.

You need to close your table tag. Put this:

Code:

</table>

in between your

Code:

</tr>

and your

Code:

<p>

It should look like more like this:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Holiday Website Project</title>
<body>
<span style="font family:serif"></span>
<table border="3">
<tr>
<td style="background-color:silver"><h2><u><center>Introduction to our site</center></u></h2>Charles and Hayley are twins.....</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Let's get things started with a family photograph...</p>

Good work on learning HTML. That's how I started out and it does help enormously when building sites and tweaking code. I would recommend using a package like 'Dreamweaver' though once you've got the grasp of basic HTML.
It does speed work-flow up by generating code for you, as well as introducing incredibly useful 'Cascading Style Sheets', PHP and Java script into the mix.

Iwasgoodonce · Jul 30, 2010

Thanks for the advice, that works now! Images next. Thanks again.

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