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Authors: Chuck Musciano Bill Kennedy
HTML The Definitive Guide (18 page)
HTML forms provide everything you might expect of an automated form, including input area labels, integrated contents for instructions, default input values, and so on - except automatic input verification; your server-side program or client-side applets need to perform that function.
2.8 Images Are Special
2.10 Tables
2.10 Tables
For a language that emerged from academia - a place steeped in data - it's not surprising to find that HTML supports a set of tags for data tables that not only align your numbers, but can specially format your text, too.
Five tags enable tables, including the
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2.9 Lists, Searchable 2.11 Frames Documents, and Forms
2.11 Frames Anyone who has had more than one application window open on their graphical desktop at a time can immediately appreciate the benefits of frames. Frames let you divide the browser window into multiple display areas, each containing a different document. For more information on frames, see Figure 2.6 Figure 2.6: Frames divide the window into many document displays Other booksDance for the Billionaire by Moore, Jewel Sin Incarnate by Archer, T. C. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Behold the Child by Harry Shannon The Paris Affair by Teresa Grant Sex Secrets of an American Geisha by Conant, Py Kim The Lost Years by E.V Thompson Nanny X Returns by Madelyn Rosenberg The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda BELGRADE by Norris, David |
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