Chrome is a great browser but sometimes it has a lot of security features that end up conflicting with your code and what you’re trying to do. For example, they added a feature that won’t play a video on a website if the sound is …
Today we are talking about how to create unselectable instructions in a HTML select drop down menu. In HTML, when you create a drop down menu using the <select> tag, there will be times when you’ll want to give the user instructions inside the menu …
What is the DOCTYPE? When coding in HTML you will see this really weird looking line up there at the top. It usually looks like this: <!DOCTYPE html> Simply enough, this line tells the browser what version of HTML is being used to create the …
This little snippet of code will show you how to center content in a div horizontally and vertically using HTML and CSS. This, in the past, used to be semi-difficult. Now, using CSS flexbox display property, it’s actually quite easy. First, we’ll create a simple …
Video of this tutorial: Hello everyone! In this post today I’ll be showing how to create a basic HTML file using my favorite text editor Brackets. Brackets is great because it’s free, cross-platform, and has some really nice features when using HTML5. Here is what …
Long ago in the far off land of Switzerland something very interesting began, and Al Gore wasn’t there. 1989 Tim Berners-Lee proposes an Internet based hypertext system for sharing documents between disparate operating systems while working as a contractor at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear …
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 to 20 years ago I sat down one weekend with a book, a computer, and a few images and put together my first basic website. It was about artists from the Impressionist movement and was not anything to brag …
Getting corporate America to make the move to HTML5 seemed to take longer than any other transition we’ve seen in the past. In part I’m sure due to the long development process. From first working draft in January of 2008 to stable recommendation in October …
The checkbox has been a staple in the world of HTML forms since day one and for the most part has remained unchanged. HTML 4 introduced the label tag which can be associated with a checkbox using an id attribute in the checkbox and the …
One of the frustrations designers have been feeling for some time now stems from web design by committee, or design via theme. Many web sites today are WordPress sites with a theme and some content. Just add words and you have an instant site. Then …