HTML (HyperText Mark Up Language)

HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used to create web pages.

In this course you do not learn the HTML code, as Dreamweaver does it (fortunately) in the background for you.

However, sometimes Dreamweaver does not interpret your commands, so it's an idea to look behind the scenes.

Take this page for example.

The code that makes the page work is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Headers</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
color: #CC3300;
}
body {
background-color: #336699;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
.style2 {color: #CC3300}
-->
</style></head>

<body>
<table width="800" border="0" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td valign="top"><div align="center">HTML (Hyper Text Mark Up Language)</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><blockquote>
<p align="justify" class="style2">HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used to create web pages. </p>
</blockquote></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><blockquote>
<p>In this course you will not learn the HTML code, as Dreamweaver does it (fortunately) in the background for you.</p>
<p>However, sometimes Dreamweaver does not interpret your commands, so it's an idea to look behind the scenes.</p>
<p>Take this page for example.</p>
</blockquote></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><div align="center"><img src="IMGP0479.jpg" width="500" height="332" /></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><blockquote>
<p>The code that makes the page work is:</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</blockquote></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
<br />
<br />
</body>
</html>

In the above code the only code line you need to look out for is:

<p>&nbsp;</p>

This code represents a line space (hard return on enter) that you may/may not need.

If it's there and the delete or bacskpace won't remove it, then go to the code and remove the line, then tidy the code up by not having a break in the code.

Line Spacing:

This is a hard return (enter)

...........

This is a soft return (shift enter)
...........

The difference is in the height of the line spacing.