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From: Becca Price <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 10:44 AM
Subject: HTML Help help, please?
> I've inherited an HTML Help project, and am trying to
> fugure out what my predecessor did. I thought I was
> pretty good with HTML, but some of the tags are new to
> me!
>
> Can someone help me interpret: the following lines?
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2
> Final//EN">
This is SGML, technically, but it just means that the document
conforms to the Document Type Definition (DTD) defined by the World Wide
<meta> tags go in the header to help specify the document
type to the browser...the http_equiv attribute names the name/value pair
in
the MIME document header that the browser sees before it sees the
document itself.
You can use <object> to embed something (like a Java applet)
in the way you'd use <embed> or <applet>. Classid tells you where the
object is (location).
> <A NAME="hlp_window_tilevert"></A>
> (this one has me stumped: I'm not sure what the
> utility of a tag with nothing between the <a> and </a>
> tags is)
Using the name attribute with an anchor tag marks a place
within the document rather than making a hyperlink, so you don't need
anything between the open and close tags. Elsewhere in the document is
there a
set of tags that looks something like
<a href="#hlp_window_tilvert">sometext</a> ?
> sometimes the <A NAME= tags are encolsed in
> <SUP></SUP> tags.
These make superscript, so the enclosed text will be about half
a line higher.
> Thanks much!
Hope this helps a bit.. :/
> Is there a list similar to winhlp-l for html help?
> -Becca
I don't know about a list, but I can cheerfully recommend
_HTML: The Definitive Guide_ by Musciano and Kennedy... it's an
O'Reilly
book. (Yay!)
