HTML or any front-end language can be a real pain when the function you are trying to achieve is not being applied. Whether you are embedding a video or linking to a video source URL, without knowing how to center a video in HTML, it will default to the margins set for your page layout …
The ability to move images in HTML is an extremely handy thing to know. The drag-and-drop editors make it easy when they work, but when something fails and you have to manually edit the HTML source code to move images, things can get tricky. Many of the old methods still work in browsers but they …
JavaScript is the ultimate power tool in a web developer’s arsenal. It can also be their downfall. With power comes anarchy and there is no worse time for it to occur than when you have coded your JS file only to find it fails to load. Could it be a server issue and not a …
Multiple methods exist to indent a paragraph. In HTML, only two methods work, and only in very specific circumstances should they be used. That is the pre tag and the blockquote. The reason for that is that those apply meanings to your markup. HTML tags are used to structure your document. CSS properties are assigned …
So many HTML tags! B, strong, h1, h2, h3, font-weight, style… which one needs to be removed to unbold text in HTML? It can be so frustrating when all you want to do is a little text formatting. How difficult can it be? Honestly, it depends on why the text is bolded in the first …
Working with HTML for images can be a real pain. Just when you think you have it nailed, the preview shows the images dropping to a new line. Surprisingly, the HTML code to display images side by side is simple. What is not so easy is assigning captions to either a group of images or, …
Bullet points are finicky to style. Depending on which method you use to align bullet points, browsers have a tendency to do their own thing anyway. You could see your bullet points aligned in the Chrome Browser, but on Safari, it may look drastic. Thankfully, there is more than one way to align bullet points …
Adding columns in HTML is a neat way to improve your reader’s journey because it makes your data far more digestible. Trouble is, columns in HTML are added using the table tag, and since that is not responsive, it is not the best option. Using the HTML table tag spans your columns the width of …
The use of GIFs in websites and email marketing has skyrocketed in the past seven or so years. You probably might not believe it if you learned from this post that GIFs were created more than 30 years ago, with CompuServe being the first company to use a GIF in 1987. Although it has taken …