The Smiling Teacher's Virtual Notebook

HTML 1

Week 2

This week, I have learned about various tags and special symbols. Below is a list of some of these tags and symbols.

• <br> The break tag does not need a closing tag.


• <p> paragraph Values are used in the paragraph opening tag to align the paragraph to the left or right. The paragraph can also be aligned in the center, or you can justify the paragraph to be straight on both the left and right margins.


• <i> italics


• <b> bold


• <u> underline


• <em> emphasis


• <strong> strong emphasis


• <hr> The horizontal rule does not need a closing tag. Attributes can be place in the horizontal rule tag. Width creates the length of the horizontal rule by using values such as 50% which covers 1/2 of the width of the page or the value of 25% which covers 1/4 of the width of the page. Another attribute is align which can have the value of right or left. The third attribute is size such as 5 or 10 which make the line thicker.


• <hr noshade> Although no shade is an attribute, it does not need to be placed in quotation marks.


• <blockquote> This will slightly draw the margins in on the left and right to show a quote.


• <center> center


• <ul> unordered list In the unordered list, the attribute type can be used to specify a kind of bullet. The value for the type of bullet can be square, circle (open circle), or disc (solid circle). Not all browsers make a distinction between the bullet types.


• <ol> ordered list
• © Use (&copy;) to make the copyright symbol.
• &nbsp; This is the non-breaking space character which is used to create space at the beginning of a paragraph to indent it or to create extra space between words.
• <!– –   – –> This tag is used to show hidden comments on the web page. Any text written between the dashes will not show up on the actual screen.

Next week at school, I will be completing my technology unit with my students. We have read many books about the gingerbread man. The students really enjoyed reading other versions like:

1. The Cajun Gingerbread Man
2. The Runaway Tortilla
3. The Runaway Rice Cake
4. The Musubi Man: the Hawaiian Gingerbread Man

My students will complete their mouse-drawn images of the gingerbread man using Paint Shop Pro, and I will compile a booklet for them of their classmates' illustrations.

Below is a list to some helpful HTML resource sites for:

• url paths


• special character codes

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