All Entries Tagged With: "HTML"
Highlight invalid HTML in Expression Web
Some times, while coding your web pages, you must have observed red squiggly lines in your code. This is how Expression Web points out invalid or incompatible HTML in your code. It is advisable that you check your code for compatibility and validity before you publish it. Expression Web has different tools that offer to [...]
Working with line breaks in Expression Web
The basic formatting techniques like Line breaks, white spaces and indentation make your web content stand out and look clean and neat. The HTML <br> tag is used to add line breaks in your page. See below: marks denote line breaks. To view line breaks or other Formatting marks in Expression Web, go to View [...]
Add a background sound to your web page in Microsoft Expression Web
You must have come across websites that play sound (some music) while you are visiting it. Some design sites, personal sites of stylists or e-cards and gift sites usually have such background sound, sometimes on the home page or to all the pages. Personally, I find it irritating. Though you can actually specify how many [...]
Set HTML rules to help search text in your code in Microsoft Expression Web
We often use the Find and Replace tool (CTRL + F) to search for words, in our context, tags, elements, properties and so on in our page. But the same dialog box offers a cool feature of setting HTML rules in your search. These HTML rules let you add conditions as to where in your [...]
Useful Resources for Microsoft Expression Web
Here are some websites and blogs that offer very informative tutorials, articles, tips, tricks, trainings, ebooks and other resources for Microsoft Expression Web. http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc197140.aspx for tutorials, videos, free Expression Web templates. http://any-expression.com - is owned by Tina Clarke, who is a fellow Expression Web MVP. The site features plenty of tutorials, tips, ebooks on Expression Web and FrontPage. [...]
To add a line height to a paragraph using CSS in Microsoft Expression Web 3
There are two ways to do this with CSS; By assigning a line height to all the paragraphs: In the Apply Styles or Manage Styles panel (task pane in earlier versions of Expression Web) click on ‘New Style’. In the selector box, type in ‘p’ and in the Block category, enter a value for line-height, [...]
Customize the appearance of Code and Design View in Microsoft Expression Web 3
As you create a new page and start adding content to it, or when you open an existing page, the way it appears in Code view or Design view is laid down by Expression Web. For instance, in Code view normal text appears in black, HTML comment appears in gray, in Design View Layout table [...]
Creating Style Sheets in Microsoft Expression Web
Microsoft Expression Web has some pre-defined set of style sheets which you can directly use in your document. There are in all 13 style sheets that are written for different purposes like Bars, Blocks, Capsules, Expedition, Highway, Poetic, Sweets and such others. Each of these style sheets has a unique style, with headings, background, font [...]
Class Selectors
We learnt what ‘Element Selectors’ are and how to group declarations and selectors, in our tutorial Element Selectors in CSS. But as you advance in HTML and CSS, you will need more specialized rules to style an element. Apart from document elements (element selectors) there are two other types of selectors you can define on [...]
Easy steps to create a drop down box in Microsoft Expression Web
A drop down box can be created as a form object. But when you want it to be independent, without a form, you could do it with a ‘Jump Menu’. Here is how to create a jump menu, follow these steps: Go to the Behaviors task pane, which should be visible besides the Apply and [...]
