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Inline/Online: Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web, 2/e
Raymond Greenlaw, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Ellen Hepp, The University of New Hampshire
Advanced HTML

Chapter 9 Exercises

  • Create a Web page with a frameset declaration consisting of four columns, each of which takes up 25 percent of the width of the browser window. Write three different frameset declarations that achieve the same result. (section 9.2, problem 4)
  • Create the French flag, using frames. (section 9.2, problem 7)
  • Make a checkerboard (eight by eight) using frames. Be sure the colors are correct. (section 9.2, problem 9)
  • Write a select declaration with three options: camp here, push on, and go to town. The select tag should behave like a set of radio buttons. (section 9.3, problem 27)
  • Write a select tag declaration to offer a selection from a group of ten CDs, from which the user can pick six. Allow six options to be displayed at a given time. The default selections should be CDs 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 10. (section 9.3, problem 28)
  • Are you permitted to write and install CGI scripts at your installation? Are any local scripts available for your use? If so, what are their functions? (section 9.4, problem 36)
  • Using client pull, create a set of three Web pages that continu-ously cycle every 15 seconds. That is, if the pages are called A , B , and C , then 5 seconds after A is loaded, B should automatically be loaded; 5 seconds later, C should automatically be loaded; 5 seconds later, A should automatically be loaded, and so on. (section 9.5, problem 38)
  • Select an HTML editor that provides templates. Develop a page using one of them. Were you satisfied with the end result, or did it need a lot of hand-tuning? (section 9.6, problem 42)
  • Try one HTML converter on a document format of your choice. Were you pleased with the resulting HTML document’s appearance? Why? Was the converter’s documentation easy to understand and complete? (section 9.6, problem 47)
  • What are the six font properties specified by the CSS standard? (section 9.8, problem 54)
  • Suppose you are out hiking the Appalachian Trail and meet a thru-hiker who is keeping updates on a Web page about her hike as she goes along. Write a paragraph or two in response to her question, “How can external style sheets help me enhance my presentation?” (section 9.8, problem 58)
  • What elements do you feel should be specified in a master ex-ternal style sheet? (section 9.8, problem 60)








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