Basic HTML: Tips and Pitfalls


  1. Relative Addressing.

  2. Unix & Linux filenames are case sensitive.

  3. HTML interpretation on the browser is not case sensitive, except for anchor names!

  4. HTML text and tags will "wrap" unless one of the following is used...

    • <BR>line break
    • <HR>horizontal line
    • <P>new paragraph
    • <H1></H1> thru <H6></H6>header formats
    • <PRE></PRE>preformatted text

  5. HTML does not recognize tabs or embedded spaces (...other than single spaces between words), except when the <PRE></PRE> command is used.

  6. Clear your "cache".

  7. There are multiple versions of the HTML standard. The most current in use is 3.0.

  8. Not all browsers or versions of the same publisher support HTML in the same way.