PBDS 660: Introduction to Hypermedia

Lecture 12

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Final Exam Information

XHTML elements

You should plan to be able to write XHTML 1.0 strict code that will structure a page that looks something like this:

dictionary page for the hypermedia final exam

You will be given a document with the basic text to be displayed for one of the two pages you will create. The other you will write from scratch. You will also be given the DOCTYPE declaration and the statement that specifies the character set (so you don't have to memorize those). You will write the XHTML for both pages and a style sheet for both pages. The style sheet will be stored in a specified directory and will either be linked or imported from that location by a relative path. All links will also use relative paths as will the src value for the img element. The locations of all these external files will be provided to you but you may not copy the image or any of the other external files to avoid using the relative path specified in the instruction sheet.

Study the following elements:

CSS elements

You will need to know how to specify

Quiz 4: One Solution

Here is the code for my solution to the Quiz 4 problem. It does fine with Safari and with Firefox on a PC but runs into issues with IE 6 and 7 on a PC. The problems with IE come, I believe, from the way Microsoft has implemented the box model. If there is time in class tonight, we'll try to solve the issues together.



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