The HTML Geolocation API is used to locate a user’s position.
The HTML Geolocation API is used to get the geographical position of a user.
Since this can compromise privacy, the position is not available unless the user approves it.
The HTML <audio> element is used to play an audio file on a web page.
To play an audio file in HTML, use the <audio> element:
<audio controls>
<source src="horse.ogg" type="audio/ogg">
<source src="horse.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
The HTML <video> element is used to show a video on a web page.
To show a video in HTML, use the <video> element:
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
Multimedia on the web is sound, music, videos, movies, and animations.
Multimedia comes in many different formats. It can be almost anything you can hear or see, like images, music, sound, videos, records, films, animations, and more.
Web pages often contain multimedia elements of different types and formats.
The first web browsers had support for text only, limited to a single font in a single color.
Later came browsers with support for colors, fonts, images, and multimedia!
Multimedia elements (like audio or video) are stored in media files.
The most common way to discover the type of a file, is to look at the file extension.
Multimedia files have formats and different extensions like: .wav, .mp3, .mp4, .mpg, .wmv, and .avi. Continue reading HTML Multimedia
SVG defines vector-based graphics in XML, which can be directly embedded in HTML pages.
SVG graphics are scalable, and do not lose any quality if they are zoomed or resized:
SVG is supported by all major browsers.
The HTML <svg> element is a container for SVG graphics.
SVG has several methods for drawing paths, rectangles, circles, polygons, text, and much more.
The HTML <canvas> element is used to draw graphics, on the fly, via JavaScript.
The <canvas> element is only a container for graphics. You must use JavaScript to actually draw the graphics.
Canvas has several methods for drawing paths, boxes, circles, text, and adding images.
Canvas is supported by all major browsers.
An HTML form is used to collect user input. The user input is most often sent to a server for processing.
See the Pen
HTML Forms by Iampsp.com (@iampsp)
on CodePen.
XHTML is a stricter, more XML-based version of HTML.
XML is a markup language where all documents must be marked up correctly (be “well-formed”).
XHTML was developed to make HTML more extensible and flexible to work with other data formats (such as XML). In addition, browsers ignore errors in HTML pages, and try to display the website even if it has some errors in the markup. So XHTML comes with a much stricter error handling.
A URL is another word for a web address.
A URL can be composed of words (e.g. iampsp.com), or an Internet Protocol (IP) address (e.g. 192.68.20.50).
Most people enter the name when surfing, because names are easier to remember than numbers.
Web browsers request pages from web servers by using a URL.
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is used to address a document (or other data) on the web.
A web address like https://iampsp.com/blog/ follows these syntax rules :
scheme://prefix.domain:port/path/filename
To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know which character set to use.
The character set is specified in the <meta> tag:
<meta charset="UTF-8">