Poll: Which tag in HTML did you find the most difficult to understand or master?
Thursday February 22, 2007
There are so many HTML tags that it can be overwhelming to learn them all.
But some tags are harder to understand than others.
Which HTML tag did you find most difficult to learn?
Comments
I wonder why people find the DIV tag so hard to master - I’d think that was one of the easiest. Any suggestions?
For me it’d have to be the FRAME tags, mainly because I’ve never had to use them, but the TABLE tags took me a while to figure out.
DIVs were easy to master, there is nothing complicated about them. I have always found building forms a bit difficult to get right though.
forms are very easy for me,although it was somehow difficult at first.the only one I find it difficult to understand is the frames.please elabrate more on it for me.
Perhaps people find div difficult because it isn’t immediately clear what its purpose is. You can generally describe a tag based on the content it wraps - p is a paragraph, form is a form, table is a table, etc. But a div doesn’t necessarily translate to something familiar. Add in the use of divs to wrap content simply as hooks for CSS and it’s even more confusing for beginners.
DIV does translate to something - Division. It’s used to create divisions, or sections of a page (not to create a box, as it is often used). But other than that, I’d say it was pretty simple.
Chas had some good ideas for why DIV might be difficult, but I suspect it’s something a little simpler:
The location that it’s in on the poll.
I’ve noticed that because of how I post the poll results, some people think the links are going to take them to more information - rather than to voting for that item.
I’m working on some other ways to post the polls that are a little clearer, but I don’t really like the options we have at the moment.
The LINK tag… even when I wrote it according to tutorials, or sometimes if I even copied it I couldn’t get it to link CSS. Now I just use Dreamweaver to link CSS if needed.
Rudi: Ooo good one - I forgot about the link tag. I’ve got this on my list of tags to write more about, you’re right, it’s a confusing one.
Frames are the most difficult for me, never used them much. The rest are fine but we don;t use tables anymore unless necessary for a list, etc.
From a compliance standpoint, the “a” tag is becoming more difficult because of xhtml dropping the “name” attribute.
For me it was difficult to understand the difference between span and div. Then, as a logical step, to know what kind of display every tag has, inline or block. Even now I don’t know all of them. Understanding this difference is a huge part of CSS.
All the tags are very easy, FRAME tag is little bit difficult because nobody can using the frame tag now a days. I am wondering most of users selected DIV tag.