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HTML Tip: Microsoft Internet Explorer is forgiving to a fault!

If you are just learning to code in HTML, I strongly advice that you do NOT use Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) to look at your object code. MSIE is forgiving to a fault by displaying webpages that contain some of the most henious HTML errors and poorly written code. As an HTML student, you want your mistakes to be observed so you can learn from them. Many mistakes that are tolerated by MSIE would have serious consequences towards the display of your HTML document when viewed under any other platform.

For starts, MSIE doesn't care if you completely forget the opening or closing <HTML>, <HEAD> <TITLE> or <BODY> tags which are supposedly required for an HTML document!

Not only does MSIE tolerate leaving out required tags, forgetting to close tags (i.e. </P>, </TR>, </TD>, </FORM>, </FONT>, </DIV>), it also tolerates leaving out required attributes, or invalid attribute values. (i.e. RGB value not 6 digits long, or leaving out the #, or decimals or non-numeric values in attributes such as "HEIGHT" "WIDTH" or "SIZE").

MSIE is the most commonly used browser on the Internet today since it comes standard with Windows, but for the purpose of learning HTML, I would strongly suggest using a different browser that is more strict on good code such as Firefox or Netscape.

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How to properly use the SIZE, FACE, & COLOR attributes...