Style sheets testing page

Jukka Korpela, jkorpela@malibutelecom.com

This is just a page for testing style sheets. The page contains all kinds of HTML elements, just to allow you to see how they are presented.

Basic text elements

It is important to have emphasized phrases presented properly and very important to have them legible at the minimum. A tough question: what happens when you have nested text markup so that both elements will likely be presented in italics, like a book title like Kalevala within emphasized text.

A defining occurrence of a term should be easy to detect.

HTML is poor in mathematics, even in simple math like x₁+…+x_n.

Text elements in describing man-machine interaction

The following Perl script prints out its input so that each line begins with a running line number:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$line = 1;
while (<>) {
  print $line++, " ", $_; }

The scalar variable $line is of course the line counter.

The loop construct is of the form
while (<>) {
process one line of input }

Assuming that you have written this script (the simpler version of it) into a file named lines, you could test it using a command of the form
./lines datafile
In particular, using the script as input to itself, you would do as follows (the details of system output vary from one system to another):

lk-hp-23 perl 251 % ./lines lines
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2 $line = 1;
3 while (<>) {
4   print $line++, " ", $_; }
lk-hp-23 perl 252 %

A simple table

The following table is from Learning HTML 3.2 by Examples.

attribute name	possible values	meaning	notes
NAME	`string`	a name for a link end	must be unique within the document; case sensitive
HREF	`URL`	network address for the linked resource	could be another HTML document, a PDF file, an image etc
REL	`string`	the forward relationship also known as the "link type"; see notes on REL and REV values in the general description of links	in principle, could be used by browsers and other softwarein several ways, eg to determine to how to deal with the linked resource when printing out a collection of linked resources
REV	`string`	the reverse relationship:	a link from document `A` to document `B` with REV=`relation` expresses the same relationship as a link from `B` to `A` with REL=`relation`.
TITLE	`string`	a title for the linked resource	advisory; see remarks below

A simple form

A form for doing an Advanced Search on AltaVista:

As the Romans said, Finis coronat opus.