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Category: 4. HTML References

  • ISO Language Codes

    ISO Language Codes The HTML lang attribute declares the language of a web page or only a part of a web page. It is used to help search engines and browsers. W3C suggests to declare the primary language for every web page with the lang attribute inside the <html> tag. See how to do it below: See how it must be in…

  • ISO-8859-1

    ISO-8859-1 (The International Standards Organization) is the default character set in most browsers. The first 128 characters of ISO-8859-1 are the original ASCII character-set (the numbers from 0-9, the uppercase and lowercase English alphabet, and some special characters). Reserved Characters in HTML Some characters are reserved in HTML. That is because these are the characters making up…

  • ASCII

    ASCII, the acronym for the “American Standard Code for Information Interchange” is the first character-encoding scheme used between computers on the Internet. Modern character encoding schemes like UTF-8 and ISO-8859 are built on ASCII. The ASCII Character Set ASCII Character Set was designed in the ’60s, as a standard character set for computers and hardware…

  • HTML Character Sets

    The browser should know what character sets (character encoding) to use. It is required to display an HTML page correctly. UTF-8 is the default character encoding for HTML5. However, it was used to be different. ASCII was the character set before it. And the ISO-8859-1 was the default character set from HTML 2.0 till HTML 4.01. However, there were still problems…