Question

How are you doing?

am having a little difficulty writing my first HTML website! am stuck on a little few details that I would really appreciate it if you guys help me a little bit with, again this is my first time I write HTML so I apologize is my mistakes and questions are kinda trivial.

here are my questions:

am trying to make a green background at the top of the page, but I cant figure out how, I tired using bgcolor to color the row where the table sits on but that doesnt seem to work.

Here is what I tired to do:

<tr bgcolor = "green">
        <table width = "50%">
            <tr>
                <td><a href = "http://www.google.com"> Home </a></td>
                <td><a href = "http://www.google.com> About Us </a></td>
                <td><a href = "http://www.google.com> Products </a></td>
                <td><a href = "http://www.google.com> Services </a></td>
                <td><a href = "http://www.google.com> Contact Us </a></td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </tr>

another problem when trying to write something next to the input fields (the username password input fields); when trying to write “Office all is an internet store that…”, instead of appearing right next to the input fields they appear under them!

here is what I did

<tr>
        <td>
            <form action = "processor.class" method = "get">
                User Name:
                <p/>
                <input type = "text"  name = "txtName" size = "10" />
                <p/>
                Password: 
                <p/>
                <input type = "password" name = "txtPassword" size = "10" />
                <p/>
                <input type = "submit" value = "Login"/> <a href = "http://www.jce.ac.il"> Register account</a>
            </form>
        </td>

        <td>
        office all is an internet...
        </td>

    </tr>

Can you help me out please?

thanks =)

EDIT: thank you guys for your help, as u all suggested I will try to read a CSS tutorial and stop using tables, I will close this thread now and open it when and if I have more questions to ask (after i learn a lil more about CSS)

Answer 1

Wherever you are learning web development from, dump that book/tutorial/whatever and pick up something a little more recent. Using tables to lay out pages is a very poor way of doing things. If you are just learning web development, you should be learning how to lay out pages with CSS, not tables.