Sunday, October 5, 2008

I am using an HTML, CSS, editor called Coda. The claim is that it allows one to create content without having all these separate tools open, such as a text editor. I am playing real stupid and just typing plain text into an HTML file.

I suspect that it will have little effect except to scrunch white space out of my text.

And that was correct. It ignored all line breaks. So now I will add some markup and make sure it renders as I hope. Then, I will try to add style. One thing I did notice and like about this product is that it includes some books, presumably some syntax and usage info for the markups.

The way this is designed, you set the tags first. The editor balances open and close tags and sets the cursor between them so you can just type, for example, paragraph fill.

The markup renders as one would expect. I am going to go back and add some white space between paragraphs just to make sure that the HTML is more readable.

I just added style to the body element. I worked well. The background is light green with darker-blue letters sans-serif lettering, Verdana, Arial