Chapter 5, Exercise

If you really don't need the practice, you can advance.

Nothing solidifies learning like practice. That's all this exercise is for. Try doing the exercise without help from the lessons, and see how you make out. Then consult the lessons as required to make your page come out correctly. If you really get stuck, go to the example solution. And when you're done, compare your solution to ours. (But don't presume that because you did it differently than our example that it's wrong; rather, compare so as to see different ways of doing the same thing; it can be quite educational). We suggest submitting your page to a validation service, just to catch any errors that aren't obvious at first glance. Two free services that I know of are Doctor HTML and TechWeb's HTML Validation Service

Here's the practice exercise:

Build a web page called "Mystery Colors" and do the following:

• Specify a black background
• Use the '<FONT>' tag to make a large headline, colored gray, called "Mystery Colors")
• center the headline (above)
• start a new paragraph, aligned center
• the text will be a single line with 39 adjacent 'X's. However, each 3 'X's will have a different color, as follows, in order:
  

  000000
  000080
  0000FF
  0080FF
  00FFFF
  00FF80
  00FF00
  80FF00
  FFFF00
  FF8000
  FF0000
  800000
  000000
  

• Don't forget things like the html, head, title, body, and title tags
• Don't forget to use closing tags where they are required.

If you find the instructions difficult to follow, you can look at an example of the working web page in action, and try to duplicate it's behavior by writing your own HTML file. Have fun with it! Try out different things, to see what works and what doesn't, but try to end up with something that pretty much complies with the HTML guidelines. If you get stuck, check out our example solution.

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