4 - HTML Web Apps
Created Friday 06 February 2015
Character Encoding
The charset attribute specifies the character encoding for the HTML document. Since our content is going to be in UTF-8 we will define the charset as UTF-8. UTF-8 can also handles ASCII. And hence the mixed content of UTF-8 and ASCII in the document renders well when the charset is defined as UTF-8. Below I have example code to define the charset and also the screenshots of broswer displaying the same content with charset not defined and defined as UTF-8.
<head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> </head>
Or you can use the old way
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Ordered Lists
Support for Indic based order lists are very browser specific. But most modern browsers support it. Its done using list-style-type CSS attribute. For example setting list-style-type to kannada will produce list numbering as described in the CSS3 Lists module and displays Kannada numerals. Quite a few Indian languages like Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalm, Devnagari, Bengali etc are supported. Below I have demo code and rendering of the same in browser
<ol style="list-style-type:kannada"> <li>First</li> <li>Second</li> <li>Third</li> </ol> <ol style="list-style-type:devanagari"> <li>First</li> <li>Second</li> <li>Third</li> </ol> <ol style="list-style-type:hindi"> <li>First</li> <li>Second</li> <li>Third</li> </ol>
