The basic HTML code to create a rectangle is as follows:
<rect width="100" height="20" x="10" y="10"></rect>
Let's apply the following style:
rect { stroke-width: 1; stroke:steelblue; fill:#888; fill-opacity: .5; }
We will create a rectangle that starts at the coordinates (10,10), and is 100 pixels wide and 20 pixels high. Based on the styling, it will have a blue outline, a gray interior, and will appear slightly opaque. See the following output and example
http://localhost:8080/chapter-2/rectangle.html:
There are two more attributes that are useful when creating rounded borders
(rx and ry):
<rect with="100" height="20" x="10" y="10" rx="5" ry="5"></rect>
These attributes indicate that...