After great effort, too much effort, not enough result, several years ago I managed to get a basic page working. Now I am trying to put a border around the navigation box and set its background color. I have tried a few tutorial sites but they seem to leave a few things out and I cannot get it working.
The full web page is here https://us-path-forward.com/presidential_pardon.htm
The lead in code section with the nav bar is below,( with a few changes from my edit attempts). How must this be changed to implement a border and background color around the navigation box.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="bkelly.css" href="bkelly.css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>www.bkelly.ws Home Page</title>
<meta name="description" content="irig standards chapter 10">
<meta name="main-nav" background:"#F1F1F1">
</head>
<body>
<div id="lead_in">
<h1>Presidential Pardon</h1>
</div>
<!-- Site navigation menu -->
<ul id="main_nav" >
<li><a href="https://us-path-forward.com/index.htm">Home Pagexxx</a>
<li><a href="https://us-path-forward.com/resistance_to_change.htm">Resistance to Change</a>
<li><a href="https://us-path-forward.com/amendments.htm">Constitutional Amemdments</a>
<li><a href="https://us-path-forward.com/big_money.htm">Citizens United</a>
<li><a href="https://us-path-forward.com/presidential_pardon.htm">Presidential Pardon</a>
</ul>