Friday, October 2, 2015

Chapter 2 HTML Basics

Important Information

DTD statement for HTML5 is : <!DOCTYPE html> (doctype statement)

Every single web page has in lower case letters:
  • DTD
  • html lang
  • head = begins with <head> and ends with the </head> tag
    • title ~
      • text that will appear in the title bar of the browser window
      • <title> stuff here </title>
      • should be descriptive. If business or organization should include name of it
    • meta ~
      • describes a characteristic of a web page
        • character encoding ~ internal representation of letters, numbers and symbols such as a web page or other file that is stored on a computer and may be transmitted over the internet
        • common character encoding set is "utf-8" which is a form of Unicode
      • not used as a pair of opening and closing tags - considered self-contained or void
      • uses charset attribute to indicate the character encoding
      • example is <meta charset="utf-8">
    • references to scripts and styles
  • body section ~ contains text and elements that display on web page in browser window
    • body element
      • begins with <body> tag and ends the </body> tag
      • Will spend most of time in this section
      • what is typed here will show up on web page
Heading tags help with accessibility

Paragraph elements ~ group sentences  and sections of text together  <p> text </p>



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