When I first started learning HTML the differences between IDs and classes wasn’t very clear to me and I would mix them up often. I thought they were interchangeable, and while they do very similar things they have their differences and advantages. Here’s a refresher!
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What is the HTML head?
To learn about the HTML head, its purpose, the most important items it can contain, and what effect it can have on the HTML document.
The HTML head is the contents of the <head> element unlike the contents of the <body> element. Which are displayed on the page when loaded in a browser, the head’s content is not displayed on the page. Instead, the head’s job is to contain metadata about the document.
The <title> element is metadata that represents the title of the overall HTML document, not the document’s content. Metadata is data that describes data, and HTML has an “official way of adding metadata to a document the <meta> element. <meta charset=”utf-8”> This element specifies the document’s character encoding, the character set that the document is permitted to use. “utf=8”, is a universal character set that includes pretty much any character from any human language. This means that your web page will be able to handle displaying any language
Interneting is not hard.
Since it had been a year since I took Intro to Web Design I decided to go thru the free tutorials at Interneting is Hard.
The ‘golden rule’ of nesting
In light of the future resume assignment I wanted to review some best practices for the nesting order of HTML elements. Keeping track of where tags begin and end can be challenging, but having a clearer understanding of nesting helps.
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Diving back into HTML after a break proves to sometimes be challenging, with forgotten information or improperly used tags. However, revisiting some of the key basic information has helped me tremendously and it proves that it’s always a smart idea to revisit the basics.
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Over the past weeks, I’ve learned a lot about HTML tags, the most important is that there are a lot of tags and each tag has a specific function. I’ll share with you some unusual tags.
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What if I told you that there is more than one link tag. During HTML coding we usually use only one link tag the “a” tag.
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