Summary #1
September 6th, 2024
Topic 1: In design, HTML is considered the standard markup language when creating Web pages.
The acronym HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and consists of a series of elements. HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content that you want. Some of these elements label pieces of content such as which is the heading, paragraph, link, etc. For example, the <html> element is considered the root element of a traditional HTML page. Another example is that </h2><p> defines a paragraph. Some of these HTML elements do not have any content and empty elements do not require an end tag. There have been many versions of HTML since the early days of the internet.
Topic 2: All HTML documents must begin with a document-type declaration.
The beginning of the HTML document itself starts with <html> and ends with </html> .The part of the visible HTML document is the part between <body> and </body>. The headings defined by HTML are between <h1> and <h6> tags. The most important heading is defined by <h1> and the least important heading is defined by <h6>. For HTML images, they are defined by the <img> tag. Attributes are used to provide additional information regarding HTML elements.
Topic 3: The makeup of an HTML element is defined by a starting tag, content, and an end tag.
The HTML element is considered everything that is in the starting tag to the end tag. A term related to HTML elements is “nested”. All HTML documents consist of nested HTML elements and can contain other elements. It is important to never skip the end tag even though some elements will display correctly, even if the end tag is forgotten. It is important to consider the end tags, as errors and unexpected results can occur. Empty elements are HTML elements that do not have any content. It is important to know that HTML tags are not case-sensitive and the uppercase and lowercase mean the same thing. An example of this is <P> and <p> are considered the same thing.