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HTML

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is used to give content to a web page and instructs web browsers
on how to structure that content.

<a> Anchor Element

The <a> anchor element is used to create hyperlinks in an HTML document. The hyperlinks can point to
other webpages, files on the same server, a location on the same page, or any other URL via the
hyperlink reference attribute, href. The href determines the location the anchor element points to.

<!—Creating text links -->

<a href="http://www.codecademy.com">Visit this site</a>

<!-- Creating image links -->

<a href="http://www.codecademy.com">

<img src="logo.jpg">Click this image

</a>

<head> Head Element

The <head> element contains general information about an HTML page that isn’t displayed on the page
itself. This information is called metadata and includes things like the title of the HTML document and
links to stylesheets.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<!-- Metadata is contained in this element-->

</head>

</html>

<target> Target Attribute


The target attribute on an <a> anchor element specifies where a hyperlink should be opened. A target
value of "_blank" will tell the browser to open the hyperlink in a new tab in modern browsers, or in a
new window in older browsers or if the browser has had settings changed to open hyperlinks in a new
window.

<a href="https://www.google.com" target="_blank">This anchor element links to google and will open in
a new tab or window.</a>

Indentation

HTML code should be formatted such that the indentation level of text increases once for each level of
nesting.

It is a common convention to use two or four space per level of nesting.

<div>

<h1>Heading</h1>

<ul>

<li>Item 1</li>

<li>Item 2</li>

</ul>

</div>

Link to a Different Part of the Page #

The anchor element <a> can create hyperlinks to different parts of the same HTML document using the
href attribute to point to the desired location with # followed by the id of the element to link to.

<div>

<p id="id-of-element-to-link-to">A different part of the page!</p>

</div>

<a href="#id-of-element-to-link-to">Take me to a different part of the page</a>

<html> HTML Element

The <html> element, the root of an HTML document, should be added after the !DOCTYPE declaration.
All content/structure for an HTML document should be contained between the opening and closing
<html> tags.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<!-- I'm a comment -->

</html>

Comments

In HTML, comments can be added between an opening <!-- and closing -->. Content inside of comments
will not be rendered by browsers, and are usually used to describe a part of code or provide other
details.

Comments can span single or multiple lines.

<!-- Main site content -->

<div>Content</div>

<!--

Comments can be

multiple lines long.

-->

Whitespace

Whitespace, such as line breaks, added to an HTML document between block-level elements will
generally be ignored by the browser and are not added to increase spacing on the rendered HTML page.
Rather, whitespace is added for organization and easier reading of the HTML document itself.

<p>Test paragraph</p>

<!-- The whitespace created by this line, and above/below this line is ignored by the browser-->

<p>Another test paragraph, this will sit right under the first paragraph, no extra space between.</p>

<title> Title Element

The <title> element contains a text that defines the title of an HTML document. The title is displayed in
the browser’s title bar or tab in which the HTML page is displayed. The <title> element can only be
contained inside a document’s <head> element.
<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Title of the HTML page</title>

</head>

</html>

File Path

URL paths in HTML can be absolute paths, like a full URL, for example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Learn or a relative file path that links to a local file in the same folder or on the same server, for
example: ./style.css. Relative file paths begin with ./ followed by a path to the local file. ./ tells the
browser to look for the file path from the current folder.

<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web">The URL for this anchor element is an


absolute file path.</a>

<a href="./about.html">The URL for this anchor element is a relative file path.</a>

Document Type Declaration

The document type declaration <!DOCTYPE html> is required as the first line of an HTML document. The
doctype declaration is an instruction to the browser about what type of document to expect and which
version of HTML is being used, in this case it’s HTML5.

<!DOCTYPE html>

Element Content

The content of an HTML element is the information between the opening and closing tags of an element.

<h1>Codecademy is awesome! 🙂</h1>


<li> List Item Element

The <li> list item element create list items inside:

Ordered lists <ol>

Unordered lists <ul>


<ol>
<li>Head east on Prince St</li>
<li>Turn left on Elizabeth</li>
</ol>

<ul>
<li>Cookies</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ul>

<video> Video Element

The <video> element embeds a media player for video playback. The src attribute will contain the URL to
the video. Adding the controls attribute will display video controls in the media player.

Note: The content inside the opening and closing tag is shown as a fallback in browsers that don’t
support the element.

<video src="test-video.mp4" controls>

Video not supported

</video>

<em> Emphasis Element

The <em> element emphasizes text and browsers will usually italicize the emphasized text by default.

<p>This <em>word</em> will be emphasized in italics.</p>

<div> Div Element

The <div> element is used as a container that divides an HTML document into sections and is short for
“division”. <div> elements can contain flow content such as headings, paragraphs, links, images, etc.

<div>

<h1>A section of grouped elements</h1>

<p>Here’s some text for the section</p>

</div>

<div>

<h1>Second section of grouped elements</h1>


<p>Here’s some text</p>

</div>

<br> Line Break Element

The <br> line break element will create a line break in text and is especially useful where a division of
text is required, like in a postal address. The line break element requires only an opening tag and must
not have a closing tag.

A line break haiku.<br>

Poems are a great use case.<br>

Oh joy! A line break.

<h1>-<h6> Heading Elements

HTML can use six different levels of heading elements. The heading elements are ordered from the
highest level <h1> to the lowest level <h6>.

<h1>Breaking News</h1>

<h2>This is the 1st subheading</h2>

<h3>This is the 2nd subheading</h3>

...

<h6>This is the 5th subheading</h6>

<p> Paragraph Element

The <p> paragraph element contains and displays a block of text.

<p>This is a block of text! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.</p>

Unique ID Attributes

In HTML, specific and unique id attributes can be assigned to different elements in order to differentiate
between them.

When needed, the id value can be called upon by CSS and JavaScript to manipulate, format, and perform
specific instructions on that element and that element only. Valid id attributes should begin with a letter
and should only contain letters (a-Z), digits (0-9), hyphens (-), underscores (_), and periods (.).

<h1 id="A1">Hello World</h1>

alt Attribute

An <img> element can have alternative text via the alt attribute. The alternative text will be displayed if
an image fails to render due to an incorrect URL, if the image format is not supported by the browser, if
the image is blocked from being displayed, or if the image has not been received from the URL.
The text will be read aloud if screen reading software is used and helps support visually impaired users
by providing a text descriptor for the image content on a webpage.

<img src="path/to/image" alt="text describing image" />

<body> Body Element

The <body> element represents the content of an HTML document. Content inside <body> tags are
rendered on the web browsers.

Note: There can be only one <body> element in a document.

<body>

<h1>Learn to code with Codecademy :)</h1>

</body>

<span> Span Element

The <span> element is an inline container for text and can be used to group text for styling purposes.
However, as <span> is a generic container to separate pieces of text from a larger body of text, its use
should be avoided if a more semantic element is available.

<p><span>This text</span> may be styled differently than the surrounding text.</p>

<strong> Strong Element

The <strong> element highlights important, serious, or urgent text and browsers will normally render
this highlighted text in bold by default.

<p>This is <strong>important</strong> text!</p>

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