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The document is a cheatsheet for learning HTML elements, explaining their purposes and syntax. It covers various HTML elements such as headings, paragraphs, lists, images, and attributes, providing examples for each. The document emphasizes the structure of HTML and the importance of elements in web development.

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Fundamentals of HTML_ Learn HTML_ Elements Cheatsheet _ Codecademy

The document is a cheatsheet for learning HTML elements, explaining their purposes and syntax. It covers various HTML elements such as headings, paragraphs, lists, images, and attributes, providing examples for each. The document emphasizes the structure of HTML and the importance of elements in web development.

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Cheatsheets / Fundamentals of HTML

Learn HTML: Elements

HTML

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is used to give


content to a web page and instructs web browsers on
how to structure that content.

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: <ol>

Ordered lists <ol>


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

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

<video> Video Element

The <video> element embeds a media player for video <video src="test-video.mp4" controls>
playback. The src attribute will contain the URL to the
Video not supported
video. Adding the controls attribute will display video
controls in the media player. </video>
Note: The content inside the opening and closing tag is
shown as a fallback in browsers that don’t support the
element.

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<em> Emphasis Element

The <em> element emphasizes text and browsers will <p>This <em>word</em> will be emphasized
usually italicize the emphasized text by default.
in italics.</p>

<ol> Ordered List Element

The <ol> ordered list element creates a list of items in

👩‍🍳
<ol>
sequential order. Each list item appears numbered by

🍪
<li>Preheat oven to 325 F </li>
default.

⏰
<li>Drop cookie dough </li>
<li>Bake for 15 min </li>
</ol>

<div> Div Element

The <div> element is used as a container that divides <div>


an HTML document into sections and is short for
<h1>A section of grouped elements</h1>
“division”. <div> elements can contain flow content
such as headings, paragraphs, links, images, etc. <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>

HTML Structure

HTML is organized into a family tree structure. HTML <body>


elements can have parents, grandparents, siblings,
<div>
children, grandchildren, etc.
<h1>It's div's child and body's
grandchild</h1>
<h2>It's h1's sibling</h2>
</div>
</body>

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Closing Tag

An HTML closing tag is used to denote the end of an <body>


HTML element. The syntax for a closing tag is a left
...
angle bracket < followed by a forward slash / then
the element name and a right angle bracket to close
</body>
> .

Attribute Name and Values

HTML attributes consist of a name and a value using the <elementName name="value"></elementName>
following syntax: name="value" and can be added to
the opening tag of an HTML element to configure or
change the behavior of the element.

<br> Line Break Element

The <br> line break element will create a line break in A line break haiku.<br>
text and is especially useful where a division of text is
Poems are a great use case.<br>
required, like in a postal address. The line break
element requires only an opening tag and must not Oh joy! A line break.
have a closing tag.

<img> Image Element

HTML image <img> elements embed images in <img src="image.png">


documents. The src attribute contains the image URL
and is mandatory. <img> is an empty element meaning
it should not have a closing tag.

<h1> - <h6> Heading Elements

HTML can use six different levels of heading elements. <h1>Breaking News</h1>
The heading elements are ordered from the highest
<h2>This is the 1st subheading</h2>
level <h1> to the lowest level <h6> .
<h3>This is the 2nd subheading</h3>
...
<h6>This is the 5th subheading</h6>

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<p> Paragraph Element

The <p> paragraph element contains and displays a <p>This is a block of text! Lorem ipsum
block of text.
dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing
elit.</p>

Unique ID Attributes

In HTML, specific and unique id attributes can be <h1 id="A1">Hello World</h1>


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 ( . ).

HTML Attributes

HTML attributes are values added to the opening tag of <p id="my-paragraph" style="color:
an element to configure the element or change the
green;">Here’s some text for a paragraph
element’s default behavior. In the provided example, we
are giving the <p> (paragraph) element a unique that is being altered by HTML
identifier using the id attribute and changing the attributes</p>
color of the default text using the style attribute.

<ul> Unordered List Element

The <ul> unordered list element is used to create a

🎸
<ul>
list of items in no particular order. Each individual list

📚
<li>Play more music </li>
item will have a bullet point by default.
<li>Read more books </li>
</ul>

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alt Attribute

An <img> element can have alternative text via the <img src="path/to/image" alt="text
alt attribute. The alternative text will be displayed if
describing image" />
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.

<body> Body Element

The <body> element represents the content of an <body>


HTML document. Content inside <body> tags are
<h1>Learn to code with Codecademy :)
rendered on the web browsers.
Note: There can be only one <body> element in a </h1>
document. </body>

<span> Span Element

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

<strong> Strong Element

The <strong> element highlights important, serious, or <p>This is <strong>important</strong>


urgent text and browsers will normally render this
text!</p>
highlighted text in bold by default.

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HTML Element

An HTML element is a piece of content in an HTML <p>Hello World!</p>


document and uses the following syntax: opening tag +
content + closing tag. In the code provided:

<p> is the opening tag.

Hello World! is the content.

</p> is the closing tag.

HTML Tag

The syntax for a single HTML tag is an opening angle <div>


bracket < followed by the element name and a closing
angle bracket > . Here is an example of an opening
<div> tag.

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