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HTML5 Foundations
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part 1
Creating Web Pages with HTML5
chapter one Getting Started with HTML5
chapter two Structuring a Web Page
chapter three Creating the Page Templates
chapter four Creating the Web Pages
chapter one
Getting Started with HTML5
SO YOU’RE EAGER to start building a website? By the end of this chapter, you will have done just that!
You start by getting your computer primed for building websites. That means you’re going to install a text editor and a lot of web browsers. I take you on a brief tour through some of the most popular text editors, web browsers, and developer tools so you can decide which ones you want to use.
Once you have your computer set up for building websites, you’ll learn about HTML elements and attributes. These are the basic building blocks that make up web pages.
There are a few things that all good web developers should know. That said, toward the end of this chapter, you will learn how to validate the HTML code that you have been writing. You will also learn that your websites can sometimes behave differently depending on which browser they are being viewed in.
What is HTML?
Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML, is the basic code that makes up the foundation of every website on the World Wide Web. HTML is used for marking up text and other page content, and for defining how a web page is structured.
A web page is made up of lots of content—text, images, even videos. Each of these pieces of content is marked up using HTML syntax (a collection of words and symbols that can be understood by computer programs). HTML is also used to describe the structure of the page, defining each of the different sections it may have (such as a header, content area, and footer).
HTML is used to define the page content and how it is structured, but it is not responsible for how the page actually looks—the color, borders, and positioning of elements. That is a job for Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, which you will look at briefly later in this book. There is also one other language that is commonly used when building websites. JavaScript is a programming language that is used in conjunction with HTML and CSS to build interactive features for web pages. Later in this book you will be using JavaScript to build custom playback controls for a video.
HTML is always evolving. The latest revision of HTML is HTML5, the subject of this book. The official specification for HTML5 outlines a large number of new features that enable web developers to create websites that are faster and smarter than those they could build using older versions of HTML. These new features include LocalStorage (wh...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Introduction
- part 1: Creating Web Pages with HTML5
- part 2: Dealing with Data
- part 3: Enhancing Web Pages with HTML5 and JavaScript
- part 4: Advanced HTML5 Technologies
- appendix a: Additional HTML Markup for Text
- appendix b: HTML Elements Index
- appendix c: Where to Go from Here
- End User License Agreement