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W3C Rules!
Well ain’t that the truth! W3C and its community of support will always (IMO) lead the charge in modernization and standardization of the web. Myself and countless others will rely on these standards at some point and in some form. Don’t believe me? Scared? Go to school…
Let’s start with the most basic example just to get an idea of HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>The break down:
- <!DOCTYPE html>
- First line of defense!
- Definition of the document type to the browser
- Defines all default rendering behavior
- <html> … </html>
- Opening/closing tags for the entire HTML document
- Generally contains child elements head and body
- <head> … </head>
- Opening/closing tags for the head element in the HTML doc
- Defines and contains initial meta tags, styles, scripts, etc.
- May also contain the title element/tag
- <title> … <title>
- Self explanatory, moving on…
- Psst! This is the HTML doc’s title
- <body> … <body>
- Can contain most elements as allowed in the head tag
- Generally its a best practice to append scripts (if any) just before the HTML body close..
- Helps with browser processing and some other cool stuff
- HTML body elements
- Keep on reading about HTML Elements on W3Schools
- Practice make perfect! Try an HTML Quiz… If you dare.