Chapter 2: Building Web Pages with HTML5
In This Chapter
Structuring pages with HTML tags
Creating headings and paragraphs
Formatting lists
Embedding images
Saving and testing web pages
Our approach to explaining HTML coding in this chapter isn’t an attempt to provide an encyclopedic definition for every HTML element nor every tag attribute (every bit of syntax used to modify how an element works). Doing that would fill this entire book and would require frequent updates to keep up with changing HTML usage and with developments in browsing environments that support, or drop support, for tags.
One body that governs and disperses information about HTML usage is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which we discuss briefly in a sidebar, “Standards are defined at W3C.”
Instead, in this chapter, we focus on the concepts behind structuring an HTML page and the key tags used in most web pages.
In Chapter 1 of this minibook, we explore building the basic elements of an HTML page: the doctype ...
