August 2006
Beginner to intermediate
496 pages
17h 36m
English
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Writing HTML for CSS
If you're new to Web design, you may need some helpful hints to guide your forays into HTML (and to steer clear of well-intentioned, but out-of-date HTML techniques). And if you've been building Web pages for a while, then you may have picked up a few bad HTML-writing habits that you're better off forgetting. The rest of this chapter introduces you to some HTML writing habits that will make your mother proud—and help you get the most out of CSS.
Think Structure
HTML adds meaning to text by logically dividing it and identifying the role that text plays on the page: for example, the <h1> tag's the most important introduction to a page's content. Other headers let you divide up the content into other, less important, but related sections. Just like the book you're holding, for example, a Web page should have a logical structure. Each chapter in this book has a title (think <h1>); and several sections (think <h2>), which in turn contain smaller subsections. Imagine how much harder it would be to read these pages if every word just ran together as one long paragraph.
Note
For a good resource on HTML/ XHTML check out HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, or visit http://www.w3schools.com for online HTML and XHTML tutorials. For a quick list of all available HTML and XHTML tags, visit http://www.w3schools.com/tags/.
HTML provides many other tags besides headers for marking up (that's the M in HTML) content to identify its role ...
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