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HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World
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HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World

by Estelle Weyl, Louis Lazaris, Alexis Goldstein
May 2011
Beginner
400 pages
10h 48m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 2Markup, HTML5 Style

Now that we’ve given you a bit of a history primer, along with some compelling reasons to learn HTML5 and start using it in your projects today, it’s time to introduce you to the sample site that we’ll be progressively building in this book.

After we briefly cover what we’ll be building, we’ll discuss some HTML5 syntax basics, along with some suggestions for best practice coding. We’ll follow that with some important info on cross-browser compatibility, and the basics of page structure in HTML5. Lastly, we’ll introduce some specific HTML5 elements and see how they’ll fit into our layout.

So let’s get into it!

Introducing The HTML5 Herald

For the purpose of this book, we’ve put together a sample website project that ...

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