November 2012
Beginner
416 pages
13h 22m
English
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Classic markup is the HTML you’re probably familiar with already: <div> tags that have <span> tags inside them, <p> tags that define paragraphs of text, and <a> tags that mark links to other content. But classic markup isn’t semantic markup, which is a simple concept with far-reaching effects on the World Wide Web.
Think of semantic markup as a structural diagram for your pages. You can get a lot of information about a building from its structural diagrams, and the same is true with the semantic layout of a page. You can’t ...