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4. Structural HTML Elements

Mark J. Collins

(1)Chesterfield, Virginia, USA

I briefly introduced the basic HTML syntax in Chapter 1 and then explained the information inside the head element. There is no displayable content in the head element; the data there is intended for applications to use such as browsers, screen readers, or search engines. Now we turn our attention to the body element; this is where the content goes.

Content Categories

There are over 100 elements defined in HTML5. I’ve explained a few of them in Chapter 1 and over the next 5 chapters I’ll demonstrate the remaining ones. Elements are organized into content categories ...

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