1. Investigating the Scene of the Crime

RUSHING INTO A CRIME SCENE TOO HASTILY CAN cause us to miss picking up important pieces of evidence, so we’ll start your apprenticeship by going over HTML best practices: document structure, good semantics, and tag structure. From there, we’ll move on to CSS, including rule structure, getting the styles into your documents, and commenting.

WE’LL ALSO TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE CLUES POSED by inheritance, the cascade, and the vast array of selectors you can employ to target the desired elements in your HTML document.

HTML Document Structure

As you know, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the basis for all things web. And you also probably know that HTML has different version numbers, and that there is ...

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