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The HTML and CSS Workshop
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The HTML and CSS Workshop

by Lewis Coulson, Brett Jephson, Matt Park, Marian Zburlea, Tiffany Ford, Terry O'Brien, Adam Rosson, SudarshanReddy Kurri
November 2019
Beginner
700 pages
12h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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3. Text and Typography

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to identify the most suitable heading element for a web page; use the most common text-based HTML elements; develop common web page features such as navigation and breadcrumbs; explain the importance of semantic markup; and convert a design into semantic markup. This chapter introduces the text-based elements used for web page content. We will first take a tour through the text-based HTML elements. We will then look into the styling of these elements and finally put this into practice with some exercises to do with building common web page components.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, you may have been frustrated that our web pages only dealt with the page ...

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