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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Paul McFedries
January 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
848 pages
18h 2m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

Structuring the Page with HTML

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting comfy with HTML

Bullet Figuring out HTML tags and attributes

Bullet Understanding the basic blueprint for all web pages

Bullet Adding text, images, and links to your page

Bullet Building bulleted and numbered lists

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

— URSUS WEHRLI

When it comes to web development, it’s no exaggeration to say that the one indispensable thing, the sine qua non for those of you who studied Latin in school, is HTML. Absolutely everything else you make as a web developer — your CSS rules, your JavaScript code, even your PHP scripts — can’t hang its hat anywhere but on some HTML. These other web development technologies don’t even make sense outside of an HTML context.

So, in a sense, this chapter is the most important for you as a web coder because all the rest of the book depends to a greater or lesser degree on the HTML know-how found in the following pages. If that sounds ...

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