Web Programming with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

2.1 Introduction

In the prior chapter, you were introduced to just enough about HTML elements so you could put together a rudimentary web page. In this chapter, we’ll introduce you to additional HTML elements, so your web pages can be more expressive. In presenting the HTML elements, we make a point of using standard coding-style conventions, so your code will be acceptable to the web community as a whole.

Throughout this chapter and the rest of this book, you’ll be exposed to lots of HTML elements. If you’re like most people, learning lots of things that are all in a single category can be overwhelming. Defining subcategories can make learning easier. For example, rather than trying to memorize every animal species (an impossible task because ...