Terminology, Syntax, & Introduction
Before beginning our journey to learn HTML and CSS it is important to understand the differences between the two languages, their syntax, and some common terminology. As an overview, HTML is a hyper text markup language created to give content structure and meaning. CSS, also known as cascading style sheets, is a presentation language created to give content […]
Coding Practices & Additional Resources
There are a lot of different elements, attributes, properties, values, and so forth to learn in order to write HTML and CSS. Every lesson up until this point has had the primary objective of communicating these different parts of HTML and CSS, in hopes of helping teach the core fundamentals. This lesson takes a step […]
The Display property
display is CSS’s most important property for controlling layout. Every element has a default display value depending on what type of element it is. The default for most elements is usually block or inline. A block element is often called a block-level element. An inline element is always just called an inline element. block <div> […]
No Layout
Having no layout whatsover is almost ok if all you want is one big column of content. However, if a user makes the browser window really wide, it gets kind of annoying to read: after each line your eyes have a long distance to travel right-to-left to the next line. Try resizing your browser to […]
Performance & Organization
Having the ability to write HTML and CSS with a solid understanding is a great expertise to have. As a website’s code base and traffic grows, a new skill set comes into play, one that is extremely important to both development time and user experience. Knowing the fundamentals of website performance and organization can go a long way. The […]
HTML5 Introduction
HTML5 is The New HTML Standard HTML5 New Elements New Attributes Full CSS3 Support Video and Audio 2D/3D Graphics Local Storage Local SQL Database Web Applications Examples in Each Chapter With our HTML editor, you can edit the HTML, and click on a button to view the result. Example Your browser does not support […]