Chapter 2: Building Web Pages with HTML5

In This Chapter

check.png Structuring pages with HTML tags

check.png Creating headings and paragraphs

check.png Formatting lists

check.png Embedding images

check.png Saving and testing web pages

Our approach to explaining HTML coding in this chapter isn’t an attempt to provide an encyclopedic definition for every HTML element nor every tag attribute (every bit of syntax used to modify how an element works). Doing that would fill this entire book and would require frequent updates to keep up with changing HTML usage and with developments in browsing environments that support, or drop support, for tags.

One body that governs and disperses information about HTML usage is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which we discuss briefly in a sidebar, “Standards are defined at W3C.”

Instead, in this chapter, we focus on the concepts behind structuring an HTML page and the key tags used in most web pages.

In Chapter 1 of this minibook, we explore building the basic elements of an HTML page: the doctype ...

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