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Preparing For HTML
I. Overview
By starting the document with a document type declaration.
This declaration is an instruction, and it must be the first line of code in your HTML document.
<!DOCTYPE html>.
The type of document and the HTML version to expect.
By adding opening and closing <html> tags after declaration of <!DOCTYPE html>.
Without these tags, it’s possible that browsers could incorrectly interpret your HTML code.
The head element or <head>.
Metadata is information about the page that isn’t displayed directly on the web page.
Title element or <title>.
By adding anchor elements or <a> and including the text of the link in between the opening and closing tags.
An href or hyperlink reference.
It is used to link to a path or the address where a file is located.
Include a target attributes inside an anchor element and set the value of _blank or in short target=”_blank”.
In the root directory, or the main folder where all the files for the project are stored.
project-folder/
|—— about.html
|—— contact.html
|—— index.html
<a href=”./contact.html”>Contact</a>
A relative path is a filename that shows the path to a local file.
By giving the target an id.
An id should be descriptive to make it easier to remember the purpose of a link.
The target link is a string containing the #character and the target element’s id.
Whitespace and indentation.
- They help you (and others) understand your code if you decide to come back and review it at a much later date.
- They allow you to experiment with new code, without having to delete old code.