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W06 // HTML BASICS AND STRUCTURE

SEP 23 · Ch 3 Sec 1-4 + Berners-Lee · DUE: First HTML page pushed to repo

This week's deckPPTX

// RUN OF SHOW (8:45-10:15)
8:45

Stand-up: last week's deliverable graded, questions answered

9:00

This week's presentation

9:20

At the keyboard: guided type-along

9:45

Build time: assignment or project work

10:10

Close: commit, push, and preview next week's reading

// THE POINT THIS WEEK
Tags, elements, nesting. The document skeleton. Common tags.
// TALKING POINTS
HTML marks meaning
  • A tag labels what content is, not how it looks
  • An element is the opening tag, the content, and the closing tag
  • Nesting must be clean: close the inner thing before the outer thing
The skeleton
  • doctype, html, head, body: every page ever, same bones
  • head describes the page; body is the page
  • Type the skeleton until your fingers know it without you
// LINKS