Sunday, 15 December 2013
INTRODUCTION TO BASIC HTML
Welcome to Chapter 1 : intro to HTML
Part 1- HTML Structure Presentation
Part 2- Layout of an HTML file
Part 3- Working with Tables & List
Part 4- HTML Forms & Input
Part 5- Styling & Inline CSS
Part 1- Introduction to HTML
What is HTML?
Where to type these HTML Codings??
Normally we can use any text editor to Execute the HTML tags and to Create the pages .. i prefer to use the Notepad ++ .
Click Here to Download Text Editor Software
HTML Uses Tag Elements :
Content is wrapped in an open and closing tag ,
HTML Document Layout
Block Elements
Block Level Elements:
Creates a large block of content
new lines before and after element
Consumes the whole width available
Examples
Inline Elements
Inline Level Elements :
Examples
Element Attributes
Example :
"href" is the name of the attribute of the anchor <a> (link) tag
"http://vidyarthiplus.com/vp" is the value of the "href" attribute of the <a> (link) tag
other common attributes :
Style - styling can be done via "style" attribute
Id & class - specifies identification to an element
title- adds extra info about the element. Also Displayed in a toottip in some browser
Sample Output :
Welcome to Chapter 1 : intro to HTML
Part 1- HTML Structure Presentation
Part 2- Layout of an HTML file
Part 3- Working with Tables & List
Part 4- HTML Forms & Input
Part 5- Styling & Inline CSS
Part 1- Introduction to HTML
What is HTML?
- HTML is a Hypertext Markup Language
- HTML is not a Programming language
- Language of the Browser
- The World Wide Web Consortium Creates the Standards of HTML
- CSS is used to style HTML pages
Where to type these HTML Codings??
Normally we can use any text editor to Execute the HTML tags and to Create the pages .. i prefer to use the Notepad ++ .
Click Here to Download Text Editor Software
HTML Uses Tag Elements :
Code:
<p>this is a Paragraph</p> - paragraph
<h1>this is a heading</h1> - heading
<i></i> - Italic
<b></b> - BoldContent is wrapped in an open and closing tag ,
Code:
<p>this is a Paragraph</p>
<h1>this is a heading</h1>HTML Document Layout
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> //open tag of HTML
<head> //open tag of Head
<title>Page Title</title> //open and close tag of title
</head> //close tag of Head
<body> //open tag of body
<p>Hi Welcome to vidyarthiplus !! </p> //open and close tag of Paragraph
</body> //close tag of Body
</html> //close tag of HTMLBlock Elements
Block Level Elements:
Creates a large block of content
new lines before and after element
Consumes the whole width available
Examples
Code:
<h1> - <h6> Headings , ( h1 with Maximum font size and so on)
<form> - forms
<div> - div tagsInline Elements
Inline Level Elements :
- No new Lines
- Can be placed aside other elements
- Cannot define width
Examples
Code:
<a> - links (known as anchor tag)
<strong> & <b> - both indicates the Size of the font
<input/>- input
<span> - Span tagsElement Attributes
- Most of the attributes are Name-Value pairs Separated with an "="
- Attributes provide additional information about an element
- Attributes are always specified in the Start tag
Example :
"href" is the name of the attribute of the anchor <a> (link) tag
Code:
<a href="www.vidyarthiplus.com/vp">Vidyarthiplus</a>"http://vidyarthiplus.com/vp" is the value of the "href" attribute of the <a> (link) tag
other common attributes :
Style - styling can be done via "style" attribute
Code:
<h1 style="color:red"> This Heading will be red</h1>Id & class - specifies identification to an element
Code:
<p id="mypara">This paragraph has an ID</p>title- adds extra info about the element. Also Displayed in a toottip in some browser
Code:
<a href="www.vidyarthiplus.com/vp" title="click here to go V+">
This paragraph has an id</a>Sample Output :
