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Basic HTML guide

Basic HTML guide

To create a web page The first thing you have to learn is HTML, which is the standard markup language for creating web pages.

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Hello there! Let's learn about some important sorts of HTML tags and when to use them, with explanations and examples.

Structure of a HTML document

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Structure of an HTML document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>It's fun to learn about HTML</h1>
</body>
</html>

Explanation:

  • The <!DOCTYPE html> is a declaration that tells the browser that this document is an HTML5 document.
  • The <html> element is the root element of an HTML page.
  • The <head> element contains all the information about the HTML page.
  • The <title> element defines the title of the HTML page and shows the title in the browser's title bar
  • The <body> element contains all the visible contents on the page.
  • The <h1> element defines the heading(large heading).

Text and Lists

Example using Text tags:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Text Tags</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Using HTML Text tags</h2>
    <hr />
    <h3>History:</h3>
    <p>The first version of <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> was written by <b>Tim Berners-Lee</b> in <b>1993</b>.</p>

    <h4>Basic Things about HTML</h4>

    <ul>
      <li>
        HTML is the <em><mark>standard markup language</mark></em> for documents designed to be displayed in a <strong>web browser</strong>.
      </li>
      <li>
        HTML can be assisted by technologies such as <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>and scripting languages such as <u>JavaScript.</u>
      </li>
      <li><del>HTML4</del> HTML5 is the latest version of HTML.</li>
    </ul>
    <h4>Some cool things about HTML5</h4>
    <ol>
      <li>Intro of audio and video:</li>
      <dd>Audio and Video tags are the two major addition to HTML5.</dd>
      <li>Progress tag:</li>
      <dd>The progress tag is used to check the progress of a task during the execution.</dd>
      <li>Color Picker:</li>
      <dd>An<q>input</q> element with a type of color provides a UI element that lets the user specifies a color.
      </dd>
      <li>Refresh the browser:</li>
      <dd>Refresh the browser with a meta tag.</dd>
    </ol>
  </body>
</html>

This is what the above code looks like- texttags.png

Tags to use for Texts

Tag Description
<h1>-<h6> Text headings in 6 different size(big to small)
<p> Creates paragraph
<br> Creates a Line break
<hr> Creates a Horizontal line
<b> Indicates a bold text
<strong> Indicates a Important text
<i> Indicates a Italic text
<em> Indicates a Emphasized text
<mark> Indicates a Marked text
<small> Indicates a Smaller text
<del> Indicates a Deleted text
<ins> Indicates a Inserted text
<sub> Indicates a Subscript text
<sup> Indicates a Superscript text
&nbsp; Creates Space
&lt; , gt; less and greater than symbols
<abbr> Defines an abbreviation
<q> Defines a short quotation
<blockquote> Defines a long quotation

Tags to use for lists

Tag Description
<ul> Defines an unorderd list
<ol> Defines an orderd list
<li> Defines a list item (used in <ol> and <ul> elements)
<dl> Defines a description list
<dt> To add a term to <dl> element
<dd> To add a description of the term to <dl> element

Create tables

Example for HTML table

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<style>
table, th, td {
  border:1px solid black;
}
</style>
<body>

<h2>A basic HTML table</h2>

<table style="width:100%">
  <tr>
    <th>Movie Name</th>
    <th>Release Year</th>

  </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Zootopia</td>
    <td>2015</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Inside Out</td>
    <td>2016</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
</td>
    <td>2009</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

This is what the above code looks like-

table.png

Tags to use for Tables

Tag Description
<table> Creates a Table
<tr> Defines a row in a table
<th> Defines a header cell in a table
<td> Defines a cell in a table
<caption> Adds a caption to the table
<colgroup> To create one or more columns in a table
<col> To create properties for one or more columns in a table
<thead> Creates a table header that can style all header cells
<tbody> Creates a table body that can style all data cells
<tfoot> Creates a table footer that can style all footer cells 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="icon" href="images/html.png" type="image/x-icon" />
    <style>
      * {
        box-sizing: border-box;
      }

      .column {
        float: left;
        width: 33.33%;
        padding: 5px;
      }

      /* Clearfix (clear floats) */
      .row::after {
        content: "";
        clear: both;
        display: table;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Images and links in HTML</h2>
    <div class="row">
      <div class="column">
        <figure>
          <figcaption><h3>Inserting images from sub-folder:</h3></figcaption>
          <img src="images/oned.jpg" alt="OneD tour image" width="120%" />
        </figure>
      </div>

      <div class="column">
        <figure>
          <figcaption>
            <h3>Inserting images from Web using link:</h3>
          </figcaption>
          <img
            src="https://www.thedigitalfix.com/wp-content/sites/thedigitalfix/2022/08/luck-movie.jpg"
            alt="luck movie"
            width="120%"
          />
        </figure>
      </div>
      <div class="column">
        <figure>
          <figcaption>
            <h3>Inserting animation gif from sub-folder:</h3>
          </figcaption>
          <img src="images/hp.gif" alt="Harry Potter" width="120%" /><br />
        </figure>
      </div>
    </div>
    <h3>
      Inserting a web site's link
      <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">Html Wikipedia</a>
    </h3>

    <h3>
      To download a image
      <a href="images/manplane.jpg" download>Some cool wallpaper</a>
    </h3>
  </body>
</html>

This is what the above code looks like- imagetag.png

Tag Description
<img> To insert an image in the web page
<src> It is used to specify the path to the image
<alt> It provides an alternate text for the image if that image is not able to view
<width>   <height> These are used to specify the width and height of the image
<a href> It is used to define a hyperlink
<figure> It is used to specify self-contained content, like illustrations, diagrams, photos, code listings, etc.
<figcaption> To add caption for <figure> element

Forms and Inputs

Example for HTML form:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <h2>HTML Forms</h2>

    <fieldset style="background: #f6f8ff; border: 2px solid #4238ca">
      <legend>Registration Form</legend>

      <input
        type="text"
        placeholder="First name"
        name="firstname"
      /><br /><br />
      <input type="text" placeholder="Last name" name="lastname" /><br /><br />
      <input type="text" placeholder="Email" name="email" /><br />

      <select name="gender">
        <option value="">-- Select Gender --</option>
        <option value="male">Male</option>
        <option value="female">Female</option>
        <option value="other">Other</option></select
      ><br />

      <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
    </fieldset>
  </body>
</html>

This is what the above code looks like-

form.png

Tags to use for forms

Tag Description
<form> Defines an HTML form
<input> Creates input field to enter data
<label> To represent a caption for the input
<select> Defines a drop down list
<textarea> Defines a input field with given number of lines
<button> Creates a clickable button
<option> Creates an option to select
<fieldset> To group related elements in a box
<legend> Defines a caption for the <fieldset> element
<outgroup> Used to group related options in the <select> element into Categories
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