Elements and Structure
Learn about HTML elements and structure, the building blocks of websites.
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<em> Emphasis Element
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Element Content
<li> List Item Element
<video> Video Element
<ol> Ordered List Element
<div> Div Element
HTML Structure
<em> Emphasis Element
<em> Emphasis Element
<p>This <em>word</em> will be emphasized in italics.</p>The <em> emphasis element emphasizes text and browsers will usually italicize the emphasized text by default.
- 1Welcome to the world of code! Last year, millions of learners from our community started with HTML. Why? HTML is the skeleton of all web pages. It’s often the first language learned by developers, …
- 2HTML is composed of elements. These elements structure the webpage and define its content. Let’s take a look at how they’re written. The diagram to the right displays an HTML paragraph element. …
- 4HTML is organized as a collection of family tree relationships. As you saw in the last exercise, we placed tags within tags. When an element is contained inside another element, it is consider…
- 7If we want to expand an element’s tag, we can do so using an attribute. Attributes are content added to the opening tag of an element and can be used in several different ways, from providing inf…
- 8If you want to display text in HTML, you can use a paragraph or span: - Paragraphs ( ) contain a block of plain text. - contains short pieces of text or other HTML. They are used to separat…
- 9You can also style text using HTML tags. The tag emphasizes text, while the tag highlights important text. Later, when you begin to style websites, you will decide how you want browsers to di…
- 10The spacing between code in an HTML file doesn’t affect the positioning of elements in the browser. If you are interested in modifying the spacing in the browser, you can use HTML’s line break el…
- 11In addition to organizing text in paragraph form, you can also display content in an easy-to-read list. In HTML, you can use an unordered list tag ( ) to create a list of items in no particular …
- 12Ordered lists ( ) are like unordered lists, except that each list item is numbered. They are useful when you need to list different steps in a process or rank items for first to last. You can …
- 14Part of being an exceptional web developer is making your site accessible to users of all backgrounds. In order to make the Web more inclusive, we need to consider what happens when assistive techn…
- 1Now that we’ve learned about some of the most common HTML elements, it’s time to learn how to set up an HTML file. HTML files require certain elements to set up the document properly. We can let …
- 2The declaration provides the browser with two pieces of information (the type of document and the HTML version to expect), but it doesn’t actually add any HTML structure or content. To create …
- 4What kind of metadata about the web page can the element contain? If you navigate to the Codecademy catalog and look at the top of your browser, you’ll notice the words Full Catalog Courses …
- 5Good work! Unfortunately, the browser panel used by the Codecademy environment does not have a title bar, so the “Brown Bear” title you wrote in the previous exercise will not be displayed. Outside…
- 6One of the powerful aspects of HTML (and the Internet), is the ability to link to other web pages. You can add links to a web page by adding an anchor element and including the text of the …
- 7Have you ever clicked on a link and observed the resulting web page open in a new browser window? If so, you can thank the element’s target attribute. The target attribute specifies how a link s…
- 8Thus far you have learned how to link to external web pages. Many sites also link to internal web pages like Home, About, and Contact. Before we learn how to link between internal pages, let’s est…
- 9You’ve probably visited websites where not all links were made up of text. Maybe the links you clicked on were images or some other form of content. So far, we’ve added links that were made up of …
- 10At this point, we have all the content we want on our page. Since we have so much content, it doesn’t all fit on the screen. How do we make it easier for a user to jump to different portions of our…
- 11The rest of this lesson will focus on some tools developers use to make code easier to interpret. As the code in an HTML file grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of how elements…
- 12The second tool web developers use to make the structure of code easier to read is indentation. The spaces are inserted using the space and tab bars on your keyboard. The World Wide Web C…
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