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Reading notes for Codefellows Coding

Code 201 Reading Notes

Author: Irwin Ayala

Readings Overview:

HTML describes the structure of webpages. As seen before, html uses elements to describe such structure. We are currently using html 5.

They describe whatever is between the opening and closing tags. Attributes tells us about the elements. `

Paragraph in English

` Above, the atribute name is "lang" and "en-us" is the attribute value. This is a way I can use attributes to display certain things to certain people while maintaining only one website. *You can create a website by only using a text-editor and starting with the appropriate brackets.* `!DOCTYPE html>` Every html element can carry the id attribute. It is used to uniquely identify that element from other elements on the page. Its value should start with a letter or an underscore. I have to make sure every element is unique. I can edit these elements in CSS to format them however I want. The class elements are pretty much like the class attributes. This is used when I want to use an attribute more than once. For example: `

Inline elements appear in the same line as neighbouring elements. Some examples are: ```, , , and ``` With the

element, I can group a set of elements together in one block-level box. For example, it can contain all of the elements for the header or it could contain comments from visitors. `` is the inline equivalent to `
`. The `