What We Write and What We See
HTML tags normally come in pairs like <p> and </p>. The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag. The DOCTYPE at the very top of the first picture defines the document type to be HTML. The purpose of the web browser is to read HTML documents and display them in a language that we can understand. The <!DOCTYPE> declaration helps the browser to display a web page correctly as there are many different types of documents on the web. Below is a visualization of a typical page structure that the browser usually has to read:
After reading such an HTML document, the browser will then convert it to look like this:
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ShanHarvey
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Samantha thankyou for sharing this info. HTML was a slight fuzz it makes a bit more since now.
Harrysastar2
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Hi Samantha, as you mention in your training, which will help people think seriously about HTML, it gives much more flexibility in developing their sites rather than relying on WYSIWIG.
Apart from being able to change fonts, font sizes, color, etc, without having to use a plugin, you can change line height, margins, padding, and headings, among others. Once the HTML basics have been mastered it's also worth learning some CSS basics, as this will give conformity to the posts and pages throughout the site without the need to keep inserting HTML coding, but that's another story.
Apart from being able to change fonts, font sizes, color, etc, without having to use a plugin, you can change line height, margins, padding, and headings, among others. Once the HTML basics have been mastered it's also worth learning some CSS basics, as this will give conformity to the posts and pages throughout the site without the need to keep inserting HTML coding, but that's another story.
