HTML, XHTML & CSS

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Part I: Getting to Know (X)HTML and CSS
Listing 2-1 (continued)
Along the way, we will examine the principles and best practices
that govern Web page design and construction, and help you
understand how to make your content accessible to the broadest
possible audience.
By the time you work your way through this book’s contents, you
should feel comfortable with creating and managing your own Web
site. You should also understand what it takes to identify your
audience, communicate with that audience, and keep your content
fresh and interesting to keep them coming back for more.
Sincerely,
Jeff Noble and Ed Tittel, your humble authors
The HTML markup includes a collection of markup elements and attributes
that describe the letter’s contents:
✓ The element defines the document as an HTML document.
✓ The element creates a header section for the document.
✓ The element defines a document title that is displayed in the
browser’s title bar.
The element is inside the element.
✓ The element holds the text that appears in the browser window.
The markup that follows the style=” “ attribute inside the
element is CSS, otherwise known as the Cascading Style Sheet markup
language. CSS says we want white text on a teal background, where the
text is larger than usual, and in a sans-serif font. (You find out all about
styles and attributes in Chapters 9 and 10.)
✓ The element marks the Hello World text as a first-level heading.
✓ The elements identify each paragraph of the document.
Don’t worry about the ins and outs of how the HTML elements work. They
are covered in detail in Chapters 4 and 5. Also, a Web page includes graphics,
scripts, and other elements that we deliberately avoid in this contrived and
simple example to keep things, well, simple! We cover all these things in profuse
detail later in the book, though.