7 Common HTML Mistakes You Should Avoid

7 Common HTML Mistakes
You Should Avoid
Designing a good-looking, functional, interactive website is anyone's
dream. However, if you want to choose your carrier as a web
designer or web developer, you have to begin from somewhere. And
if you are a beginner, mistakes are good for you to become an
expert.

The following is a list of common HTML mark up mistakes. Whether
you are a beginner, web designer, or a programmer etc, try to avoid
these mistakes.
1. Don’t Use Line Breaks To Show A List
If you want to show a list of things in bulleted or numbered order,
never use line breaks. Use unordered list or ordered list
tags for this purpose. Like this.
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Linus Torvalds
2. Structure the Page Correctly With Proper Tags
A can work the same as a or a tag but it is
important to understand which one is to be used where. These are
just examples. There are many others like the tag and the
tag. Once you know the difference you'll know which one should be
used at a particular part of the page.

3. Avoid Inline Styles
You have probably heard this lot of times before. The
straightforward mean of semantic HTML and CSS is to split
document structure and styling, so there is no reason to place
styling directly in HTML document. For example
HTML =>
Right
CSS =>
h2 .red{color: red;}
4. Avoid Using Deprecated Elements
Most of the web designer and web developer use some old HTML
tags and attributes today, which have been declared deprecated by
W3C consortium. Although modern browsers still support them,
they might not in the future.
5. Never use or
According to W3C consortium, these tags have never been included
in the official HTML standard. Along with this, their use is
considered unprofessional and unimpressive. If you need to draw
attention to a certain part of your document, use an alternative
approach in a less offensive manner.

6. Comments Are an Absolute Must
Trust me it can be so difficult for you if you mention what a
particular element does using comments. It makes your code
look unprofessional. Otherwise, you may have to sit on your system
to go through a thousand lines of code and even then you might not
spot the problem. Always be professional.
7. Forget To Use Alt Attribute for Image Tags
The ALT attribute is considered as required one for IMG tags, it
describes the context of the image. It assist web crawler to index
your contents better. If the images are just for show, use an empty
ALT attribute like alt=””.
These are some common, easily avoidable mistakes. Review these
carefully and be sure to validate your page for proper HTML.
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