HTML Fundamentals

There is so much more to HTML and CSS, these are some basics.

• DOCTYPE: The declaration defines the document type and version of HTML used in a webpage.
• HTML: The root element of an HTML page.
• Head: Contains meta-information about the HTML document, such as the title, character set, and linked stylesheets.
• Title: Sets the title of the HTML document, appearing in the browser's title bar or tab.
• Base: Specifies a default URL and target for all links on a page.
• Link: Defines the relationship between the current document and an external resource, such as a stylesheet.
• Style: Contains CSS rules for styling the HTML document.
• Body: Contains the content of the HTML document, such as text, images, links, etc.
• Heading (H1-H6): Headings of decreasing importance, with H1 being the most important.
• Paragraph (P): Defines a paragraph of text.
• Anchor (A): Creates hyperlinks; used with the href attribute to specify the URL of the linked resource.
• Image (IMG): Embeds images in an HTML document; includes the src attribute, pointing to the image file.
• Unordered List (UL): Defines an unordered list; list items are specified with the LI tag.
• Ordered List (OL): Defines an ordered list; list items are specified with the LI tag.
• List Item (LI): Defines a list item; used within UL (unordered list) or OL (ordered list).
• Div (DIV): Container used to group other HTML elements and apply styles or scripts.
• Span (SPAN): Inline container used to apply styles to a specific portion of text or a group of inline elements.
• CSS: Stands for Cascading Style Sheets; used to style the layout and presentation of HTML documents.
• Class Selector (.class): Selects elements with a specific class attribute. ID Selector (#id): Selects a single element with a specific id attribute.
• Inline CSS: Style applied directly to an HTML element using the style attribute. External CSS: Style defined in a separate CSS file and linked to the HTML document.