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Introduction To HTML - Elements and Structure Cheatsheet - Codecademy

The document provides a summary of common HTML elements and their usage, including headings, paragraphs, lists, images, links, and more. It explains that HTML uses tags to define elements and structure content on a webpage. Elements can have opening and closing tags that contain content. Attributes are also described which provide additional information about elements when included in opening tags.

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Introduction To HTML - Elements and Structure Cheatsheet - Codecademy

The document provides a summary of common HTML elements and their usage, including headings, paragraphs, lists, images, links, and more. It explains that HTML uses tags to define elements and structure content on a webpage. Elements can have opening and closing tags that contain content. Attributes are also described which provide additional information about elements when included in opening tags.

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Cheatsheets / Introduction to HTML

Elements and Structure


TOPICS

HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is used to give content to a web page and
instructs web browsers on how to structure that content.
A markup language is a computer annotation system for defining the structure and
presentation of text.

Element Content
The content of an HTML element is the information between the opening and closing
tags of an element.

<h1>Codecademy is awesome! 🙂</h1>

List Item Element <li>


The <li> list item element create list items inside:

● Ordered lists <ol>


● Unordered lists <ul>

<ol>
<li>Head east on Prince St</li>
<li>Turn left on Elizabeth</li>
</ol>

<ul>
<li>Cookies</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ul>

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Video Element <video>


The <video> element embeds a media player for video playback. The src attribute will
contain the URL to the video. Adding the controls attribute will display video controls
in the media player.
Note: The content inside the opening and closing tag is shown as a fallback in
browsers that don’t support the element.

<video src="test-video.mp4" controls>


Video not supported
</video>

Emphasis Element <em>


The <em> emphasis element emphasizes text and browsers will usually italicize the
emphasized text by default.

<p>This <em>word</em> will be emphasized in italics.</p>

Ordered List Element <ol>


The <ol> ordered list element creates a list of items in sequential order. Each list item
appears numbered by default.

<ol>
<li>Preheat oven to 325 F </li>
<li>Drop cookie dough 🍪</li>
<li>Bake for 15 min ⏰</li>
</ol>

Div Element <div>


The <div> element is used as a container that divides an HTML document into sections
and is short for “division”. <div> elements can contain flow content such as headings,
paragraphs, links, images, etc.

<div>
<h1>A section of grouped elements</h1>
<p>Here’s some text for the section</p>

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</div>
<div>
<h1>Second section of grouped elements</h1>
<p>Here’s some text</p>
</div>

HTML Structure
HTML is organized into a family tree structure. HTML elements can have parents,
grandparents, siblings, children, grandchildren, etc.

<body>
<div>
<h1>It's div's child and body's grandchild</h1>
<h2>It's h1's sibling</h2>
</div>
</body>

Closing Tag
An HTML closing tag is used to denote the end of an HTML element. The syntax for a
closing tag is a left angle bracket < followed by a forward slash / then the element
name and a right angle bracket to close > .

<body>
...
</body>

Attribute Name and Values


HTML attributes consist of a name and a value using the following syntax:
name="value" and can be added to the opening tag of an HTML element to configure or
change the behavior of the element.

<elementName name="value"></elementName>

Line Break Element <br>


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The <br> line break element will create a line break in text and is especially useful
where a division of text is required, like in a postal address. The line break element
requires only an opening tag and must not have a closing tag.

A line break haiku.<br>


Poems are a great use case.<br>
Oh joy! A line break.

Image Element <img>


HTML image <img> elements embed images in documents. The src attribute contains
the image URL and is mandatory. <img> is an empty element meaning it should not
have a closing tag.

<img src="image.png">

Heading Elements <h1>-<h6>


HTML can use six different levels of heading elements. The heading elements are
ordered from the highest level <h1> to the lowest level <h6> .

<h1>Breaking News</h1>
<h2>This is the 1st subheading</h2>
<h3>This is the 2nd subheading</h3>
...
<h6>This is the 5th subheading</h6>

Paragraph Element <p>


The <p> paragraph element contains and displays a block of text.

<p>This is a block of text! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing
elit.</p>

Unique ID Attributes
In HTML, specific and unique id attributes can be assigned to different elements in
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order to differentiate between them.


When needed, the id value can be called upon by CSS and JavaScript to manipulate,
format, and perform specific instructions on that element and that element only. Valid
id attributes should begin with a letter and should only contain letters ( a-Z ), digits
( 0-9 ), hyphens ( - ), underscores ( _ ), and periods ( . ).

<h1 id="A1">Hello World</h1>

HTML Attributes
HTML attributes are values added to the opening tag of an element to configure the
element or change the element’s default behavior. In the provided example, we are
giving the <p> (paragraph) element a unique identifier using the id attribute and
changing the color of the default text using the style attribute.

<p id="my-paragraph" style="color: green;">Here’s some text for a paragraph that is


being altered by HTML attributes</p>

Unordered List Element <ul>


The <ul> unordered list element is used to create a list of items in no particular order.
Each individual list item will have a bullet point by default.

<ul>
<li>Play more music 🎸</li>
<li>Read more books 📚</li>
</ul>

Attribute alt
An <img> element can have alternative text via the alt attribute. The alternative text
will be displayed if an image fails to render due to an incorrect URL, if the image format
is not supported by the browser, if the image is blocked from being displayed, or if the
image has not been received from the URL.
The text will be read aloud if screen reading software is used and helps support visually
impaired users by providing a text descriptor for the image content on a webpage.

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<img src="path/to/image" alt="text describing image" />

Body Element <body>


The <body> element represents the content of an HTML document. Content inside
<body> tags are rendered on the web browsers.
Note: There can be only one <body> element in a document.

<body>
<h1>Learn to code with Codecademy :)</h1>
</body>

Span Element <span>


The <span> element is an inline container for text and can be used to group text for
styling purposes. However, as <span> is a generic container to separate pieces of text
from a larger body of text, its use should be avoided if a more semantic element is
available.

<p><span>This text</span> may be styled differently than the surrounding text.</p>

Strong Element <strong>


The <strong> element highlights important, serious, or urgent text and browsers will
normally render this highlighted text in bold by default.

<p>This is <strong>important</strong> text!</p>

HTML Element
An HTML element is a piece of content in an HTML document and uses the following
syntax: opening tag + content + closing tag. In the code provided:

● <p> is the opening tag.


● Hello World! is the content.
● </p> is the closing tag
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● </p> is the closing tag.

<p>Hello World!</p>

HTML Tag
The syntax for a single HTML tag is an opening angle bracket < followed by the
element name and a closing angle bracket > . Here is an example of an opening <div>
tag.

<div>

Anchor Element <a>


The <a> anchor element is used to create hyperlinks in an HTML document. The
hyperlinks can point to other webpages, files on the same server, a location on the
same page, or any other URL via the hyperlink reference attribute, href . The href
determines the location the anchor element points to.

<!--Linking a text-->
<a href="codecademy.com">Visit this site</a>

<!--Linking an image-->
<a href="codecademy.com">
<img src="logo.jpg">Click this image</a>

Head Element <head>


The <head> element contains general information about an HTML page that isn’t
displayed on the page itself. This information is called metadata and includes things like
the title of the HTML document and links to stylesheets.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- metadata is contained in this element-->
</head>
</html>

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Target Attribute <target>


The target attribute on an <a> anchor element specifies where a hyperlink should be
opened. A target value of "_blank" will tell the browser to open the hyperlink in a
new tab in modern browsers, or in a new window in older browsers or if the browser
has had settings changed to open hyperlinks in a new window.

<a href="https://www.google.com" target="_blank">This anchor element links to google


and will open in a new tab or window.</a>

Indentation
HTML code should be formatted such that the indentation level of text increases once
for each level of nesting.
It is a common convention to use two or four space per level of nesting.

<div>
<h1>Heading</h1>

<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
</ul>
</div>

Link to a Different Part of the Page #


The anchor element <a> can create hyperlinks to different parts of the same HTML
document using the href attribute to point to the desired location with # followed by
the id of the element to link to.

<div>
<p id="id-of-element-to-link-to">A different part of the page!</p>
</div>

<a href="#id-of-element-to-link-to">Take me to a different part of the page</a>

HTML Element <html>


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The <html> element, the root of an HTML document, should be added after the
!DOCTYPE declaration. All content/structure for an HTML document should be contained
between the opening and closing <html> tags.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<!-- I'm a comment -->
</html>

Comments
In HTML, comments can be added between an opening <!-- and closing --> . Content
inside of comments will not be rendered by browsers, and are usually used to describe
a part of code or provide other details.
Comments can span single or multiple lines.

<!-- Main site content -->


<div>Content</div>

<!--
Comments can be
multiple lines long.
-->

Whitespace
Whitespace, such as line breaks, added to an HTML document between block-level
elements will generally be ignored by the browser and are not added to increase
spacing on the rendered HTML page. Rather, whitespace is added for organization and
easier reading of the HTML document itself.

<p>Test paragraph</p>

<!-- The whitespace created by this line, and above/below this line is ignored by
the browser-->

<p>Another test paragraph, this will sit right under the first paragraph, no extra
space between.</p>

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Title Element <title>


The <title> element contains a text that defines the title of an HTML document. The
title is displayed in the browser’s title bar or tab in which the HTML page is displayed.
The <title> element can only be contained inside a document’s <head> element.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the HTML page</title>
</head>
</html>

File Path
URL paths in HTML can be absolute paths, like a full URL, for example:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn or a relative file path that links to a
local file in the same folder or on the same server, for example: ./style.css . Relative
file paths begin with ./ followed by a path to the local file. ./ tells the browser to look
for the file path from the current folder.

<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web">The URL for this anchor


element is an absolute file path.</a>

<a href="./about.html">The URL for this anchor element is a relative file path.</a>

Document Type Declaration


The document type declaration <!DOCTYPE html> is required as the first line of an HTML
document. The doctype declaration is an instruction to the browser about what type of
document to expect and which version of HTML is being used, in this case it’s HTML5.

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