HTML by Telerik Akademy

HTML
The past, the present, the future
Doncho Minkov
Telerik AcademyWeb Design Course
html5course.telerik.com
TechnicalTrainer
http://minkov.it

Table of Contents
1. Learn how to code HTML
2. Exercise
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Table of Contents (for real)
1. Introduction to HTML
 What is a Web Page?
 My First HTML Page
 BasicTags: Hyperlinks, Images, Formatting
 Headings and Paragraphs
2. HTML in Details
 The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration
 The <head> Section:Title, Meta, Script, Style
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Table of Contents (2)
 The <body> Section
 Text Styling and FormattingTags
 Hyperlinks: <a>
 Hyperlinks and Sections
 Images: <img>
 Lists: <ol>, <ul> and <dl>
 HTML Special Characters
3. The <div> and <span> elements
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Table of Contents(3)
4. Introducing to HTML5
 Changed old tags
 New tags
 New Attributes
 New StructuralTags
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What is HTML
 HTML was designed to be simple language for
describing documents
 It was created by scientists, so “simple” is not
always your average “simple”
 Describing means outlining the structure of a
document in terms of parts: headings,
paragraphs, lists, tables etc.
 To start coding HTML, just create a new file
with “.html” extension, our touch it
 Think in structure, not presentation
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HTML Structure
 HTML was inspired by other similar
languages, such as GML and Scribe
 HTML1 had tags for the following elements:
 Paragraphs, Headings, Anchors
(links), Horizontal rule, Line breaks though they
proved insufficient and later more were added
 What are tags?
 A tag is the red letter from above enclosed in
angle brackets: <p> is for paragraph
 A pair of starting and end tag forms an element 8

Simple Q&A
 Q:Why Anchor and not Link?
 A: As mentioned earlier, HTML was created by
scientists and they tend to have different
opinion than we do
 Btw, there is Link in HTML, it just does another
job
 Q: So I just write opening and closed tags?
 A: Mostly.There are exceptions.
 And you haven’t asked about nesting
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Nesting
 Nesting is when you want to put a tag in a tag
 You’ve seen “Inception”, you know what I mean
 And like in “Inception”, the more you nest, the
nastier it gets
 Not all tags can be put in all tags
 Like, if you want to make an entire paragraph
to be a link, you don’t put the link around the
paragraph, but vice versa
 Scientists, go figure
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HTML Code Formatting
 The HTML source code should be formatted to
increase readability and facilitate debugging.
 Every block element should start on a new line.
 Every nested (block) element should be indented.
 Browsers ignore multiple whitespaces in the page
source, so formatting is harmless.
 For performance reasons, formatting can be
sacrificed
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What happened next?
 HTML evolved driven by people and browsers
 New versions of HTML
 Inevitably a doctype
 Accompanying technologies
 CSS, JavaScript
 Plugins like Java, Flash, Silverlight
 Rich media and so on…
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My first web page
 first-page.html
<html>
<head>
<title>My first page!!!</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>I am making pages</p>
</body>
</html>
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Boring
Boring
Content

Some SimpleTags
 HyperlinkTags
 ImageTags
 Text formatting tags
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<a href="http://www.telerik.com/"
title="Telerik">Link to Telerik Web site</a>
<img src="logo.gif" alt="logo" width="50" />
This text is <em>emphasized.</em>
<br />new line<br />
This one is <strong>more emphasized.</strong>

Simple Q&A
 Q:What are the equation looking things?
 A:That would be attributes
 Attributes add more information to an element
 Let’s examine:
 So my src attribute equals (is) logo.gif
 My alt attribute is logo
 You can tell it’s 50 pixels wide
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<img src="logo.gif" alt="logo" widht="50" />

Attributes
 Some attributes can apply to all element:
 id, style, class, title
 The id is unique in the document
 The title attribute is displayed as hint when
the element is hovered with the mouse
 Some attributes are optional
 Some are mandatory
 Some elements MUST have attributes
 the image element must have a src attribute
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Remember
 It is important to have the correct vision and
attitude towards HTML
 HTML is only about structure, not appearance
 Browsers tolerate invalid HTML code and parse
errors – you should not
 Always think about semantics
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Common tags
The ones needed 80% of the time

Hyperlinks
 Hyperlinks, or just links, are one-way tie
between two documents
 Put simply, if you have a page, and you want
to go to another page, you click (follow) a link
 A link must have a destination (href) attribute
and text content
 Href means “hypertext reference”
 Optionally, it my have a title
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<a href="a.html" title=“Go to A">Click</a>

Hyperlinks (2)
 Link to a document on the same server in the
same directory:
parent directory:
sub directory stuff:
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<a href="form.html">Fill Our Form</a>
<a href="../parent.html">Parent</a>
<a href="stuff/cat.html">Catalog</a>

Hyperlinks (3)
root (top most) directory:
 Remember:
 if not linking to the root (/), links are relative to
the current document and may be broken if you
move the origin document
 You can do any number of going up (../), but you
can’t go upper than the root
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<a href=“/form.html">Fill Our Form</a>

Hyperlinks (4)
 Link to an external web site:
 Always use the full URL, including the protocol
(http://), not just “devbg.org”
 Using the target attribute tells the browser
where to open the link, with _blank meaning
open in new window
 Link to an email address:
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<a href="http://devbg.org" target="_blank">BASD</a>
<a href="mailto:bugs@example.com?subject=Bug+Report">
Please report bugs here (by e-mail only)</a>

Hyperlinks and Sections
 Link to another location in the same document:
 Link to a specific location in another document:
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<a href="#section1">Go to Introduction</a>
...
<h2 id="section1">Introduction</h2>
<a href="chapter3.html#section3.1.1">Go to Section
3.1.1</a>
<!–- In chapter3.html -->
...
<div id="section3.1.1">
<h3>3.1.1. Technical Background</h3>
</div>

Hyperlinks – Example
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<a href="form.html">Fill Our Form</a> <br />
<a href="../parent.html">Parent</a> <br />
<a href="stuff/cat.html">Catalog</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.devbg.org" target="_blank">BASD</a>
<br />
<a href="mailto:bugs@example.com?subject=Bug
Report">Please report bugs here (by e-mail only)</a>
<br />
<a href="apply-now.html"><img src="apply-now.png" /></a>
<br />
<a href="../english/index.html">Switch to English
version</a> <br />
hyperlinks.html

Links to the Same Document –
Example
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<h1>Table of Contents</h1>
<p><a href="#section1">Introduction</a><br />
<a href="#section2">Some background</A><br />
<a href="#section2.1">Project History</a><br />
...the rest of the table of contents...

<h2 id="section1">Introduction</h2>
... Section 1 follows here ...
<h2 id="section2">Some background</h2>
... Section 2 follows here ...
<h3 id="section2.1">Project History</h3>
... Section 2.1 follows here ...
hyperlinks-sections.html

Links to the Same Document
Live Demo

 Inserting an image with <img> tag:
 Image attributes:
 Example:
Images: <img> tag
src Location of image file (relative or absolute)
alt Substitute text for display (e.g. in text mode)
height Number of pixels of the height
width Number of pixels of the width
border Size of border, 0 for no border
<img src="/img/basd-logo.png“ />
<img src="php.png" alt="PHP Logo" />
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Headings and Paragraphs
 HeadingTags (h1 – h6)
 ParagraphTags
 Sections: div and span
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<p>This is my first paragraph</p>
<p>This is my second paragraph</p>
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Sub heading 2</h2>
<div>This is a div</div>
<span>This is a div</span>

Headings and Paragraphs –
Example
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<html>
<head><title>Headings and paragraphs</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<p>This is my first paragraph</p>
<p>This is my second paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
headings-and-paragraphs.html

Headings and Paragraphs
Live Demo

Text Formatting
 Text formatting tags modify the text between
the opening tag and the closing tag
 Ex. <b>Hello</b> makes “Hello” bold
<b></b> bold
<i></i> italicized
<u></u> underlined
<sup></sup> Samplesuperscript
<sub></sub> Samplesubscript
<strong></strong> strong
<em></em> emphasized
<pre></pre> Preformatted text
<blockquote></blockquote> Quoted text block
<del></del> Deleted text – strike through
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Simple Q&A
 Q: Bold or strong?
 A: Strong
 Bold describes the looks e.g. the font is bold,
strong describes the importance e.g. this word
is emphasized on with great importance
 Q: So I suppose it’s emphasized and not italics?
 A: Correct
 Bold, italics, underline are deprecated and will
talk about that in a moment
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More on formatting
 Thinks semantics:
 Emphasize, Strong
emphasize, Insertion, Deletion, Sub-
script, Super-script, Quotations
 Those describe parts of the document
 There are other, lesser known text formatting
elements for input, output, variables and other
parts of a document, say a tech spec, but if you
come to need those, you can easily google
 As usual, most of them are for scientific /
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Text Formatting – Example
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<html>
<head>
<title>Text formating</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Notice</h1>
<p>This is a <em>sample</em> Web page.</p>
<p><pre>Next paragraph:
preformatted.</pre></p>
<h2>More Info</h2>
<p>One line<br />
Next line.</p>
</body>
</html>
text-formatting.html

a. Apple
b. Orange
c. Grapefruit
Ordered Lists
 Create an Ordered List using <ol></ol>:
 Attribute values for type are 1, A, a, I, or i
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1. Apple
2. Orange
3. Grapefruit
A. Apple
B. Orange
C. Grapefruit
I. Apple
II. Orange
III. Grapefruit
i. Apple
ii. Orange
iii. Grapefruit
<ol type="1">
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Grapefruit</li>
</ol>

Unordered Lists
 Create an Unordered List using <ul></ul>:
 Attribute values for type are:
 disc, circle or square
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• Apple
• Orange
• Pear
o Apple
o Orange
o Pear
 Apple
 Orange
 Pear
<ul type="disk">
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Grapefruit</li>
</ul>

Definition lists
 Create definition lists using <dl>
 Pairs of text and associated definition; text is in
<dt> tag, definition in <dd> tag
 Renders without bullets
 Definition is indented
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<dl>
<dt>HTML</dt>
<dd>A markup language …</dd>
<dt>CSS</dt>
<dd>Language used to …</dd>
</dl>

Lists – Example
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<ol type="1">
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Grapefruit</li>
</ol>
<ul type="disc">
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Grapefruit</li>
</ul>
<dl>
<dt>HTML</dt>
<dd>A markup lang…</dd>
</dl>
lists.html

MiscellaneousTags
 <hr />: Draws a horizontal rule (line):
 <center></center>: Deprecated!
 <font></font>: Deprecated!
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<hr size="5" width="70%" />
<center>Hello World!</center>
<font size="3" color="blue">Font3</font>
<font size="+4" color="blue">Font+4</font>

MiscellaneousTags – Example
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<html>
<head>
<title>Miscellaneous Tags Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<hr size="5" width="70%" />
<center>Hello World!</center>
<font size="3" color="blue">Font3</font>
<font size="+4" color="blue">Font+4</font>
</body>
</html>
misc.html

Introduction to HTML
HTML Document Structure in Depth

HTML flavours
Lime, mint and tonic

HTMLVersions
 HTML has evolved during the years
 From a handful of tags to over a hundred
 Though very few tags were removed, many new
were added
 By design, if a tag is not recognized, it’s ignored
and its text content is shown
 Problem: how to tell browsers which version is
used in a document?
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The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration
 HTML documents must start with a document
type definition (DTD)
 It tells web browsers what type is the served code
 Possible versions: HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0
(Transitional or Strict), XHTML 1.1, HTML 5
 Example:
 See http://w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html for a list
of possible doctypes
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

HTML vs. XHTML
 XHTML is more strict than HTML
 Tags and attribute names must be in lowercase
 All tags must be closed (<br/>, <img/>) while
HTML allows <br> and <img> and implies
missing closing tags (<p>par1 <p>par2)
 XHTML allows only one root <html> element
(HTML allows more than one)
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XHTML vs. HTML (2)
 Many element attributes are deprecated in
XHTML, most are moved to CSS
 Attribute minimization is forbidden, e.g.
 Note:Web browsers load XHTML faster than
HTML and valid code faster than invalid!
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<input type="checkbox" checked>
<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" />

Quick Q&A
 Q:Which doctype to use?
 A: XHTML 1.0Transitional is usually OK
 Do not be tempted by XHTML 1.1
 Q: How to remember them?
 A: Don’t. Just know which one does what and
if needed google
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Boring stuff
Head, body, comments and more…

The <head> Section
 Contains information that doesn’t show
directly on the viewable page
 Starts after the <!doctype> declaration
 Begins with <head> and ends with </head>
 Contains mandatory single <title> tag
 Can contain some other tags, e.g.
 <meta>
 <script>
 <style>
 <!–- comments -->
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<title>
 Title should be placed between <head> and
</head> tags
 Used to specify a title in the window titlebar
 Search engines and people rely on titles
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<title>Telerik Academy – Winter Season 2009/2010
</title>

 Comments can exist anywhere between the
<html></html> tags
 Comments start with 
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<!–- Telerik Logo (a JPG file) -->
<img src="logo.jpg" alt=“Telerik Logo">
<!–- Hyperlink to the web site -->
<a href="http://telerik.com/">Telerik</a>
<!–- Show the news table -->
<table class="newstable">
...

<body> Section: Introduction
 The <body> section describes the viewable
portion of the page
 Starts after the <head> </head> section
 Begins with <body> and ends with </body>
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<html>
<head><title>Test page</title></head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

HTML Special Characters
££British Pound
€€Euro
""Quotation Mark
¥¥JapaneseYen
——Em Dash
 Non-breaking Space
&&Ampersand
>>GreaterThan
<<LessThan
™™Trademark Sign
®®RegisteredTrademark Sign
©©Copyright Sign
SymbolHTML EntitySymbol Name
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Special Characters – Example
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<p>[>>  Welcome
  <<]</p>
<p>►I have following cards:
A♣, K♦ and 9♥.</p>
<p>►I prefer hard rock ♫
music ♫</p>
<p>© 2006 by Svetlin Nakov & his
team</p>
<p>Telerik Academy™</p>
special-chars.html

Special Chars – Example (2)
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<p>[>>  Welcome
  <<]</p>
<p>►I have following cards:
A♣, K♦ and 9♥.</p>
<p>►I prefer hard rock ♫
music ♫</p>
<p>© 2006 by Svetlin Nakov & his
team</p>
<p>Telerik Academy™</p>
special-chars.html

HTML Special Characters
Live Demo

Using <DIV> and <SPAN>
Block and Inline Elements

Block and Inline Elements
 Block elements add a line break before and
after them, and expand to 100% width
 <div>, <p>, <h1>, <ul> are block elements
 Inline elements don’t break the text before
and after them
 <span>, <a>, <em> are inline elements
 http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#blo
ck-boxes
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The <div>Tag
 <div> creates logical divisions within a page
 Block style element
 Used with CSS
 Example:
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<div style="font-size:24px; color:red">DIV
example</div>
<p>This one is <span style="color:red; font-
weight:bold">only a test</span>.</p>
div-and-span.html

The <span>Tag
 Inline style element
 Useful for modifying a specific portion of text
 Don't create a separate area
(paragraph) in the document
 Makes sense only with some CSS
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<p>This one is <span style="color:red; font-
weight:bold">only a test</span>.</p>
<p>This one is another <span style="font-size:32px;
font-weight:bold">TEST</span>.</p>
span.html

HTMLTags Index
 http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.
html
 http://www.htmldog.com/reference/htmltags/
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HTML 5
What the … is HTML 5?

What is HTML 5?
 HTML5 – the next major revision of the HTML
 Currently under development
 Far away from final version
 Developed under the HTML 5 working group of
theWorld WideWeb Consortium (W3C) in 2007
 First Public Working Draft of the specification
 January 22, 2008
 Parts of HTML5 are being implemented in
browsers before the whole specification is ready
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HTML – Past, Present, Future
 1991 – HTML first mentioned –Tim Berners-Lee – HTML tags
 1993 – HTML (first public version, published at IETF)
 1993 – HTML 2 draft
 1995 – HTML 2 – W3C
 1995 – HTML 3 draft
 1997 – HTML 3.2 – “Wilbur”
 1997 – HTML 4 – ”Cougar” – CSS
 1999 – HTML 4.01 (final)
 2000 – XHTML draft
 2001 – XHTML (final)
 2008 – HTML5 / XHTML5 draft
 2011 – feature complete HTML5
 2022 – HTML5 – final specification
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HTML 5 Goals
 Latest version is HTML5
 Aimed to have all of the power of native
applications
 Run on any platform (Windows, Linux, iPhone,
Android, etc.)
 New features should be based on HTML, CSS,
DOM and JavaScript
 Reduce the need for external plugins
 Better error handling
 More markup to replace scripting
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Designer Outlook
What a Designer Should Know?

Changed OldTags
 Doctype tag:
 HTML tag:
 Meta tag:
 Link tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style-original.css">

New Layout Sctucture
 Better layout structure: new structural elements
 <section>
 <header>
 <nav>
 <article>
 <aside>
 <footer>
<header>
<footer>
<nav> <aside>
<section>
<header>
<article>
<footer>

New Layout Sctucture (2)
 Elements like header and footer are not
meant to be only at the top and bottom of
the page
 Header and footer of each document section
 Not very different from <DIV> tag but are
more semantically well defined in the
document structure

New Layout Sctucture –
Example
<body>
<header>
<hgroup>
<h1>HTML 5 Presentation</h1>
<h2>New Layout Structure</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<nav>
<ul>
Lecture
</ul>
<ul>
Demos
</ul>
<ul>
Trainers
</ul>
</nav>

New Layout Sctucture –
Example (2)
<section>
<article>
<header>
<h1>First Paragraph</h1>
</header>
<section>
Some text
</section>
</article>
</section>
<aside>
<a href="http://academy.telerik.com"> more info</a>
</aside>
<footer>
Done by Doncho Minkov, (c) 2011, Telerik Academy
</footer>
</body>

New Layout StructureTags
Live Demo

NewTags
 <article>
 For external content, like text from a news-article,
blog, forum, or any other external source
 <aside>
 For content aside from (but related to) the content
it is placed in
 <details>
 For describing details about a document, or parts
of a document
 <summary>
 A caption, or summary, inside the details element

NewTags (2)
 <mark>
 For text that should be highlighted
 <nav>
 For a section of navigation
 <section>
 For a section in a document (e.g.
chapters, headers, footers)
 <wbr>
 Word break. For defining an appropriate place to
break a long word or sentence
 Other tags
 <command>, <datalist>, <details>, <progress>, etc.

New MediaTags
 MediaTags
 <audio>
 Attributes: autoplay, controls, loop, src
 <video>
 Attributes: autoplay, controls, loop,
height, width, src
<audio width="360" height="240" controls= "controls" >
<source src="someSong.mp3" type="audio/mp3">
</source>
Audio tag is not supported
</audio>

HTML Basics
Questions?
http://academy.telerik.com

Exercises
1. Write an HTML page like the following:
* Use headings and divs
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Exercises (2)
2. Write an HTML page like the following:
3. Write an HTML page looking like the PNG file named
3.Introduction.PNG. Using the <a> tag add anchors
to the corresponding sections in the same page.
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Exercises (3)
4. Create an user profile Web
page Profile.html, friends
page named Friends.html
and info page named
Info.html. Link them to
one another using <a> tag
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Exercises (4)
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5. Create aWeb site like the following:
See the image InetJava-site.png.

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