We started on HTML and CSS basics this week! We laid out the basics of HTML by creating a simple rock-paper-scissors webpage.
We began by getting acclimated to the very basics of GitPod and VSCode. Our first HTML lesson consisted of learning the syntax.
<a href="https://github.com/">
Go to GitHub
</a>
The syntax consists of:
- The opening tag
<a> - The closing tag
</a> - The content in between
Go to GitHub - Attributes inside the opening tag
href=""
And collectively, we call this an element.
- Elements can have more than one attribute and contain other elements!
- The element inside is called the child element, while the element outside is the parent element.
We also learned the boilerplate of HTML.
<!DOCTYPE html
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Document</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
</head>
<body>
<!-- content to be displayed to the user -->
</body>
</html>
Now more on attributes, some only make sense in specific elements. Examples include:
-
href=""is for<a>elements and specifies where to take the user when they click on the link. -
src=""is for<img>elements and specifies the url of the image to load. -
for=""is for<label>elements and specifies which input element it is paired with.
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