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Webville Guide to Strict HTML
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Computer Science
10th Grade
10/21/2008

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The HTML element: don't leave home without it.
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Always start each page with a DOCTYPE,the HTML element must always be the top element of your Web page. The closing HTML element should always end it.
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Remember to use both your HEAD and your BODY for better HTML.
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Only the HEAD and BODY elements can go directly inside your HTML element. Meaning that every other element must go either inside the HEAD element or teh BODY element.
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TITLE required in HEAD
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Alway give your HEAD element a TITLE element. The HEAD element is the only place you should put your TITLE, META, and STYLE elements.
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Feed your BODY only wholesome block elements.
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You can put only block elements directly inside your BODY element. All inline elements and text need to be inside another block element before they can go in the BODY element.
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Keep block elements out of your inline elements.
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The only things you can put in an inline element are text and other inline elements. Block elements are not allowed under any circumstances.
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Keep block elements out of your P element.
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Paragraphs are for text, so keep block elements out of your paragraphs. You can use inline elements in paragraphs.
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List are for list items.
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Only the LI element is allowed in the UL and OL elements.
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Put whatever you want in a list item.
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You can put text, inline elements, or block elements inside your list items.
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The BLOCKQUOTE element only likes block elements.
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The BLOCKQUOTE element requires one or more block elements inside it. Always put your text and inline elements inside block elements before adding them to a BLOCKQUOTE element.
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Be careful about nesting an inline element inside another inline element.
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Never nest an A element inside another A element because that would be too confusing for our visitors. Also, empty elements like IMG provide no way to nest other inline elements within them.
Term
Definition
Tells the browser this is specifying a document type for this page.It is NOT an html page because it has the ! after the < which means that it is something different.
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html
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This means that HTML is the root (first) element in your page.
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PUBLIC
Definition
This is just means the HTML 4.01 standard is publicly available.
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"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Trasitional//EN"
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This part says we're using HTML version 4.01 and that HTML markup is written in English.
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"http://www.W3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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This points to a file that identifies this particular standard.
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For Strtct HTML
Definition
Take out transitional and change loose.dtd to strict.dtd
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HTML 4.01
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The HTML standard that is most widely supported by browsers.
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The World Wide Web Constrution (W3C)
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The standard organization that defines what "standard HTML" is.
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The document type defintition (DOCTYPE)
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Used to tell the browser which version of HTML your Web page is written in.
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The strict DOCTYPE
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Used if you are writing fully compliant HTML 4.01
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Use the transitional DOCTYPE...
Definition
If you are transitioning HTML that still includes display oriented elements and attributes.
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The META tag in the HEAD element
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Tells the browser additional information about a Web page, such as the content type and character encoding.
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A character encoding
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Tells the browser the character set that is used in the Web page.
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Most of these laguages are used on computers today and can be represented with the ISO-8859-1 character encoding.
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Western-European
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The W3C Validator
Definition
A free online service that checks pages for compliance with standards.
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To ensure that your HTML is well formed and that your elements and attributes meet the standards, use the
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Validator
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By adhering to standards...
Definition
Your pages will display more quickly and with fewer display differences between browsers.
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True or False: Element names should be lowercase
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True
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Required om the HEAD element
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The TITLE element
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Standard organiztion that supplies the validator
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W3C
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When your HTML meets the standard, it is this.
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Compliant
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Microsoft versus Netscape
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Browser Wars
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The boss wanted to standardize before adding this to the HTML
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CSS
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IMG attribute required in standard HTML
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alt
Term
DOCTYPE that allows older HTML tags
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Transitional
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Definition that tells the browser and validator what kind of HTML you're using.
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Document Type Definition
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This service will check your HTML for compliance with the standards.
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Validator
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