Chapter 8: HTML Document Structure
In This Chapter
Identifying HTML versions
Commenting for posterity (or later reference)
Starting an HTML document from the head down
Building an HTML document body
Creating document divisions
Using heading levels
Describing an HTML document to robots and search engines
Naming your HTML documents
Developing an HTML style
Chapter Outline
- The Importance of Document Structure
- What browsers forgive, a validator may not!
- The very model of a valid, well-formed HTML
document
- <!-- . . . --> Comments
- <!DOCTYPE> Document type
- <address> . . . </address> Attribution
information
- <base> Basis for relative addressing
- <body> . . . </body> Document
body
- <div> . . . </div> Logical division
- <h*> . . . </h*> Header levels
- <head> . . . </head> Document
head block
- <html> . . . </html> HTML document
- <meta> Meta-information
- <span> . . . </span> Localized
style formatting
- <style> . . . </style> Style
information
- <title> . . . </title> Document
title
- Back to the Future
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