Welcome to HTML!
Welcome to the Create a Loop HTML course! You’ll learn what HTML is, how it works and how to code some yourself! This course will use CodeSandbox as the primary coding platform though you can use something else if your teacher wants to do so. Here are some of the topics we’ll cover:
Syntax or how HTML is formatted
Tags and Elements both common and less common!
Attributes and pairing up with CSS for design
Embedding other content such as images and video
Advanced functionality: Forms, Tables and more
…and of course, building your own website!
Each lesson will always include a quiz and usually some code you must submit. This will almost always be a CodeSandbox link!
You will see a sidebar navigation to the right on every page. You can expand this navigation by clicking on the + button. This lets you see sections within a topic. Click the - button to shrink or collapse the navigation bar back down.
Each lesson contains an exercise, puzzle, question or problem to solve. Once you take care of these you can move forward (or backward!) by clicking the buttons at the bottom of every page.
What is HTML?
HTML stands for Hyper-Text Markup Language. It is the foundational code of virtually every website you see or visit on the Internet! The structure or foundation of a web page is made of HTML. This includes content such as text, images, and links.
Within HTML we have tags or elements that define sections of code, such as headers, paragraphs, and more. We can also combine HTML with CSS and JavaScript (and other languages) to enhance, improve and add functionality to our web page! That means we could code our main web page in HTML and give it a makeover with CSS styling to change the colors, fonts, and overall feel.
We could pair up JavaScript to add drop down menus, smooth scrolling, visualizations, and other improved user functionality.
HTML is where we start our coding because it is foundational. If we were building a house we’d need a foundation (HTML) and the layout of rooms. We can add doors, windows, decoration, and utilities with JavaScript and CSS. In order to start coding we need to use a coding platform. Our preference is CodeSandbox, which we’ll set up next. But first…
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