Online Introduction to HTML and CSS course
Virtual classroom - online courses available
Impartica IT Training
Summary
- Certificate of completion - Free
- Tutor is available to students
Add to basket or enquire
Overview
This course will give you an introduction to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - the language of the world wide web.
You will learn how to write your own web pages and to style them using Cascading Stylesheets (CSS).
Description
Introducing HTML
- What is HTML?
- HTML files
- HTML and the internet
- Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
- Default pages
- HTML and browsers
- Common browsers
- HTML versions
HTML page structure
- HTML page structure
- The document type declaration
- Document type settings
- HTML 4.01 versions
- New DTD in HTML5
- Validating your HTML
- The header section
- The contents of the page
- Writing an HTML page
- What is an element?
- The html, head and body elements
- Contents of the head element
- The title element
- Contents of the body element
- More on Headings
- The p element - paragraphs
- Spaces and tabs in text
- Emphasising text within paragraphs
- Adding a strong emphasis
- b and i elements
- Line Breaks
- Adding comments to HTML
- Special characters in HTML
Adding links, images and multimedia
- Embedding images
- img element attributes
- Image formats
- Image height and width
- Specifying image height and width
- Creating links
- Opening a link in a new window
- Absolute vs relative paths
- Relative paths
- The base element
- Linking to a particular part of a page
- What links look like
- Using an image as a hyperlink
- Embedding other multimedia
Image maps
- Image maps
- Creating image maps
- The map element
- The area sub-elements
- The shape attribute
- The coords attribute
- Map element in a separate file
HTML logical elements
- Addresses
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Defining terms and phrases
- Quotations
- Insertions and deletions
- The Meta element (Meta tags)
- Setting the content type
- Specifying the character set
- New charset attribute in HTML5
Styling your HTML
- Styling your HTML
- What is CSS?
- Internal style sheets
- Specifying styles in a separate file
- CSS rules
- CSS rules for multiple elements
- Declaring Styles Inline
- Background colour
- Colours
- 3 digit hex values
- Functional notation
- Functional notation using percentages
- Colour names
- Background images
- Formatting text: colour
- Formatting text: alignment
- Formatting text: decoration
- Formatting text: Indentation
- Formatting text: Text transformation
- Fonts
- Generic font families
- Font style and weight
- Font size
- Deprecated tags and attributes
More CSS
- Reference by ID
- Reference by class
- Being even more specific
- Pseudo-classes
- Block and inline elements
- The CSS display property
- div and span
- New in HTML5: section and article
Lists
- Lists
- Ordered lists
- Declaring an ordered list
- Unordered lists
- Declaring an unordered list
- Definition lists
- Declaring a definition list
- Displaying lists
- Formatting lists
The box model
- The box model
- Borders
- Border styles
- Border width and colour
- Shorthand border definition
- Setting individual borders
- Padding
- Padding individual sides of an element
- Margins
- Setting individual margins
- Using margins to centre a block element
- Height and width
- The full size of the element
- The full size of the element – IE bug
- Visibility
- Positioning
- Static positioning
- Fixed positioning
- Relative positioning
- Absolute positioning
- The z-index property
- Float
HTML Tables
- Data vs layout tables
- Example: Using a table to display data
- Example: Using a table for layout
- Defining a table
- Add a caption and summary to tables
- Column widths
- colspan and rowspan
- Formatting table data
Advanced topics: HTML Forms
- What are HTML forms?
- HTML form example
- The input element
- New input type values in HTML5
- New input attribute in HTML5: autocomplete
- New input attribute in HTML5: required
- New input attribute in HTML5: placeholder
- Password fields
- Text areas
- A textarea’s wrap attribute
- Radio buttons
- Checkboxes
- Hidden fields
- Uploading files
- Submit buttons
- Reset buttons
- Labelling form elements
- A form’s action
- Form submission methods
XHTML
- XHTML
- XHTML: differences from HTML 4.01
- XHTML DOCTYPE declaration
- Changes to document prologue
Next steps
- Using JavaScript for form validation
- Web Development Frameworks
- Common web development frameworks
Who is this course for?
his course is for anyone who wants to learn HTML & CSS
Requirements
There are no prerequsites for this course
Career path
These skills could be useful for anyone in a role that requires knowledge of" followed by HTML & CSS
Questions and answers
Certificates
Certificate of completion
Digital certificate - Included
Reviews
Currently there are no reviews for this course. Be the first to leave a review.
Add to basket or enquire
Course provided by
Legal information
This course is advertised on reed.co.uk by the Course Provider, whose terms and conditions apply. Purchases are made directly from the Course Provider, and as such, content and materials are supplied by the Course Provider directly. Reed is acting as agent and not reseller in relation to this course. Reed's only responsibility is to facilitate your payment for the course. It is your responsibility to review and agree to the Course Provider's terms and conditions and satisfy yourself as to the suitability of the course you intend to purchase. Reed will not have any responsibility for the content of the course and/or associated materials.
