HTML5
Notes for Professionals
HTML5
Notes for Professionals
100+ pages
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Contents
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Chapter 1: Getting started with HTML
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Section 1.1: Hello World
Chapter 2: Doctypes
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Section 2.1: Adding the Doctype
Section 2.2: HTML 5 Doctype
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Chapter 3: Headings
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Section 3.1: Using Headings
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Chapter 4: Paragraphs
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Section 4.1: HTML Paragraphs
Chapter 5: Text Formatting
Section 5.1: Highlighting
Section 5.2: Bold, Italic, and Underline
Section 5.3: Abbreviation
Section 5.4: Inserted, Deleted, or Stricken
Section 5.5: Superscript and Subscript
Chapter 6: Anchors and Hyperlinks
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Section 6.1: Link to another site
Section 6.2: Link to an anchor
Section 6.3: Link to a page on the same site
Section 6.4: Link that dials a number
Section 6.5: Open link in new tab/window
Section 6.6: Link that runs JavaScript
Section 6.7: Link that runs email client
Chapter 7: Lists
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Section 7.1: Ordered List
Section 7.2: Unordered List
Section 7.3: Nested lists
Section 7.4: Description List
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Chapter 8: Tables
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Section 8.1: Simple Table
Section 8.2: Spanning columns or rows
Section 8.3: Column Groups
Section 8.4: Table with thead, tbody, tfoot, and caption
Section 8.5: Heading scope
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Chapter 9: Comments
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Section 9.1: Creating comments
Section 9.2: Commenting out whitespace between inline elements
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Chapter 10: Classes and IDs
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Section 10.1: Giving an element a class
Section 10.2: Giving an element an ID
Section 10.3: Acceptable Values
Section 10.4: Problems related to duplicated IDs
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Chapter 11: Data Attributes
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Section 11.1: Older browsers support
Section 11.2: Data Attribute Use
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Chapter 12: Linking Resources
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Section 12.1: JavaScript
Section 12.2: External CSS Stylesheet
Section 12.3: Favicon
Section 12.4: Alternative CSS
Section 12.5: Resource Hint: dns-prefetch, prefetch, prerender
Section 12.6: Link 'media' attribute
Section 12.7: Prev and Next
Section 12.8: Web Feed
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Chapter 13: Include JavaScript Code in HTML
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Section 13.1: Handling disabled Javascript
Section 13.2: Linking to an external JavaScript file
Section 13.3: Directly including JavaScript code
Section 13.4: Including a JavaScript file executing asynchronously
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Chapter 14: Using HTML with CSS
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Section 14.1: External Stylesheet Use
Section 14.2: Internal Stylesheet
Section 14.3: Inline Style
Section 14.4: Multiple Stylesheets
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Chapter 15: Images
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Section 15.1: Creating an image
Section 15.2: Choosing alt text
Section 15.3: Responsive image using the srcset attribute
Section 15.4: Responsive image using picture element
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Chapter 16: Image Maps
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Section 16.1: Introduction to Image Maps
Chapter 17: Input Control Elements
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Section 17.1: Text
Section 17.2: Checkbox and Radio Buttons
Section 17.3: Input Validation
Section 17.4: Color
Section 17.5: Password
Section 17.6: File
Section 17.7: Button
Section 17.8: Submit
Section 17.9: Reset
Section 17.10: Hidden
Section 17.11: Tel
Section 17.12: Email
Section 17.13: Number
Section 17.14: Range
Section 17.15: Search
Section 17.16: Image
Section 17.17: Week
Section 17.18: Url
Section 17.19: DateTime-Local
Section 17.20: Month
Section 17.21: Time
Section 17.22: DateTime (Global)
Section 17.23: Date
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Chapter 18: Forms
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Section 18.1: Submitting
Section 18.2: Target attribute in form tag
Section 18.3: Uploading Files
Section 18.4: Grouping a few input fields
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Chapter 19: Div Element
Section 19.1: Basic usage
Section 19.2: Nesting
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Chapter 20: Sectioning Elements
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Section 20.1: Nav Element
Section 20.2: Article Element
Section 20.3: Main Element
Section 20.4: Header Element
Section 20.5: Footer Element
Section 20.6: Section Element
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Chapter 21: Navigation Bars
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Section 21.1: Basic Navigation Bar
Section 21.2: HTML5 Navigation Bar
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Chapter 22: Label Element
Section 22.1: About Label
Section 22.2: Basic Use
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Chapter 23: Output Element
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Section 23.1: Output Element Using For and Form Attributes
Section 23.2: Output Element with Attributes
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Chapter 24: Void Elements
Section 24.1: Void elements
Chapter 25: Media Elements
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Section 25.1: Audio
Section 25.2: Video
Section 25.3: Using <video> and <audio> element to display audio/video content
Section 25.4: Video header or background
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Chapter 26: Progress Element
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Section 26.1: Progress
Section 26.2: Changing the color of a progress bar
Section 26.3: HTML Fallback
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Chapter 27: Selection Menu Controls
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Section 27.1: Select Menu
Section 27.2: Options
Section 27.3: Option Groups
Section 27.4: Datalist
Chapter 28: Embed
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Section 28.2: Defining the MIME type
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Chapter 29: IFrames
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Section 29.1: Basics of an Inline Frame
Section 29.2: Sandboxing
Section 29.3: Setting the Frame Size
Section 29.4: Using the "srcdoc" Attribute
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Chapter 30: Content Languages
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Section 30.1: Base Document Language
Section 30.2: Element Language
Section 30.3: Elements with Multiple Languages
Section 30.4: Regional URLs
Section 30.5: Handling Attributes with Dierent Languages
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Chapter 31: SVG
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Section 31.1: Inline SVG
Section 31.2: Embedding external SVG files in HTML
Section 31.3: Embedding SVG using CSS
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Chapter 32: Canvas
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Section 32.1: Basic Example
Section 32.2: Drawing two rectangles on a <canvas>
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Chapter 33: Meta Information
Section 33.1: Page Information
Section 33.2: Character Encoding
Section 33.3: Robots
Section 33.4: Social Media
Section 33.5: Mobile Layout Control
Section 33.6: Automatic Refresh
Section 33.7: Phone Number Recognition
Section 33.8: Automatic redirect
Section 33.9: Web App
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Chapter 34: Marking up computer code
Section 34.1: Block with <pre> and <code>
Section 34.2: Inline with <code>
Chapter 35: Marking-up Quotes
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Section 35.1: Inline with <q>
Section 35.2: Block with <blockquote>
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Chapter 36: Tabindex
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Section 36.1: Add an element to the tabbing order
Section 36.2: Remove an element from the tabbing order
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Chapter 37: Global Attributes
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Section 37.1: Contenteditable Attribute
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Chapter 38: HTML 5 Cache
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Section 38.1: Basic Example of HTML5 cache
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Chapter 39: HTML Event Attributes
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Section 39.1: HTML Form Events
Section 39.2: Keyboard Events
Chapter 40: Character Entities
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Section 40.1: Character Entities in HTML
Section 40.2: Common Special Characters
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Section 41.1: role="presentation"
Section 41.2: role="alert"
Section 41.3: role="alertdialog"
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Section 41.4: role="application"
Section 41.5: role="article"
Section 41.6: role="banner"
Section 41.7: role="button"
Section 41.8: role="cell"
Section 41.9: role="checkbox"
Section 41.10: role="columnheader"
Section 41.11: role="combobox"
Section 41.12: role="complementary"
Section 41.13: role="contentinfo"
Section 41.14: role="definition"
Section 41.15: role="dialog"
Section 41.16: role="directory"
Section 41.17: role="document"
Section 41.18: role="form"
Section 41.19: role="grid"
Section 41.20: role="gridcell"
Section 41.21: role="group"
Section 41.22: role="heading"
Section 41.23: role="img"
Section 41.24: role="link"
Section 41.25: role="list"
Section 41.26: role="listbox"
Section 41.27: role="listitem"
Section 41.28: role="log"
Section 41.29: role="main"
Section 41.30: role="marquee"
Section 41.31: role="math"
Section 41.32: role="menu"
Section 41.33: role="menubar"
Section 41.34: role="menuitem"
Section 41.35: role="menuitemcheckbox"
Section 41.36: role="menuitemradio"
Section 41.37: role="navigation"
Section 41.38: role="note"
Section 41.39: role="option"
Section 41.40: role="progressbar"
Section 41.41: role="radio"
Section 41.42: role="region"
Section 41.43: role="radiogroup"
Section 41.44: role="row"
Section 41.45: role="rowgroup"
Section 41.46: role="rowheader"
Section 41.47: role="scrollbar"
Section 41.48: role="search"
Section 41.49: role="searchbox"
Section 41.50: role="separator"
Section 41.51: role="slider"
Section 41.52: role="spinbutton"
Section 41.53: role="status"
Section 41.54: role="switch"
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