Basic HTML & HTML 5

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Today's article is all about the few things I learned from the Basic HTML & HTML 5 module of FreeCode Camp which I just completed. With no further ado, let's dive right into it.



The challenge was all about building a simple cat photo web page piece by piece (see the final page below). This was an easy and very straightforward one for me. Here are my top 5 lessons & 5 fun facts from the challenge

My Top 5 Lessons

1. I started out by learning different HTML elements (e.g.,<h1>), their uses, and how they are placed when coding. I also learned about commenting in HTML (Comments in HTML start with <!--, and end with a -->). 

2. Nesting links within other test elements and definitions of terminologies such as (target- an anchor tag attribute that specifies where to open a link and the value & href - another anchor tag attribute that contains the URL address of a link) was another interesting one for me. I did a couple of nestings to be able to achieve the app

3. Creating a web form with the form element and adding a submit button was one of my best tasks

<form action="/submit-cat-photo">

<input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL">

<button type="submit">Submit</button>

</form>

4. I also created a bullet list of ordered and unordered elements.

For unordered lists, 
<ul>
<li>coding</li>
</ul>


For ordered lists, 
</ol>
<li>coding</li>
</ol>


5. Lastly, I created text fields and added placeholders to a field ( e.g  <input type ="text"
placeholder="cat photo URL">) & guess what? Creating radio buttons and checkboxes was my favourite task of all. 


Below is a screenshot of the completed task:



5 Fun Facts: 

- Do you know that HTML stands for "Hyper Text Markup Language"

- Do you know that the main tag helps search engines and other developers find the main content of your page

-  Do you know that you can turn an image into a link, using a element

- Do you know that you can create a dead link with a hashtag. For example: href="#"

-  Do you know that the div element is one of the most commonly used HTML elements. It is like a container for other elements



That will be all from me today. I hope you have learned something from my blog today. Thank you for stopping by. 


HAPPY CODING!!! ❤️