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HTML Quickstart with Rob Tietje

Paragraphs and Headings

Paragraphs and Headings

HTML

This lesson covers paragraph and headings.

Paragraphs and headings are both block level elements, meaning that they sit within a rectangular block on the page. Block level elements will always have a line break before and after, seperating them vertically from other elements.

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Lessons
Getting Started
1 Introduction 7m 40s
2 Basic Structure 6m 19s
Basic Elements
3 Paragraphs and Headings 3m 17s
4 Images and Links 4m 48s
5 Ordered / Unordered Lists 1m 34s
6 Tables 6m 1s
7 Input Elements 3m 39s
Moving Forward
8 div and span 4m 58s
Assignment
1

Create a webpage that duplicates the following design

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birdwatching.css

Download the attached CSS file and put it in the same folder as the HTML file you created for the previous assignment.

Add the following line of code to the head section of your page to include the stylesheet

<link rel="stylesheet" href="birdwatching.css" />

Notice how by just adding the stylesheet the colors change. No modification of the content was necessary.

Extra: If you would like, take a look at the stylesheet and try to match how it is applying styles

3

Suppose you want to emphasize the fact that California Quail can be found at Cabrillo National Monument. You can you use em tag around the text to do just that.

Try the following inline elements tags around California Quail to see the different effects

  • em - emphasis
  • strong - important
  • i - italic
  • b - bold

You might notice that some seem to have the same effect based on the browser's interpretaion, but semantically they are different. While emphasize means to make stand out, italic just means make it italic for whatever reason. em is more specific.