The Building Blocks of Pages

Page Structure and Extra Markup Identifying with ids Styling with Classes Grouping with Divs Sectioning with Spans Building a Page (Step-by-Step) TODO

Iframes

The 3-Part iframe Element 1. The <iframe> Tags 2. Source 3. Width and Height Review: The iframe Element Websites in the iframe Element Maps in the iframe Element Media in the iframe Element TODO

The Meta Element

The Meta Element Character Set Attribute Description Attribute Author Attribute Keywords Attribute Viewport Element Review: Meta Elements TODO

Escape Characters

Solving Conflicts with Escape Characters Escape Character Names Escape Character Codes Common Escape Characters TODO

Media Management

Media on the Web Sourcing Images Sourcing Video Sourcing Audio Optimizing for the Web Media Hosting and Storage TODO

Video

Adding Video in HTML The 5-Part Video Element 1. The <video> Tags 2. Source 3. Poster 4. Width and Height 5. Other Attributes Review: The Video Element Formats and Browser Support TODO

Audio

Adding Audio in HTML The 3-Part Audio Element 1. The <audio> Tags 2. Source 3. Other Attributes Review: The Audio Element Formats and Browser Support TODO

The Meta Element

If you remember from a few Topics back, we explored how meta elements are placed inside of the <head> element, and briefly described what role they perform. Let’s dig a little deeper into this concept.

Remember?
The <meta> element describes metadata about an HTML page. This metadata is not displayed to users, but used by browsers and search engines. This may describe what character encoding the document contains, the published date, author information, descriptions for search engines, keywords, etc.

The meta element is an “empty element.” As such, no closing tag is necessary. Also, as with form elements, metadata is always passed as a name=”value” pair. Typically via the name="" and content="" attributes.

Important <meta> elements are always placed inside the <head> element.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <!-- Meta data and information about your site, not visible to visitors. -->
  </head>

</html>