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Uncover the power of fundamental HTML elements like headings and paragraphs. Witness the visual impact of heading tags from h1 to h6 and discover the importance of paragraph tags.
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You've discovered that HTML
provides structure and
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significance on the content
through tags known as mockup.
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When you write mockup,
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you're essentially instructing the browser
on how to present your content.
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Remember the appearance of the page
before we incorporated any mockup.
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It was just a single
continuous line of text.
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Clearly, that didn't offer
a pleasant reading experience.
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Structuring content with HTML
organizes your content and
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makes the users reading experience
easier and more enjoyable.
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Books, magazines, and
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newspapers organize text using titles,
headings, and paragraphs.
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HTML offers similar element
structuring content.
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The most common elements used to structure
content are headings and paragraphs.
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The h1 tag represents a heading element
with the 1 indicating it's a level 1
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heading, the main or
most important heading on the page.
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However, h1 is just one among
several heading elements available.
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HTML provides six heading elements,
h1 through h6.
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Each indicates a distinct section of
content and represents a different
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level of importance on the page, with h1
being the highest level and h6 the lowest.
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Paragraphs in HTML
are created using the p tag.
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Any text enclosed within p tags will
appear on the webpage as a paragraph.
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It's crucial to note that the p tag is
designed for individual paragraphs and
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isn't meant to contain
multiple paragraphs.
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Therefore, if you have multiple
paragraphs of text, use a new p tag for
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each paragraph.
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The website we're about to create is
our recipe book and we want the text,
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My Recipe Book,
to serve as a main heading.
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To achieve this, we'll wrap the text
with an opening and closing h1 tags.
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I'll cut the closing h1 tag using
the keyboard shortcut Command+ X and
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then paste it at the end of
the text with Command+ V.
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Typically, the initial heading
on a web page is an h1.
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It's like the main headline in
a newspaper or magazine article.
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When you save the HTML file and
refresh the browser,
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you'll notice My Recipe Book
displayed in large bold letters with
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the text outside the h1 element
appearing below the heading.
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Now that we've set the main heading,
let's refer to our mockup and
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incorporate all the necessary heading and
paragraph tags.
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As we learned earlier in the video,
heading tags come in different levels,
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each representing a distinct section
of content with varying levels of
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importance on the page.
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We assigned the text, My Recipe Book,
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a level one heading as it
describes our entire website.
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Moving on to the next section,
the recipe titles, Spaghetti Carbonara,
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since this recipe is just one
among many in our recipe book.
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We'll use an h2 tag to indicate
a slightly lower level of importance
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compared to the main heading.
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Let's return to our index.html file and
wrap the text,
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Spaghetti Carbonara,
within an opening and closing h2 tag.
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Save the file and refresh the browser.
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The h1 tag signifies the highest level
heading on the page causing it to
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stand out from other texts due
to the browser's default styles.
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On the other hand,
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an h2 tag being slightly less crucial
is displayed with a smaller font size.
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You might have noticed in our mockup that
the recipe title, spaghetti carbonara,
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has a larger font size compared to my
recipe book text, which uses an h1 tag.
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Remember that heading levels are meant to
indicate the importance of the heading.
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So your choice of heading levels
should not be based on appearance but
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on importance.
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The reason the h1 tag appears larger
than our h2 tag is simply due to
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the browser's default styling.
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If I use this Chrome extension
to disable the browser's CSS,
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you'll notice that both headings
have the same exact style.
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This serves as a friendly reminder that
HTML controls the structure of your web
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page while CSS is responsible for
styling it.
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Let's continue with adding
the remaining headings and paragraphs.
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Below the image,
there's a paragraph about this recipe.
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So let's incorporate that into our page.
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After our h2 tag,
insert an opening and closing p tag.
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Between these p tags is where we'll
place the text we want to display as
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a paragraph.
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In our recipe.txt file, let's copy
the paragraph text by highlighting it and
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using the shortcut Command+ C or
Ctrl+ C for Window users.
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In index.html, I'll paste the text
between the opening and closing p tags.
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Let's save the file and
refresh the browser.
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Excellent, our paragraph has been
successfully added to the page.
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Moving on, we have the ingredients and
step sections.
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Each of these will receive an h3 heading
level, one level below our recipe title.
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Finally, at the bottom left,
we have our last two paragraphs.
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One giving credit to the website
the recipe is from, and
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another to let people know
who made this website.
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In our index.html file,
let's add our h3 tags.
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Type our opening h3 tag, and
inside, type ingredients.
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After the closing h3 tag,
press Enter a couple of times,
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and then add another h3 tag for
our steps text.
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Finally, let's conclude with
the last two paragraphs.
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Press Enter a couple of times and
add a p tag with the text,
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recipe from jamieoliver.com.
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Now, the last paragraph
requires a bit more work.
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To get this heart and copyright icon,
we'll need to use HTML character entities.
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HTML entities are frequently used to
showcase reserved characters, which would
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otherwise be interpreted as HTML code such
as the left and right angle brackets.
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Additionally, HTML character entities
can replace other characters that
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are challenging to input
using a standard keyboard.
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In the teacher's notes,
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I've included a link to this MDN page
that displays common HTML entities.
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The page shows to display the copyright
symbol, we must type ampersand ©.
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Although the heart icon isn't listed here,
I'll show you how to include that as well.
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Back to our file, press enter
a couple of times and add a p tag.
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Inside the p tag, we'll write,
made with, to get the heart icon,
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type &heart;, and
then type by and your name.
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To get the copyright symbol,
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we'll type the same text the MDN
docs told us, which is ©.
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Save the file and refresh the browser.
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Great, we now have our two h3 tags
along with the paragraph text.
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In a later part of this stage,
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we'll transform jamieoliver.com
into a clickable link.
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However, up next,
we'll begin creating lists with HTML,
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allowing us to outline our ingredients and
steps.
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