HTML and CSS

Core Concepts

ACMUT WWW 2018

by @theshem

TOC

  • Basics
  • Tools
  • Elements
  • Global Attributes
  • What is in <head>
  • HTML Validators

HTML (part 1)

History of Web

  • History
  • Basics
  • How to
  • Styling
  • Element's Levels
  • Box Model
  • Generic Containers
  • Float & Clearing
  • Positioning
  • Alignment

CSS (part 2)

History of the Web

Image © CERN

Web technologies invented by

Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN

  • HTML
  • URI
  • HTTP

Tools

WHAT TOOLS DO YOU NEED?

  • A text editor; a program that allows you to edit plain text files. (Notepad++, Sublime Text, VS Code, Brackets, etc.)
  • A web browser; that’s the application you use to view web sites. (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Opera.)

HTML Basics

Markup NOT a programming language

Image © MDN

HTML Basics

Nesting elements

<!-- Valid HTML -->
<p>My cat is <strong>very</strong> grumpy.</p>

<!-- Invalid HTML -->
<p>My cat is <strong>very grumpy.</p></strong>
<img src="images/firefox-icon.png" alt="My test image">

<!-- horizontal line -->
<hr>

<!-- a line break in text -->
<p> The HTML <br> element produces a line break in text</p>

Empty elements

HTML Basics

Structure

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>My test page</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <p>My cat is <strong>very</strong> grumpy.</p>
    <img src="images/firefox-icon.png" alt="My test image">
  </body>
</html>

Online Demo

Elements (part I)

Headings

<h1>Heading 1</h1>

<h2>Heading 2</h2>

<h3>Heading 3</h3>

<h4>Heading 4</h4>

<h5>Heading 5</h5>

<h6>Heading 6</h6>

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5
Heading 6

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Elements (part I)

Paragraphs

<h1>The Crushing Bore</h1>
<p>By Chris Mills</p>

<h2>Chapter 1: The dark night</h2>
<p>It was a dark night. Somewhere, an owl hooted. The rain lashed down on the ...</p>

<h2>Chapter 2: The eternal silence</h2>
<p>Our protagonist could not so much as a whisper out of the shadowy figure ...</p>

<h3>The specter speaks</h3>
<p>Several more hours had passed, when all of a sudden the specter sat bolt upright and exclaimed, "Please have mercy on my soul!"</p>

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Elements (part I)

Paragraphs - Live Demo

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Elements (part I)

Text formatting

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<!-- emphasis -->
<p>I am <em>glad</em> you weren't <em>late</em>.</p>

<!-- strong importance -->
<p>This liquid is <strong>highly toxic</strong>.</p>
<p>I am counting on you. <strong>Do not</strong> be late!</p>

<!-- HTML5 redefined <b>, <i> and <u> with new, somewhat confusing, semantic roles. -->

<!-- scientific names -->
<p>
  The Ruby-throated Hummingbird (<i>Archilochus colubris</i>)
  is the most common hummingbird in Eastern North America.
</p>

Elements (part I)

Lists - Unordered

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<ul>
  <li>milk</li>
  <li>eggs</li>
  <li>bread</li>
  <li>hummus</li>
</ul>
  • milk
  • eggs
  • bread
  • hummus

Elements (part I)

Unordered List - Live Demo

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Elements (part I)

Lists - Ordered

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<ol>
  <li>Item 1</li>
  <li>Item 2</li>
  <li>Item 3</li>
  <li>Item 4</li>
  <li>Item 5</li>
</ol>
  1. Item 1
  2. Item 2
  3. Item 3
  4. Item 4
  5. Item 5

Elements (part I)

Nested Lists

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Online Demo

<ol>
    <li>Main Item 1</li>
    <li>Main Item 2</li>
    <li>Main Item 3</li>
    <li>Main Item 4
        <ul>
            <li>Sub Item 1</li>
            <li>Sub Item 2</li>
        </ul>
    </li>
</ol>
  1. Main Item 1
  2. Main Item 2
  3. Main Item 3
  4. Main Item 4
    • Sub Item 1
    • Sub Item 2

Elements (part I)

Links

 

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<p>
    I'm creating a link to
    <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/"
       title="The best place to find 
       more information about Mozilla's
       mission and how to contribute">the Mozilla homepage
    </a>.
</p>

I'm creating a link to the Mozilla homepage.

Elements (part I)

Images

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<img src="images/dinosaur.jpg"
     alt="The head and torso of a dinosaur skeleton;
          it has a large head with long sharp teeth"
     width="400"
     height="341"
     title="A T-Rex on display in the Manchester University Museum">
The head and torso of a dinosaur skeleton; it has a large head with long sharp teeth

Elements (part II)

Tables

See Basics and Tables on MDN

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Header content 1</th>
      <th>Header content 2</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Body content 1</td>
      <td>Body content 2</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
  <tfoot>
    <tr>
      <td>Footer content 1</td>
      <td>Footer content 2</td>
    </tr>
  </tfoot>
</table>
Header content 1 Header content 2
Body content 1 Body content 2
Footer content 1 Footer content 2

Elements (part II)

Forms

See Forms on MDN

<form action="/my-handling-form-page" method="post">
  <div>
    <label for="name">Name:</label>
    <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name">
  </div>
  <div>
    <label for="mail">E-mail:</label>
    <input type="email" id="mail" name="user_mail">
  </div>
  <div>
    <label for="msg">Message:</label>
    <textarea id="msg" name="user_message"></textarea>
  </div>
  <div>
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
  </div>
</form>

Global Attributes

Global attributes may be specified on all HTML elements

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<!-- dir specifies the direction of contents -->
<html dir="rtl"> ... </html>

<!-- id should be unique in the document -->
<table id="top-rated-products"> ... </table>

<!-- title contains information related to the element -->
<a href="..." title="more info on this link"> ... </a>

<!-- class attribute values are separated w/ whitespace -->
<p class="paragraph small gray"> ... </p>

<!-- style is used to set inline CSS -->
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: gray"> ... </p>

What is in <head>

<head> contains info and metadata of the page

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  • Page title <title>
  • Internal Style <style>
  • External Stylesheet <link>
  • Character Set <meta charset>
  • JavaScript <script>
  • ...

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TOC

  • Basics
  • Tools
  • Elements
  • Global Attributes
  • What is in <head>
  • HTML Validators

HTML (part 1)

History of Web

  • History
  • Basics
  • How to
  • Styling
  • Element's Levels
  • Box Model
  • Generic Containers
  • Float & Clearing
  • Positioning
  • Alignment

CSS (part 2)

History of CSS

CSS was first proposed by Håkon Wium Lie in 1994. At the time, Lie was working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.

Separation of document structure from the document's layout

CSS Basics

NOT a Markup language NOR a programming language, but a stylesheet language

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CSS How To

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  • External stylesheet

 

 

  • Internal stylesheet

 

 

 

  • Inline style
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<head>
  <style>
    p { color: red; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <p style="color:red;">This is my first CSS example</p>
</body>

Cascading & Inheritance

More on w3.org

  • Some properties inherits the value
  • The cascade
    • User agent stylesheet
    • Author stylesheet
    • User style
  • !important to escape the cascade
  • Specificity of selectors

Styling!

<style>
  html {
    background-color: #f7f7f7;
    background-image: url(images/background.png);
    background-attachment: fixed;
    background-size: cover;
  }

  p {
    font-family: Arial;
    font-size: 20px;
    font-weight: 300;
  }

  a {} a:link {} a:hover, a:focus {} a:active {}
</style>

Elements' Levels

<!-- inline elements are placed on the baseline
     beside each other -->
<a href="..."> link </a>
<strong> an important thing </strong>

<!-- block-level elements take their
     parent horizontal space -->
<p> paragraphs are block-level elements </p>

<!-- making an anchor a block-level element -->
<a href="..." style="display: block"> ... </a>

Box Model

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More Styling!

Layout

Generic Containers

This is a generic block-level container for inline elements

This text is brown but this one is not .

<div>
    This is a <em>generic</em>
    block-level container for inline elements
</div>


<p style="color: brown">
    This text is brown but
    <span style="color: darkcyan">
        this one is not
    </span>
    .
</p>

Layout

Overview

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Layout

Float and Clearing

  • Document normal flow
  • Float property
  • Clear property
  • Clearfix hacks

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Layout

Positioning

  • Positioned elements
  • Absolutely positioned elements
  • Containing block
  • Offset properties
  • z-index
  • Stacking context

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Layout

Flexbox

  • Flexible box layout, Why?
  • Flex items
  • Flex direction
  • Ordering

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Layout

Alignment

 

  • Horizontal
  • Vertical

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