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Wendi's Web - HTML: Basic Elements

We’ve gone over some of the material in this lesson already, so some of the points below will be familiar.

Make sure you read the tutorial up above and understand the following:

• Block Elements vs. Inline Elements
• Semantic Elements vs. Non-semantic Elements
  • examples of semantic elements
  • why we use semantic elements instead of non-semantic
  • <strong> vs. <b> and <em> vs. <i>
  • WCAG SC 1.3.1 Info and Relationships https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/info-and-relationships.html
    • G115: Using Semantic Elements to mark up structure https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Techniques/general/G115
    • H49: Using semantic markup to mark emphasized or special text https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Techniques/html/H49
• Paragraphs <p> and <br> - proper use of <br> (why is it bad to use <br><br>? What should you use instead?)
• Creating hyperlinks using <a> element
  • href=”” attribute