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HTML, XHTML, and CSS Training

Available in LearnGreen Course Number: WDHT-200
Duration: 3 days

Price per Student for Scheduled Classes: $1,500.00
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Format: On-Site Training, Virtual Training

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Course Description

This course is designed to introduce HTML and XHTML basics for creating meaningful and interesting pages. The course includes fun and real-world examples to highlight the differences between HTML and XHMTL. Cascading Style Sheets have become a fundamental part in the development and management of web pages. CSS plays a critical role for any organization that has adopted the concept of separating content from presentation in Web pages.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

how the Web operates in conjunction with XHTML's role
basic Web page construction – including the major Tag
a Web page that includes multiple images and hyperlinks
the <HEAD> section as well as the corresponding Meta-data
the basic Tag attributes
and add one or more lists to a page
the benefits of XHTML
between XHTML well-formed and XHTML validity rules
HTML to XHTML conversion
CSS theory and concepts including selectors, cascading, inheritance, and specificity
how CSS properties and values are used to control positioning, color, background and borders

Course Audience

Developers
Engineers
Web Developers and Managers
Graphic Designers

Course Prerequisites

understanding of the Web
programming experience is helpful for the CSS portion but is not required

Course Topics

HTML Basics v1.2
- Internet Terminology and the History of Markup
- HTML and (X)HTML Versions
- Markup
  - Tags
  - Attributes
  - Common Core Attributes
- Basic HTML Tags
  - Body, head, headers
  - Document Formatting Tags
  - Text Formatting Tags
- HTML Events and When They Occur
- Summary
HTML Tags v1.2
- Forms
  - The <input> Tag
  - The <textarea> Tag
  - <select> and <option>Tag
  - Submit and Reset Button
  - The Action and Method Attribute
- Form Submission: Get vs. Post
- Linking Documents
  - The Anchor Tag <a>
  - Relative vs. Absolute Links
- Images
  - Image Formats
  - <img> Tag and its Attributes
- Tables
  - Creating Tables
  - Rows and Columns
  - Using thead, tfoot and tbody
- Special Characters
- Formatting Tags
- HTML Lists
HTML Tags Details v1.1
- Logical vs. Physical Tags
- Block vs. Inline Tags
- Box Model
- The <div> and <span> Tags
- Understanding DOCTYPE
- Quirks Mode and Standards Mode
- Which DOCTYPE Should I Use?
XHTML Basics v1.2
- XHTML Basics
- What’s wrong with HTML?
- XHTML vs. CSS vs. JavaScript
- Why use XHTML?
- XML (XHTML) Rules
- XML (XHTML) Validity Rules
- Converting HTML to XHTML
- Mandatory XHTML Elements
CSS Introduction v1.2
- CSS History
- Why use Style Sheets?
- CSS Syntax
- Placement of Styles
- Inline Style Attribute
- The <style> Tag
- External CSS Files
- Browser Default Style Sheets
- The Style Object
- CSS Property References
CSS Inheritance and Selectors v1.1
- Understanding Style Inheritance
- CSS Style and Computed Style
- Understanding Selectors
- CSS Syntax for Classes and IDs
- More on Selectors
- Pseudo Selectors, Classes and Elements
CSS Formatting Specifics v1.1
- CSS Shorthand Properties
- Text and Fonts - The Big Picture
- Fonts: font-family, size, weight and style
- Text: text-decoration, color, dimensions
- Background Properties
- Background-Image
CSS Box Model v1.1
- Block tags vs. Inline tags
- Box-Level Individual Properties, Content Area, Padding Properties, Border Properties
- Box Model: Margins,Margin Properties, Negative Margins, Collapsing Margins
- Margins vs. Padding
- IE and the Box Model
CSS Positioning v1.1
- Positioning 101
- Normal Flow
- Relative and Absolute Positioning
- Floating and Positioning
- Tableless Layout
CSS Positioning v1.1
- The Cascade
- How Many Ways can an Element be Styled?
- Sources of Style Rules
- How are Conflicts Resolved?
- Who Supplies the Rule
- Specificity
CSS Appendix v1.1
- Validating CSS
- The W3C Validator
- If Expressions in IE
- CSS Best Practices
- Creating CSS for Different Media
- Browser Differences