I have written a couple of blog posts about my experience with the "HTML Essential Training" course by Lynda.com. I'm currently working on the seventh chapter of this course and I just wanted to share what I have learned since the last time I wrote a blog post about this course.
In the fourth chapter of this course, I learned more about structuring content. When I learned HTML for the first time, I never learned or grasped the concept that so many elements have semantic meaning. In this course, I also was introduced to WAI-ARIA and the landmark role attribute. While I need to do more research on this attribute, my understanding from this course is that this attribute is helpful for making a website more accessible.
In the fifth chapter of the course, I learned about creating links. I have learned about links before, but I learned a few things that I did not know previously:
I'm in the middle of the seventh chapter of the course and so far it has been a review of things that I have learned previously, but it is a helpful review nonetheless.
Thank you for reading!
In the fourth chapter of this course, I learned more about structuring content. When I learned HTML for the first time, I never learned or grasped the concept that so many elements have semantic meaning. In this course, I also was introduced to WAI-ARIA and the landmark role attribute. While I need to do more research on this attribute, my understanding from this course is that this attribute is helpful for making a website more accessible.
In the fifth chapter of the course, I learned about creating links. I have learned about links before, but I learned a few things that I did not know previously:
- The tag that is used for links is called the anchor tag.
- The target attribute can be used so the link opens in a new window or tab.
- The rel attribute describes the relationship of the target object to the link object.
- The download attribute is fairly new and not always supported, but it is used to indicate that the link is a download. This attribute is useful when the download is of a file type that the browser can open (like a PDF), but you want to force the browser to actually download it.
- The title attribute is important for accessibility.
- There are boolean attributes in HTML.
- The most common use of the anchor element is linking to pages within the same site.
- I also learned how to link to a region of a page.
I'm in the middle of the seventh chapter of the course and so far it has been a review of things that I have learned previously, but it is a helpful review nonetheless.
Thank you for reading!
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