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The importance of learning HTML

By: lowster11

You may be wondering why it's so important to learn HTML when there are tools that will do it all for you. I know I was. The following reasons say it all:

If you rely on a Web development tool to write your HTML for you, you only know as much about HTML as your tool does. When new features and versions of the HTML language come out, you won't be able to use them without upgrading your tool.
If something on your page breaks and your tool can't fix it, you won't be able fix it either. Sometimes tools do strange things and produce strange HTML code. If you don't know HTML, you won't be able to change the tool's output and fix your Web page.
Web development tools often write HTML that works better in one browser than in another, or that looks great when you preview it in the development application, but not in a real-life browser. That's not good if you want to reach a wide audience. In most cases, you want your HTML to be browser-agnostic, which means that you want to use standard HTML.
HTML is really easy to learn. You're not learning a programming language, you're learning a markup language, and the two are very different. HTML is intuitive and you'll find that it makes sense almost immediately. As a bonus, what you learn about HTML will help you learn other markup languages -- like XML -- later on.
Tips for good HTML code

Use line breaks and indented text to make your HTML file easier to read.
Insert comments into your HTML file to document your work.
Enter all tag and attribute names in lowercase.
Place all attribute values in quotes.
Close all two-sided tags.
Make sure that nested elements do not cross.
Use styles in place of presentational attributes whenever possible.
Use logical elements to describe an element's content. Use physical elements to describe the element's appearance.
Include the alt attribute for any inline image to specify alternative text for non-graphical browsers.
Know your market and the types of browsers that your audience will use to view your Web page.
Test your Web page on all relevant browsers and devices.

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