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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

814: Fundamentals: HTML

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about HTML fundamentals — from basic structure and semantics to practical tips for better accessibility and SEO. They also discuss the difference between block and inline elements, form functionalities, HTML5 elements like dialog and canvas, and more.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax. Today we have a fundamental show for you again. These are shows that we do every now and then about fundamentals about different types of programming. We have them on TypeScript and JavaScript and CSS and we've got quite a few of them and we realize we actually haven't done a full-blown

0:18.6

HTML Fundamentals episode just yet and that is one of the very first building blocks that you learn and

0:25.8

having a good base to build your house upon is crucial. So here we are today we're

0:31.5

going to talk to you all about why good

0:33.2

at HTML is important, a good structure, what does

0:36.2

semantic elements mean, and just basically how do you, when you're

0:40.1

authoring a website or a web app, how do you tackle that and make your

0:44.0

HTML look like onions which is a good thing by the way. That saying

0:51.8

saying onions is only a reference that like people from the Toronto G. T. A area

0:57.9

I get. Maybe I should explain it because I often will say like ooh onions. Chuck Skorski who is the commentator for the

1:06.3

raptors on TV whenever a if you just Google onions baby onions you'll find like all these highlight reels of like that crazy

1:15.6

Vince Carter doing like wild stuff back in I don't know when was Vince Carter through

1:20.4

the legs underneath the leg yeah and Chuck Sworski would just go onions, baby onions.

1:27.0

And it's like, you can throw out.

1:30.0

It's so good it makes you cry. Is that?

1:32.0

Oh, maybe. I never considered it. I just am I'm very, I love slang that is like when somebody throws out a slang that I've never heard but you kind of

1:43.6

understand I like I read urban dictionary like at least once a week just to sort of

1:49.0

get new new one liners saying, it's so good.

1:53.6

Do you read her dictionary?

1:55.6

I almost always pull it up when my wife says something

1:58.4

that she does not understand the meaning behind

2:01.6

because she works in a school, right?

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