HTML5 User Manual
HTML Coding Convention:
Some convention while using HTML.
Use a Consistent CSS:
A user must use a consistent style(CSS) while writing HTML. It makes the code simpler and easier to understand for people.
Your code must be small, clean, and well-formed.
Correct Document Type:
Document type at the starting of your code.
Syntax:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!DOCTYPE html> to maintain your lower case practice.
Lower Case Element Names:
HTML5 provides to use upper case and lower case letters in element name. But the only lower case was good practice.
- Mixing lower and upper cases letters in elements is not a good idea.
- The Lowercase looks neat and clean.
- The lower case is easy to write.
- Developers mainly use lower case letters.
Example:
Bad practice:
<SECTION> <p>This is i2tutorials</p> </SECTION>
Very Bad practice:
<Section> <p>This is a i2tutorials</p> </SECTION>
Good practice:
<section> <p>This is i2tutorials.</p> </section>
Close all HTML Elements:
In HTML5, it is no use to close all HTML tags. But, it is recommended to close tags.
Bad practice:
<section> <p>This is i2tutorials </section>
Good practice:
<section> <p>This is i2tutorials</p> </section>
Close empty HTML Elements:
it is not mandatory to close empty HTML tags. You can close it or let it be unclosed.
Good practice:
<meta charset="utf-8">
Don’t Omit <html> and <body>:
HTML5 facilitates you to omit and tag. You can exclude both tags and the program will work well enough.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html> <head> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <h1>This is I2tutorials</h1> <p>Welcome to I2tutorials</p>
OUTPUT:
Not to omit and tag because is a root element and specifies the web page language.
Syntax:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US">
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US"> <head> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <body> <h1>This is a heading</h1> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> </body> </html>
OUTPUT:
