Today students learned all about the basic XHTML text tags. They seemed mildly interested.
The basics were covered including paragraphs, line breaks and students learned the difference between presentational tags like <b> and <i> and descriptive tags like <strong> and <em>. Headers were also discussed and this pages is a good example of a document with nice structured headings.
Mrs. Noone used a quote from one of her favorite movies for an example on how to use <blockquote>.
The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care
Inline quotes were also mentioned and as w3schools.com says According to the HTML 4.01 spec, the q element should render with delimiting quotation marks. This works in Mozilla browsers (Firefox) and Opera. Internet Explorer ignores this entirely
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In an odd turn of events the class discussed the difference between abbreviations like HTML and CSS and acronyms like DOM and GIF.
Students were shocked to discover there is actually an address tag to use for, well, addresses!
<address>J215 Essex Campus<br />
7201 Rossville Boulevard<br />
Baltimore, MD 21237-3899<br />
</address>
Students learned a lot today and they all promised to use the correct tag for the job when coding HTML pages.