Front End Engineering, May 2015

Standard HTML

  • HTML5 is the current HTML standard
  • The doctype tells the browser what version of HTML you're using
  • The HTML standard is a "living standard", which means that the standard will change to incorporate new features and updates.
  • The <meta> tag in the <head> element tells the browser additional information about a web page such as the content type and character encoding.
  • The charset attribute of the <meta> tag tells the browser the character encoding that is used for the web page.
  • Most web pages use the utf-8 encoding for HTML files, and for the <meta> tag charset attribute.
  • The validator at http://html5.validator.nu is a free online service that checks pages for compliance with standards.