Help me get a grasp on HTML

[Autocratic]

I figure this is the forum for this.

I have a really loose understanding of HTML, and an internship I applied for is going to require I gain a little more experience.

Does anyone have any suggestions (can be a book, website, whatever) for getting a basic foundation of HTML knowledge?

[erbbysam]

http://htmlgoodies.com/ is decent... if you go to any book store there going to be 10+ books which will all work for ya also... generally it's best to learn by actually attempting to create your own sites.

[Kowalski]

Remember that web programming is like cooking. You need to add specific amounts of different ingredients to get the finished product. HTML is used for structure, CSS is used for styling, Javascript is used for interaction, php is used for services.

Basically what I'm trying to say is, don't put the styling in the HTML. For example, if you want to color the background of a page, it should be done in a style sheet, and not in the html. A lot of people don't understand this, and it leads to inefficient websites.

There are a ton of books/sites available. Some good sites are:

w3schools.com
and
w3.org

[SamIAm]

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generally it's best to learn by actually attempting to create your own sites.

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Agreed. I think most people learned by wanting to make some page, and then stealing code from the interweb.

I'm sure there's html I don't know, just because I haven't had to steal it from anybody yet.

[PokerImprov]

You will be surprised how much you learn from stealing code from websites. Now, some of the nicer websites will be using a lot of javascript or php that you wont be able to copy.

But practice makes perfect. You can create the same page (appearence) 10 different ways. Its just how you organize it that is up to you.