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Learn about a few new features such as the language attribute in our html tag, the link to our style sheet, and an image tag.
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In the HTML, very few things have changed
from the Publish a Story course.
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However, I've added some special features,
such as the language attribute in our
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HTML tag, the link to our style sheet, and
an image tag.
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Let's break it down.
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In our HTML document, in our opening HTML
tag,
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I've added some more information about our
page.
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I've added the language it's written in,
and in our case, it's written in English.
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While it's not necessary,
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it does help a search engine know what
language the content of your page is.
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This language tag is called an attribute,
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because it adds information to an opening
tag.
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What is an attribute you ask?
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An attribute adds information to a tag.
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For example, in our HTML tag, by adding
the language attribute,
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it is also defining the language our page
is written in.
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The value, put between the quotations
marks,
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gives information about that attribute.
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For our language attribute, the value is
en, for English.
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This tells a browser, or a search engine,
that our website is written in English.
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Inside of our head tag, we have a few new
things.
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Like a link to a Google font, and a link
to our style sheet.
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Here you can see that the link to the
Google font is an external webpage,
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and the style.css is a link right to a
file in our own file tree.
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In the link to our style sheet, you can
see we only need an href and
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a rel attribute.
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The href attribute specifies the path to
the resource.
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Here it's our style.css file, and the rel
attribute is used to define
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the relationship of the current page, to
the thing that we're linking it to.
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Here, the value of our rel attribute,
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tells us the document we're linking to is
a style sheet.
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It's the same up here for our Google
fonts.
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The last new feature I've added to our
HTML page is the image element.
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The image element is used to add an image
within a webpage.
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The src attribute specifies the path to
the image file, and
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in our case, it's just joy.jpg.
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The alt attribute works kind of like a
placeholder.
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The value you put in the alt attribute
will be
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the text displayed if the image doesn't
load or loads incorrectly.
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It'll also be read to anyone using a
screen reader.
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So, it's important information to provide.
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That wraps it up for HTML document.
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Before moving on, let's finish our HTML
lesson with a quiz and
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code challenge on attributes, values, and
the new HTML elements we used.
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In the next video, we'll move into our
style sheet, and
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start styling our web page.
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