Slide 36 - HTML Best Practices to start out with § Session 01 - The Internet, World Wide Web, Web Browsers, Web Sites, and HTML

HTML Best Practices to start out with

Use start and end tags, even if optional
Lower case element and attribute names
Use quotes around attribute values

These best practices essentially follow the "XML" syntax rules for HTML5

XML Syntax

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html lang="en">
  <head>
      <title>My Document</title>
      <meta charset="utf-8" />
  </head>
  <body>
      <h1>My Document</h1>
      <ul>
          <li>coffee</li>
          <li>tea</li>
      </ul>
      <img src="images/mug.jpg" alt="mug" />
  </body>
  </html>

SGML/HTML Syntax

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <HEAD>
      <TITLE>My Document</TITLE>
      <META CHARSET=utf-8 >
  <BODY>
      <H1>My Document</H1>
      <UL>
          <LI>coffee
          <LI>tea
      </UL>
      <IMG SRC=images/mug.jpg ALT=Mug >