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| List items should only be put in ordered and unordered lists. |
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| Only the 'li' element is allowed in teh 'ul' and 'ol' elements. Why would you want to put anything other than a list item in an unordered or ordered list anyway? |
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| Nest inlines elements in other inline elements carefully. |
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| while you can nest just about any inline element in another, there are a couple of case that don't make sense. Never nest an 'a' element inside another 'a' element because that wouldb e too confusing for our visitors. Also, empty elements like 'img' provide no way to nest other inline elements within them. |
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| The 'blockquote' element requires one or more block elements inside it. |
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Definition
| While it's common to see text directly inside a block quote, that isn't up to code. Please always put your text and inline elements inside block elements before adding them to 'blockquote'. |
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| Put whatever you want in a list item. |
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| You can put text, inline elements, or block elements inside your list items! |
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| Keep block elements out of the 'p' element. |
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Definition
| Paragraphs are for text, so keep block elements out of the paragraphs. Of course, it is perfectly fine to use all the inline elements you want in them ('em', 'a', 'strong', 'img', 'q', and so on.) |
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| Always start each page with a DOCTYPE, but following that, the 'html' element must always be the root element of your Web page. |
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| So, after the DOCTYPE, the 'html' tage will start your page and the '/html' tag should end it, with everything else in your page nested inside. |
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| Only the 'head' and 'body' elements can go directly inside your 'html' element. |
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| This means that every other element must go inside the 'head' or the 'body' element. |
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| Always give your 'head' element a 'title' element. |
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Definition
| Failure to do so will result in HTML that isn't compliant. The 'head' element is the only place you should put your 'title', 'meta', and 'style' elements. |
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| You can put only block elements ('h1', 'h2'...'h6', 'p', 'blockquote', and so on) directly inside you 'body' element. |
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| All inline elements and text need to be inside another block element before they can go in the 'body' element. |
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| The only things you can put in an inline element are text and other inline elements. |
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| Block elements are not allowed under any circumstance. |
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