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LESSON 13

13 Structuring a Page with HTML5

with HTML5

Once you’ve designed a few websites, you begin to notice a pattern. Most

web pages have a similar structure, with a header, footer, navigation, and

sections. The authors of the HTML5 specification added support for addi-

tional structural tags to make it easier for authors to create web pages

with a tag structure that matches the meaning behind those tags. Most of

the new tags in HTML5 are new structural elements.

This lesson will cover the following topics:

n A review of how page layout approaches have evolved over the his-

tory of HTML

n How to lay out a page using HTML5 tags

n An overview of the new structural tags in HTML5

n How the browser creates an outline of a web page

n How to use HTML5 scripts that don’t yet provide HTML5 support