Introduction to HTML and CSS 2 day training course from £590.00 plus VAT

Classroom - per delegate	£695.00 plus VAT £834.00 inc VAT	In person at one of our UK locations, max 10 delegates
In Person one on one course	£1,190.00 plus VAT £1,428.00 inc VAT	In person at one of our UK locations, no other delegates - click here for details
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Remote live public course	£590.00 plus VAT £708.00 inc VAT	Remotely accessed over the internet, max 6 delegates - click here for details
Remote live one on one course	£790.00 plus VAT £948.00 inc VAT	Remotely accessed over the internet, no other delegates - click here for details

Synopsis

This HTML and CSS training course will give you an introduction to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - the language of the world wide web.

You will learn how to write your own web pages and to style them using Cascading Stylesheets (CSS).

Duration

2 days

Cost

See options at top of the page

Prerequisites

There are no prerequsites for this course

Detailed course contents

Introducing HTML

What is HTML?
HTML files
HTML and the internet
HTML and browsers
Common browsers
HTML versions

HTML page structure

HTML page structure
The document type declaration
Document type settings
HTML 4.01 versions
New DTD in HTML5
Validating your HTML
The header section
The contents of the page
Writing an HTML page
What is an element?
The html, head and body elements
Contents of the head element
The title element
Contents of the body element
More on Headings
The p element - paragraphs
Spaces and tabs in text
Emphasising text within paragraphs
Adding a strong emphasis
b and i elements
Line Breaks
Adding comments to HTML
Special characters in HTML

Image maps

Image maps
Creating image maps
The map element
The area sub-elements
The shape attribute
The coords attribute
Map element in a separate file

HTML logical elements

Addresses
Abbreviations and acronyms
Defining terms and phrases
Quotations
The Meta element (Meta tags)
Setting the content type
Specifying the character set
New charset attribute in HTML5

Styling your HTML

Styling your HTML
What is CSS?
Internal style sheets
Specifying styles in a separate file
CSS rules
CSS rules for multiple elements
Declaring Styles Inline
Background colour
Colours
3 digit hex values
Functional notation
Functional notation using percentages
Colour names
Background images
Formatting text: colour
Formatting text: alignment
Formatting text: decoration
Formatting text: indentation
Formatting text: text transformation
Fonts
Generic font families
Font style and weight
Font size
Deprecated tags and attributes

More CSS

Reference by ID
Reference by class
Being even more specific
Pseudo-classes
Block and inline elements
The CSS display property
div and span
New in HTML5: section and article

Lists

Lists
Ordered lists
Declaring an ordered list
Unordered lists
Declaring an unordered list
Definition lists
Declaring a definition list
Displaying lists
Formatting lists

The box model

The box model
Borders
Border styles
Border width and colour
Shorthand border definition
Setting individual borders
Padding
Padding individual sides of an element
Margins
Setting individual margins
Using margins to centre a block element
Height and width
The full size of the element
The full size of the element – IE bug
Visibility
Positioning
Static positioning
Fixed positioning
Relative positioning
Absolute positioning
The z-index property
Float

HTML Tables

Data vs layout tables
Example: Using a table to display data
Defining a table
Add a caption and summary to tables
Column widths
colspan and rowspan
Formatting table data

HTML Forms

What are HTML forms?
HTML form example
The input element
New input type values in HTML5
New input attribute in HTML5: autocomplete
New input attribute in HTML5: required
New input attribute in HTML5: placeholder
Password fields
Text areas
Radio buttons
Checkboxes
Hidden fields
Submit buttons
Reset buttons
Labelling form elements
A form’s action
Form submission methods

XHTML

XHTML
XHTML: differences from HTML 4.01
XHTML DOCTYPE declaration
Changes to document prologue

Next steps

Using JavaScript for form validation

Availability

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FAQs

What are the course times?
- Courses start at 9:30am start on the first day of your course. Subsequent days will usually start 30 minutes earlier but check with your instructor. The course will end by 4:30am each day.
Do I need to bring anything?
- No, everything is provided, you only have to bring yourself.
How can I pay?
- Once you have booked you will receive a confirmation email, and shortly after that, an invoice. For in-person public and private courses the invoice is payable within 30 days, for online courses payment is required 7 days before the start of the course. Payment can be made by bank transfer (BACS etc), cheque or card.
Is there a dress code?
- No, there is no dress code for any of our courses.
Are refreshments provided?
- At our in-person courses, mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshments will be provided. Lunch is not provided but all our venues are in central locations.
What is the cancellation policy?
- Cancellations received within 7 days of making your booking or more than 21 days before the scheduled start date will not incur any charge. For cancellations received between 7 and 21 days before the scheduled start date a 50 percent charge will apply. For cancellations received less than 7 days before the scheduled start date a 100 percent charge will apply. For online courses where you have already been sent course materials, any refund is conditional on the return of the materials at your own expense.