From the course: Editing Ebooks
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Editing HTML
- [Instructor] HTML stands for hypertext markup language, and is the underpinning of ebooks in addition to being the driver of the web. It is both very simple and very powerful. Used precisely, it can format content to be liquid in response to screen size or the rendering engine used. It is the prism through which content is interpreted, formatted, and composed. In an ebook context, HTML is the tagging or structural foundation of a book. Let's have a quick look at some of the pieces of some standard HTML markup. In the example on screen, lines one through nine in the sample are the head elements and declarations, most of which does not get displayed. Line 11 marks the start of content. The various elements like body, section, H one and P follow tagging standards and nesting rules. Elements and sub-elements have a pattern of what is known as parent-child relationships. In this sample, H one and P are children of…
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