Validate Your Code
Last but not least make a habit to validate your HTML code frequently. Validating your code is a great piece of work and helps in finding difficult issues. You can download the W3C markup validation or Firefox developers toolbar to validate your site by URL. Validators are very helpful in detecting errors and resolving them.
Programming For Beginners: 10 Best HTML Coding Practices You Must Know
HTML is one of the easiest things to learn in programming. Most of the newbies and even kids step into programming picking up HTML. They learn they build some web pages but a lot of developers even experienced ones make some silly mistakes while writing the code for the front end. Making these silly mistakes not only annoys other developers (when they need to make some changes) but also hurts your main site and drives the end-user away. We are going to mention some common and best practices that you should follow to write clean and clear HTML code.
Following some common coding practices makes debugging easier and saves a lot of time. It also helps in search engine optimization as well.
Table of Content
- 1. Use Proper Document Structure With Doctype
- 2. Close the Tags
- 3. Write Tags in Lowercase
- 4. Add Image Attributes
- 5. Avoid Using Inline Styles
- 6. Use a Meaningful Title and Descriptive Meta Tags
- 7. Use Heading Elements Wisely
- 8. Always Use the Right HTML Elements
- 9. Proper Use of Indentation
- 10. Validate Your Code