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Class Thursday, September 27, 2018

 Today’s goals:

  • Finish your first HTML challenge from yesterday (broken code) and review the code together
  • Finish Progress Report individual meetings
  • Continue learning HTML: Adding videos through iframe code; adding weather stickers; block vs inline elements

 Today’s featured web site:

 Adding Videos to a Webpage

  1. Choose a video to embed onto your page from YouTube
  2. Pick a video, then go to Share, then Embed, and copy the HTML onto your page
  3. What is the iframe tag and why do you think we are using it to embed a video on our webpage? Let’s see https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp

 Adding Weather Stickers

  1. Go to the following site: https://www.accuweather.com/en/free-weather-widgets/current
  2. Let’s create a weather banner for Medford and then grab the code
  3. Let’s copy & paste the code into the first practice webpage we created
  4. What code do you recognize? You should see two HTML tags that you’ve recently learned.
  5. How do you think the banner is able to display the weather (where is the data coming from and how is it being delivered)?

  Block and Inline Elements

  • Block elements take up as much space as they can (the full width of a page or container) and start on a new line (like paragraphs, headlines) while inline elements (the default display) only take up the space they need for the width of their content and don’t start on a new line (like images, links).
  • Let’s look at our practice webpage and identify the block and inline elements: paragraph, link, image, headline, iframe, bullets. What is each one? How can you tell?

 Up Next: Tables

  • Tables are mainly used on webpages to display data and other types of content that might commonly be put into a spreadsheet. You will learn later on this year how to make tables responsive and mobile-friendly.
  • Let’s peek at the code: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_table.asp
  • Tags to know: table row tr and table data td