Styles and scripts can be placed directly in the head of the document or even inline with the element they are modifying, but neither are good practice. It would be better to link to external scripts and/or style sheets.
However, if you must place them in the document itself, the following shows where we want to place our script(s) and style(s). Typically this is done directly after the title tag.
The style tag is used to enclose all the styles we want to place in the head of our document. Style chunks like this can only be placed in the head of the document.
Similarly, the script tag is used to enclose all our scripts. Typically they are placed in the head of the document, but can be placed anywhere in the head or even body of the document if necessary.
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="description" content="Free Web Tutorials">
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL">
<meta name="author" content="1SMARTchicken">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Advanced HTML Template</title>
<!-- styles -->
<style>
#primary {
color: red;
font-size: 18px;
}
#secondary {
margin-top: 35px;
}
</style>
<!-- scripts -->
<script>
function myFunction() {
var element = document.getElementById('myDIV');
element.classList.add('mystyle');
}
</script>
</head>
Placing a Script in the Body
Scripts can also be placed just before the closing /body tag which can speed up the page load time because the page can first render before applying the scripts.
<!-- scripts -->
<script>
function myFunction() {
var element = document.getElementById('myDIV');
element.classList.add('mystyle');
}
</script>
<noscript>Sorry, your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>
</body>
</html>
script can be placed anywhere in the body of the page. If doing so, it is good practice to place a noscript tag just after the script tag for browsers that cannot run JavaScript for some reason.
Inline Styles
Styles can also be placed directly within an element using the style tag.
It would be rare that you would want to do something like this since it would override any other rules you have in the head or in an external style sheet. This would also be difficult to locate and change styles if you did this throughout a page, or worse yet, a complete site.
<body>
<h1 style="color:green;">This heading is green</h1>
<p style="color:blue;">This paragraph is blue.</p>
</body>
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HTML NOTES:
- In our HTML section the term “tag” and “element” are often used interchangeably to refer to both the tag used to create a page element and the element created by the tag (
ptag =pelement = paragraph on the page) - HTML5 is not case sensitive; so
Pis the same asp,ÂH1is the same ash1 - Global attributes can be used with all HTML tags and are therefore not mentioned on every tag page
- To write clean, readable HTML code, it is best to use indentation whereas elements within elements are indented (tabbed or spaces) to create something that looks like a project outline
- The browser will automatically remove any extra spaces and lines in your HTML code when the page is displayed
- Double quotes or single quotes can be used around HTML attribute values, but when the attribute value itself contains one form of quote, it will be necessary to use the other around the attribute
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