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HTML Links and Anchor Tags: href, target, and Jumping to a Section

Every clickable link in HTML, whether it points to another website, another page on your own site, or a specific spot further down the same page, star...

•November 4, 2020

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Links

If you want to learn how to create links to external sites, links to internal pages or even create a navigation section, this video is for you!

•November 4, 2020

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HTML Images: The img Tag, Alt Text, and File Paths Explained

Images go in with a single tag, <img>, and the only thing that changes based on where the image actually lives is one attribute: src. Point src at a f...

•November 3, 2020

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HTML Ordered and Unordered Lists: ul, ol, and li Explained

HTML gives you two kinds of lists, and the choice between them comes down to one question: does the order matter? A grocery list doesn't care what ord...

•November 1, 2020

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Quick Tips

How to Take Full Page Screenshots in Google Chrome (No Extension)

Chrome can capture a full-page screenshot, no extension required. Open DevTools, hit Cmd+Shift+P (Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows), type "screenshot," and pic...

•October 31, 2020

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HTML Text Tags: Paragraphs, Line Breaks, Bold, and Italic

A word processor formats text with a toolbar. HTML formats text with tags: <p> for a paragraph, <br> for a single line break, and a handful of tags fo...

•October 31, 2020

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HTML Headings: How to Use h1 Through h6

HTML gives you six heading tags, <h1> through <h6>. <h1> is the top-level title of the page and <h6> is the lowest sub-level. They do two jobs at once...

•October 30, 2020

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Quick Tips

How to Fix a Git Commit Message (Amend, Rebase, and Force-Push Safely)

TL;DR: Most recent commit: git commit --amend. An older one: git rebase -i HEAD~N, change pick to reword on that commit. Already pushed: git push --fo...

•October 30, 2020

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HTML Paragraphs and Spacing

In this video, we talk about paragraph tags — <p>, break tags — <br> and non-breaking space entities —  . We’re just diving into actual elements...

•October 29, 2020

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HTML Head Tags: title, meta charset, and viewport Explained

<head> is where a page keeps the parts that never show up on screen but still shape how the page works: the tab title, the character set, how the page...

•October 28, 2020

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