thepeej / icebreakers-homepage-html-lab-abp-11-17

The Icebreakers Homepage HTML

Objectives

1. Create a complete page of well-structured HTML!

Instructions

Open index.html in your text editor. You'll see the code that we wrote in the previous lab. In this lab, you're tasked with fleshing out the body of the HTML document with some awesome content, completing the static homepage we've been working on as a template for our forthcoming Icebreakers app.

Inside the body tags and below the header section, create a new main section that will house all of the primary content for our homepage. Within the new main tags, nest a pair of div elements. The first div element should contain an h1 with some text you'd like to use as the main heading on the page. Below the h1, add a p(aragraph) element with some text describing the site. For all of these content elements you're adding, the content doesn't matter. Be creative! The tests will only be checking that the correct elements exist in the correct places.

The second div element should contain two h4 elements and two p elements. The p elements should each contain a single a element with an href that points to # (which we're using as a placeholder since we haven't yet created any other pages that we'd want our links to point at).

Finally, beneath the closing main tag but still within the body, create a footer element that contains a p element.

You can run the tests with this lab via learn. Make sure you save the file before running the test suite. Failing tests will provide helpful error messages that you can use to debug your code — read them closely for hints!

Viewing your work in the browser

While working through these assignments, your general workflow should center on writing code in the text editor and periodically running the test suite in the terminal to check your work.

Another great way to track your progress is to open up the HTML document in your browser and watch how each change you make in the text editor affects the visual layout in the browser. If you're using a local development environment, you can open the HTML file directly in your browser. If you're coding in the Learn IDE, check out this Help Center article that explains how to spin up and connect to a simple remote server.

Once you have the HTML document open in your browser, you can make changes to it in the text editor, save the file, refresh the page in the browser, and see the changes instantly.

Resources

• MDN — HTML basics