HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices
- Free to audit
- Paid certificate
- Course certificate
- Intermediate
- 6 weeks
HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices is W3C's intermediate HTML5 course on edX. It goes beyond page structure into what HTML5 added to the web: the simplified HTML5 elements, the audio and video elements, drawing and animating graphics, the HTML5 forms features, and basic APIs such as Web storage and geolocation, all practised through interactive examples. The page asks that you already be comfortable putting together an HTML document, have minimal familiarity with CSS, and know the basics of JavaScript and the DOM, which the course recaps.
edX lists it at intermediate level, self-paced, at six weeks of six to eight hours a week. The audit track is free and gives time-limited access to the material, expiring after the estimated course length according to edX, with no graded assignments or certificate. The verified track is priced at 249 US dollars.
What you’ll learn
- Use the simplified HTML5 structural elements
- Embed and control audio and video with HTML5
- Draw and animate graphics in the browser
- Build forms with the HTML5 form features
- Use basic APIs such as Web storage and geolocation
Who it’s for
Developers who already write basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript and want to use HTML5 multimedia, graphics and APIs; complete beginners should start with HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals.
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