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HTML Style Guide

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Formatting

  • Use soft tabs (2 spaces) for indentation
  • Each nested element should be indented once(including the head and body tags)

Bad

<html>
<head>
head content goes here
</head>
<body>
body content goes here
<section>
    <h1>
    heading content goes here
    </h1>
</section>
</body>
</html>

Good

<html>
  <head>
    head content goes here
  </head>
  <body>
    body content goes here
    <section>
      <h1>
        heading content goes here
      </h1>
    </section>
  </body>
</html>

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Whitespace

  • There should be no empty lines in an html file

Bad

<html>
  <head>


    head content goes here
  </head>


  <body>
    body content goes here

    <section>
      <h1>


        heading content goes here
      </h1>

    </section>
  </body>
</html>

Good

<html>
  <head>
    head content goes here
  </head>
  <body>
    body content goes here
    <section>
      <h1>heading content goes here</h1>
    </section>    
  </body>
</html>

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Classes and Ids

  • Class and Id names should be surrounded by double quotes

Bad

<section   class=' section ' id=' section1'>
  section content here
</section>

Good

<section class="section" id="section1">
  section content goes here
</section>

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Keeping Elements on One Line

  • Elements that are 80 characters or less including their content can be kept on one line.
<section>
  This element is longer than 80 characters in length and should be broken
  onto multiple lines.
</section>
  • Pro Tip: The 'Column' number in the bottom left corner of Sublime will tell you how many characters in the cursor is at any given time.

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