ICT - HTML AND CSS BOOT CAMP
ICT - HTML AND CSS BOOT CAMP
For Cambridge IGCSE ICT (0417) Paper 3 – Website Authoring, the HTML and CSS section focuses on creating and styling web pages using standard HTML and CSS. The Paper 3 assessment itself covers Spreadsheets and Website Authoring.
HTML (Website Authoring)
- HTML document structure (
<!DOCTYPE>,<html>,<head>,<body>) - Page title and metadata (
<title>,<meta charset>, viewport, author, keywords, description) - Headings (
<h1>–<h6>) - Paragraphs and line breaks
- Text formatting (bold, italic, superscript, subscript)
- Lists (ordered, unordered, nested)
- Hyperlinks
- Relative and absolute paths
- Email links
- Bookmarks (anchors)
- Images
- Insert images
- Alternative text (
alt) - Width and height
- Tables
- Rows, columns, headers
- Cell spacing and padding
- Borders
- Rowspan and colspan
- Audio and video embedding
- Comments in HTML
- Using relative file paths throughout the website
CSS (Stylesheets)
- Linking an external stylesheet
- Inline styles
- CSS syntax (selector, property, value)
- Styling:
- Body
- Headings (
h1,h2,h3) - Paragraphs (
p) - Lists (
li) - Tables (
table,tr,th,td) - Font properties
- Font family
- Size
- Colour
- Bold and italic
- Text alignment
- Backgrounds
- Colours
- Background images
- Borders
- Colour
- Thickness
- Visible/invisible
- Border collapse
- Padding and spacing
- Horizontal and vertical alignment
- CSS classes
- CSS comments
- Understanding the difference between inline styles and external stylesheets, and how CSS cascading works