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The most common HTML elements used to structure and organize content are headings and paragraphs.
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Virtual Reality is becoming well known as a form of entertainment, but it's also finding its way into fields like education, industrial design, healthcare and so much more!
How Schools Use Virtual Reality to Improve Education
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The Advantages of VR simulation
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You've learned that HTML
provides structure and
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meaning to content in the form
of tags called markup.
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When you write markup,
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you're telling the browser how
you want to display your content.
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Remember what the page looked like
earlier before we added markup?
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It was one long line of text, and
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that wasn't a very pleasant
reading experience was it?
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Structuring content with HTML,
organizes your content and
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makes your users' reading experience
easier and more enjoyable.
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Books, magazines, and newspapers
organize text using titles, subheadings,
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and paragraphs.
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HTML provides similar elements
to organize blocks of content.
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The most common elements used to structure
content are headings and paragraphs.
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Headings add organization and
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structure to the page by
identifying sections of content.
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So the site we're going to build is
about virtual reality experiences.
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So, to make the text, Experience VR, the
main heading of the site, write an opening
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tag in front of the text and place
the closing tag at the end of the text.
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h1 is a heading element and
the 1 in the tag name means
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that it's a level 1 heading, the main or
most important heading on the page.
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Usually, the first heading
on a web page is a h1.
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It's like the main headline in
a newspaper or magazine article.
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So, when you save the HTML file and
refresh the browser,
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you'll see the text Experience VR
in large bold letters and
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the text outside the h1 element
appears below the heading.
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Now that we've set
the page's main heading,
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let's place the rest of
the text inside a paragraph.
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Paragraphs in HTML are created using
the p tag, so type an opening p
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tag at the start of the text and
place the closing p tag at the end.
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Let's add one more
paragraph below this one.
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Type a set of p tags and write the text,
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Virtual Reality is becoming well
known as a form of entertainment.
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But its also finding its way
into fields like education,
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industrial design,
healthcare, and so much more.
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You can also copy this text from
the teacher's notes of this video.
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I'll save the file, refresh the browser,
and notice how the browser places each
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paragraph on a new line and
adds extra space to the top and
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bottom sides to separate them from
adjacent paragraphs and other content.
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h1 is not the only heading available.
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There are six heading elements in HTML,
h1 through h6.
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Each identifies a new section of content
and represents a different level of
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importance on their page, h1 being
the highs level and h6 the lowest.
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Back in our page,
let's markup a new section of content for
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blog entries using a level 2 heading.
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You define a level 2
heading using the h2 tag.
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So, below the bottom paragraph,
type a set of opening and closing h2 tags,
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and inside, the text, Latest VR Articles.
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I'll give this a save.
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And over in the browser the h1 is
the highest level heading on the page.
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So the browser makes it stand
out from all the other text.
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And an h2 is slightly less important.
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So, the browser displays
it a little smaller.
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Now, from here, you could use an h3
tag to create a smaller heading, and
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that's a subheading of the h2, an h4 tag
for an even smaller heading and so on.
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And if you place all the available
headings next to each other on a page,
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they would look like this.
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From the largest or most important, to the
smallest, or the one of lowest importance.
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I'll go ahead and undo that.
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And now, let's add a couple of blog
entries below the subheading, or the h2.
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We'll use an h3 to mark up the title,
and paragraph tags for the text.
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So, below the h2 I'll
type a set of h3 tags.
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And the text for
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this one will be How Schools Use
Virtual Reality to Improve Education.
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Right below,
I'll add a set of paragraph tags and
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I'll paste in some place holder
text as the paragraph text.
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You can also copy these exact heading and
paragraph
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text snippets from the teacher's notes of
this video or feel free to write your own.
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I'll add one more log entry
right bellow the paragraph,
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again I'll type a set of h3 tags.
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And the text for this one will be
the Advantages of VR Simulation.
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Add a paragraph tag down below.
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And for this text I'll go ahead and
just copy and
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paste in the place holder text from above.
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All right, so
our page is starting to take shape.
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And up next you'll learn about
creating lists with HTML.
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