What I Want To Learn Next
This is a file for notes to self, when I remember to write them down.
Basically a to-do list of things to look up
- how to indent a list
- how to use the specific small caps fonts that exist.
(If you've ever been impressed by Death's dialogue in the Discworld books, this is how it's done.)
- how to make the header title and the h1 title ˜automagically˜ the same.
I suspect Javascript is the culprit here.
What I've learned, in brief
- This is a list item.
- If you right click on the page, the menu will have developer tools → inspector.
Use that to take a look at any webpage's html.
- Some characters you can't just type in an html document.
You know, like how sometimes spaces get rendered as
%20
?
This includes include important shit like quotation marks.
Luckily people make this information widely availible.
Oh shit I use semicolons in my writing too shit shit shit.
- The UTF-8 character set means that you can use a lot of characters in an html doc without having to know their special code.
But whether or not your editor makes it look funky when you do is probably down to the individual processor.
- html is a way to structure information.
- absolute, relative, and root-relative links.
- thoughtfully construct your folders.
- how to type useful characters without them becoming html.
- Add
target='_blank' rel='noreferrer'
to any link you want opened in a new tab, for security reasons.
Brackets.io
- If you add .html to the end of a file in Brackets, it'll actually highlight all the code in different colors.
It does help by highlighting where different nesting tags are, and marks in red any code typos
However, this means that when using the
code
tag, it highlights the /code
tag in red, unless you properly closed all your tags, which I haven't always done.
But the Brackets software is in active development, and this may have been addressed in the future, so if you don't see this that's probably why.
- Brackets also autocompletes the end tag, which means my cursor isn't always quite where I expected it. I also have to not retype the end tag.
- Giving proper endings to your files in Brackets, and probably other editors, also means it gives your code tabs on its own.
Not sure how I feel about this yet, since I figured out a consistent format for me, eventually.
I just have to get used to it, rather than manually changing it to what I got myself used to.