learning by heart?

[RivkaS]

I would like to know how most of you learned or learn the tags - I am a language person, so I am used to learn vocabulary by heart and it helps me to know what a short form stands for to remember it.Do other ppl do the same or do you write trial files until you know them by heart without further effort?

[Synook]

I just wrote my pages and didn't focus on remembering, and slowly I just learnt the tags I needed I still find that sometimes I need to look up the finer points of some tags like <fieldset>

[Kingy]

I tend to kind of speed learn it to get an idea and I find then putting things into practice after helps me to learn it in general.I don't like to sit there and do nothing until 100% of all the tags are in my head. Be productive and learn at the same time yes?

[aspnetguy]

Over time as you code more you just remember things whether to are intentionally trying to. I am slowly starting to remember more and more of the PHP functions but I still have ot look things up quite often.

[Jonas]

Well, for html a lot of it is pretty straightforward, especially the formatting and simple structure tags:<b> - Bold<i> - Italicized<u> - Underlined<p> - Paragraph<div> - Division (section)<h#> - Header(replace # with 1-6)<abbr> - Abbreviation<br> - (line)Break<em> - Emphasized<hr> - Horizontal Rule<img> - Imageetc.

[jesh]

I can't imagine going through the tag list and memorizing all of the available tags. Mainly this is because you're not going to be using all of them in the beginning. Depending on the style you acquire, you'll probably only use a dozen or so tags 95% of the time.It seems I, like the rest of the respondents here, just jump right in with the references by our side and start writing code. After awhile you start looking at the reference less and less.

[RivkaS]

Okay - thanks all - but you will not laugh when it looks funny, k?

[spoonraker]

I find that I can read a book, look at an example, or listen to somebody talk about how to write code and follow it completely. Then when it comes time to actually write it....whoops I'm unsure about everything lol. Like others have said, just make sure you have your reference materials ready, because you will be looking stuff up. Gradually as you write code and use thins more and more you will just stop having to look things up.

[Guest FirefoxRocks]

I remember a lot of tags just by implementing them in my site. You tend to use a larger variety of tags when designing sites that strive for accessibility standards, especially if I'm just even trying to meet WAI Priority 2.I do occasionally refer to W3Schools and such, but I find that I know most of the XHTML and CSS tags/properties/selectors and I refer quite often for JavaScript and PHP, as well as MySQL sometimes.