Family lines

An activity to help reinforce indentation best practices & the understanding of parent-child relationships in HTML.

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Family lines

What & why

When learning HTML, the parent-child relationships of the elements is critical to good structure & code understanding.

We can use code indentation to help us distinguish the parent-child relationships in HTML and reinforce the structure of our code.

Indentation is a memory aid to find parent & child relationships.

Set up

  1. Form into pairs
  2. Download the files
  3. Print “family-lines.pdf” and draw on the paper
    Or do the whole thing digitally

Instructions

  1. Draw lines to match the opening & closing tags
  2. Answer questions about family relationships

(Example on the next screen.)

  1. Parent of article#paul?
  2. Sibling of article#paul?
  3. Child of article#paul?
HTML 
<h1>Skywalkers</h1>

<main id="shmi">
<article id="vader">
<ol id="leia">
<li id="jaina"></li>
<li id="jacen"></li>
<li id="anakin"></li>
</ol>
<strong id="luke"></strong>
</article>
</main>

1. Parent of article#vader?

2. Sibling of li#jacen?

3. Sibling of strong#luke?

4. Great-grandparent of li#anakin?

HTML 
<h1>Weasleys</h1>

<ol id="molly">
  <li id="bill"></li>
  <li id="charlie"></li>
  <li id="percy"></li>
  <li id="fred"></li>
  <li id="george"></li>
  <li id="ron">
    <span id="rose"></span>
    <span id="hugo"></span>
  </li>
  <li id="ginny">
    <span id="james"></span>
    <span id="albus"></span>
    <span id="lily"></span>
  </li>
</ol>

1. Parent of li#ron?

2. Parent of span#albus?

3. Sibling of li#george?

4. Grandchild of ol#molly?

HTML 
<h1>Starks</h1>

      <article id="rickard">
<div id="eddard">
    <strong id="robb"></strong>
<strong id="sansa"></strong>
  <strong id="arya"></strong>
          <strong id="bran"></strong>
  <del id="rickon"></del>
  </div>
          <p id="benjen"></p>
      <div id="lyanna">
<small id="jon"></small>
            </div>
</article>

1. Parent of small#jon?

2. Sibling of strong#arya?

3. Child of div#eddard?

4. Sibling of div#eddard?

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Family lines

An activity to help reinforce indentation best practices & the understanding of parent-child relationships in HTML.