Community Forum: Within the context of this exercise 323 which defines HTML, why would raw text need a structure? Doesn’t it already have a grammatically defined structure?

 Q)Within the context of this exercise 323 which defines HTML, why would raw text need a structure? Doesn’t it already have a grammatically defined structure?

Answer

While raw text might have a grammatically defined structure, this isn’t the type of structure we are referring to here. By carefully marking up the contents of a page, developers can create a hierarchy of information which serves several purposes:

• it allows users scanning a site to quickly pick out the most important ideas.
• it helps visually impaired users navigate the content of a page using special software.
• it helps search engines pick out important keywords that might otherwise get lost in a sea of text.

what does raw text mean ??

This question is basically asking: why do I have to put in any code if I just want it to be what laymen would refer to as “regular” text (so, without anything fancy).

The answer is in two parts saying: 1) you need code for everything and 2) why exactly that is.

Hope that helps!

Raw text is the text that you are putting onto the page, which needs a structure because that tells it where to go - headings, indentations, subheadings, etc. are all built by the structure that you put the raw text into.

Context like headings and paragraphs and stuff in that nature.