Test your skills: Advanced HTML text

The aim of this skill test is to assess whether you understand how to use lesser-known HTML elements to mark up advanced semantic features.

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Task 1

In this task, we want you to turn the provided animals and their definitions into a description list.

The finished example should look like this:

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Task 2

In this task, we want you to add some semantics to the provided HTML as follows:

  • Turn the second paragraph into a block-level quote, and semantically indicate that the quote is taken from Accessibility.
  • Semantically mark up "HTML" and "CSS" as acronyms, providing expansions as tooltips.
  • Use subscript and superscript to provide correct semantics for the chemical formulae and dates, and make them display correctly.
  • Semantically associate machine-readable dates with the dates in the text.

The finished example should look like this:

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