5 Web Scraping and APIs

Question 1

What is meant by HTML being a “markup” language?

Answer 1

This it includes both the content you see on the screen (the text) along with built in instructions (the markup) for how the browser should show it. These instructions come in tags, which are wrapped in arrow brackets (<>).

Question 2

What does <p> stand for in HTML?

Answer 2

Paragraph

<p>This text is a paragraph.</p>

Question 3

What does <div> stand for in HTML?

Answer 3

this doesn’t really do anything directly, but they’re a way for web designer’s to divide up their HTML however they want to assign classes and ids to particular sections

Question 4

What does <table> stand for in HTML?

Answer 4

tag that specifies the start of a table

Question 5

What does <th> stand for in HTML?

Answer 5

Header in a table

Question 6

What does <tr> stand for in HTML?

Answer 6

Denotes a table row

Question 7

What does <td> stand for in HTML?

Answer 7

Table data

Question 8

What does <a> stand for in HTML?</a>

Answer 8

link, always includes the attribute href, which specifies where the browser should go when you click on it