Anatomy of HTML

Question 1

What does HTML stand for?

Answer 1

Hyper Text Markup Language

Question 2

What does HTML stand for?

Answer 2

Hyper Text Markup Language

Question 3

What’s a good way to think about HTML?

Answer 3

You take content and wrap it in the appropriate tags.

Question 4

What is an Element?

Answer 4

An HTML element usually consists of some content (could be plain text or additional HTML elements) wrapped by opening and closing tags.
Ex: <div></div>

<a></a>

there are more.

Question 5

What is a tag?

Answer 5

A tag encapsulates an element.
Ex :< (opening tag)
Ex: > (closing tag)

Question 6

What is an opening tag?

Question 7

What is a closing tag?

Answer 7

>

Question 8

What’s a good way to think about HTML?

Answer 8

You take content and wrap it in the appropriate tags.

Question 9

What is an Element?

Answer 9

An HTML element usually consists of some content (could be plain text or additional HTML elements) wrapped by opening and closing tags.
Ex: <div></div>

<a></a>

there are more.

Question 10

What is a tag?

Answer 10

A tag encapsulates an element.
Ex :< (opening tag)
Ex: > (closing tag)

Question 11

What is an opening tag?

Question 12

What is a closing tag?

Answer 12

>

Question 13

What are self-closing element?

Answer 13

While most elements need op/cl tags, self-closing elements do not.
Ex: <img></img>
Coded out ex: p>This paragraph has an image: <img></img>

or

Ex: <br></br>
This element just inserts a line in the code document

Question 14

What are attributes?

Answer 14

Attributes are for setting properties on an HTML element.

ex:

<h2>Favorite Songs</h2>

Playlist 1 is the attribute I’ve given to this level 2 headig

Question 15

What do HTML attributes look like?

Answer 15

HTML attributes consist of a name (e.g., href) and a value enclosed in quotes (e.g., “https://www.somewhere.com”).

Question 16

What are examples of attributes:

Answer 16

These are a few:

href, id, class

Question 17

Can attributes be used on all elements?

Answer 17

No -BUT they can be used on most of them.
Especially attributes Class and ID, they are very user friendly, However there are some elements that will not take attributes of any kind.

Question 18

What Elements will not accept Attributes?

Answer 18

,

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Question 19

What does an HTML document do? (1/2)

Answer 19

An HTML document specifies each and every one of its elements. These can be visible elements (paragraphs and images) or ones that human users never see (for instance, elements appearing in the head of the document).

Question 20

What is commenting out code?

Answer 20

Developers commonly need to add what are called comments to code. A code comment is a line of text that is used to document some feature or oddity of a given piece of code for fellow project collaborators.

Question 21

What does the HTML Elemental Hierarchy usually look like?

Answer 21

SEE Tlesson 2.1 for hierarchal diagram.

Question 22

What are Heading Elements>

Answer 22

They are used to establish information hierarchy.

ex: <h1>, <h2>, <h3>,<h4>,<h5>
</h5></h4></h3></h2></h1>

Question 23

Can i use H1 more than once?

Answer 23

Can you, technically yes but should you? NOOOOO.

Each HTML document should have only one <h1>header element just like there should on be one element.</h1>

Question 24

Is it okay to skip around with heading levels in the HTML document?

Answer 24

No. You should go in progressive order, <h1> to <h5>
You can use heading levels <h2> to <h5> repeatedly however.
Remember, <h1> should on be used one per HTML document. </h1></h5></h2></h5></h1>

Question 25

What is default styling when talking about HTML?

Answer 25

Each browser will have its own internal styling code, or default styling.

If the HTML document does not include specific CSS code of how you want the webpage to appear, the webpage will default to the default styling,.

Question 26

Is commented code rendered on the webpage?

Answer 26

NO. Commenting out code is a common way of temporarily disabling code, often times for the purpose of debugging or leaving someother necessary info a team member may need

Question 27

Should I comment code a lot?

Answer 27

Not a lot. Your code should be as clear and concise as possible so that anybody coming after you could understand your work. If there really is something that cannot be communicated via the code, then comment

Debugging is a different matter though. .

Question 28

What’s the Windows and Mac Shortcuts for Commenting code?

Answer 28

The Sublime Text keyboard shortcut for commenting is Mac:
⌘ + /
and
Win: Ctrl + /.

If you type this shortcut while the cursor is on an existing line of code, or if you’ve highlighted one or more lines of code and type the shortcut, that code will be commented out