Chapter 24 - HTML and CSS Flashcards
HTML
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the script/language that web pages are written in - describing the content and structure of the web page which a browser can interpret/present to the viewer
CSS
CSS is a scripting language similiar to HTML that is used to describe the layout and styles of a web page - styles can be applied to existing HTML elements
HTML element
<p> Something </p>
Opening tag/closing tag
Opening tag: <p>
Closing tag: </p>
HTML attribute
specifies various additional properties to the existing HTML element
<html>
</html>
All code within these tags is interpreted as HTML
<body>
</body>
Defines the content in the main browser content area
<head>
</head>
Defines the tab/window heading area
<title>
</title>
Defines the text that appears within the tab/window heading area
<h1>, <h2>, <h3>
</h3></h2></h1>
Heading styles in decreasing sizes
<p>
</p>
A paragraph seperated with a line space above and below
<img></img>
alt
Self closing image tag with parameters
<img src = location, width=”x”,height = “y”>
If image is unavailable, alt signifies alternative text that will show
<a></a>
Anchor tag defining a hyperlink with location parameter
<a> Link text </a>
<ol>,<ul>
</ul></ol>
Defines an ordered (numbered) or unordered (bulleted) list
<li>
</li>
Defines an individual list item within either a numbered or bulleted list
