Chapter 4

Question 1

HTML tags must be

Answer 1

lowercase

Question 2

Space inserted to make a document more readable is called

Answer 2

white space

Question 3

The <p> </p> tags indicate the beginning and end of a

Answer 3

paragraph

Question 4

The attribute specifying a blue background is

Answer 4

style=”background-color:blue”

Question 5

The ../ notation in a relative path of hypertext reference means to

Answer 5

open the parent folder

Question 6

To place an image on the right side of the window with the text filling the area to the left of the image, the tag would need to look like

Answer 6

<img></img>

Question 7

The dimensions for an image on a web page

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are set using the width and height attributes

Question 8

Betsy created some nested tags as displayed here: <p><b><i>Rock On!</i></b></p>. Did she nest the tags appropriately?

Answer 8

Yes, the tags are nested correctly

Question 9

What tags are required for an HTML page?

Answer 9

html, head, body

Question 10

If you want to display an image without any text around it, you should nest it inside of which tag(s)?

Answer 10

<p>
</p>

Question 11

The _____ tag is a way to get more than one consecutive space in a line of a web page.

Answer 11

<pre>
</pre>

Question 12

_____ tags are tags between other tags.

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nested

Question 13

Specifications inside a tag are called

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attributes

Question 14

The src in an image tag stands for

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source

Question 15

To put the 10 greatest inventions of all time, in order, on a web page, you should use a(n)

Answer 15

ordered list <ol></ol>

Question 16

____ is the main language that defines how a web page should look.

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Hypertext Markup Langauge version 5 (HTLML)

Question 17

_____ is the tag for the heading that is the largest and the darkest.

Answer 17

<h1>Heading</h1>

Question 18

HTML ____ white space

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ignores

Question 19

_____separates the content from the border.

Answer 19

padding

Question 20

Explain why you should learn HTML if authoring tools will do the work for you. Give other examples of where you are expected to learn something when there are tools available that will do the work.

Answer 20

To learn how it is structured for flexible display. For concept understanding.

Question 21

How can you check if your HTML and CSS files display correctly? How often should you check? Why?

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You can check by putting the HTML in a validator to check the actual code or running the HTML to see what the page consists of. You should check for every new code you add to made sure that each part is correct.

Question 22

Indicate the hyperlink reference and the anchor text in this anchor tag. Then break down the hyperlink reference into the protocol, domain, path, and file name. <a> National Air and Space Museum</a>.

Answer 22

The hyperlink is http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/, the anchor text is National Air and Space Museum, the protocol is http://, the domain is www.nasm.si.edu, the path is /museum, and there is no file name given, which means it defaults to index.html.

Question 23

Explain in detail what problems Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) solve.

Answer 23

When large websites added fonts and color information to every Web page, it became a long and expensive process. CSS was created to remove style formatting from an HTML page.

Question 24

What does “the closest specification wins” mean? Give a detailed example in your answer.

Answer 24

The style information closest to the text will be used; the style of a page overrides the style of an external file

Question 25

Why is it a bad idea to write an entire HTML document before loading it in a web browser?

Answer 25

Large blocks of untested coding usually contain many errors that are hard to find