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Common HTML Terms Flashcards

1
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ext description of a graphic that appears before the graphic is loaded into the browser.

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ALT Text

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Used to define a hypertext link.

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Anchor Link

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3
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Less than () symbols used to surround an element to create a tag

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Angle Brackets

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4
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A property of an HTML element used to provide additional instructions to a given HTML tag.

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Attribute

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5
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Links that do not work because the destination has been deleted or the path has been changed.

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Broken Links

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6
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A program used to access and display HTML documents.

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Browser

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7
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A programming standard that defines how programs communicate with each other and with the web server.

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Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

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8
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Another name for an imagemap.

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Clickable Map

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An HTML instruction that tells the browser to turn off a specific feature of an opening tag.

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Closing Tag

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10
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Information added to the code for future reference. The information may include a brief explanation for what a complex code does.

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Comments

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11
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An element that will be obsolete in the future is referred to as

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Deprecated

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12
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Parts (such as text and graphics) of a web document that you want the user to see.

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Document Content

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13
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A specification for a mark-up language.

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Document Type Definition

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14
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The alphabetic name for a computer host mapped to a computer’s numeric IP (Internet Protocol) address.

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Domain Name

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15
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Element of structure of a document(such as body, title, and paragraph).

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Elements

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16
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Those characters that do not appear on the keyboard (i.e., ™ ©, ®, etc.) or characters that have special meaning in HTML (i.e., , &, etc.).

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Entities

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17
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A mechanism that enables a user to supply input to the web page author.

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Forms

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18
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The text that is not specifically related to the content of the webpage and that appears on every webpage is referred to as

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Footer Text

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19
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To divide a web page into independent and scrollable sections.

20
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A robust method for transferring files between computers using TCP/IP.

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

21
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A file format (commonly used for web pages) used for storing image files.

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Graphic Interchange Format (GIF)

22
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A defined area on an image that acts as a hyperlink.

23
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A web scripting language used for creating web page documents.

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

24
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A software that inserts HTML code as you work to create an HTML file.

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HTML Editor

25
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Hypertext that may include multimedia like text, images, sound, and video.

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Hypermedia

26
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A graphic that has clickable areas (or hotspots) defined to allow a user to move to another URL.

27
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Elements those that are supported directly by HTML are known as

28
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A common cross-platform image format that is used on the web.

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Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)

29
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Refers to stop of the current line and continuation to the next line.

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Line Break

30
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Used to connect one document with another document or file.

31
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A copy of a publicly available website.

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Mirror Site

32
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When you place tags within other tags.

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Nested Tags

33
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The act of observing the content of web for some purpose.

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Navigating

34
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An element that won’t necessarily work in the future versions of browsers.

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Obsolete Element

35
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An HTML instruction that tells the browser to turn on the feature and apply it to the document content that follows.

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Opening Tag

36
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Refers to those elements that require the user to take some additional action to see or hear the output of the element. The additional action could consist of clicking or installing of a plug-in.

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Out of Line

37
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A collection of dots that make up a monitor’s display.

38
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A software that automatically explores the web.

39
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A software application that serves requests initiated by client programs.

40
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Indicates that the web document does not use frames or any deprecated elements.

41
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Includes styling syntax (rules) that dictates how your web page will look.

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Stylesheet

42
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Refers to the rules a computer language uses to perform a task.

43
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Refers to a situation in which the rules (or a rule) of the computer language are (is) broken.

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Syntax Error

44
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The HTML code that controls the appearance of an HTML document’s content.

45
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A document defined as such may include deprecated elements and all the new HTML elements. However, the document cannot contain frames.

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Transitional

46
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Moving/sending files to the server

47
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An organization consisting of representatives from member companies and responsible for making rules for the World Wide Web.

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Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)

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