CSCmidterm4 Flashcards
HTML=
Hypertext Markup Language
XHTML=
entensible Hypertext Markup Language, must be lowercase, we don?t use
What converts HTML
a Browser
Start/Open tag
End/Close tag
Singleton Tag
not paired, e.x. horizontal line
Required Tags
, ,
2 Parts of a Web Page
Head, Body
Head section
beginning material, like title or other info for whol page
Body section
content of page
Needed to write HTML
Browser, Text Editor
Firefox traits
free open source browser
Open Source
program code is publicly available, any programmer can contribute improvements to
Text editor characters
ASCII, normal keyboard characters
Levels of heading tags
, get smaller
White Spaces
spaces inserted in HTML for readability; spaces, tabs, enter; Ignored by Browsers
Preformated information
only white space exception, displayed as appears
Width of line of text
determined by width of the browser window
Escape Symbols
&(followed by abbreviation); , used to show brackets, accents
Accents
&eactue; È