exam review module 7 Flashcards
HTML
Hypertext markup language
WYSIWYG editor
Microsoft word - what you see is what you get
paired tags
¥ Opening tags look like this:
¥ Closing tags look like this:
¥ These tags surround they content they affect (almost like quotation marks).
¥ Paired tags must be nested. ex:
This is proper: …………….
This is not proper:……………. (because is within and .
what is an example of a non paired tag
<hr></hr>
- for horizontal lines
tells the web browser that this is an HTML doc.
- not an HTML tag, but rather a larger standard that’s used to identify between different languages
you always start an HTML page with .
The header () section specifies extra info about the doc, but doesn’t specify the content.
The main web content is made up within the ().
This displays the name of the webpage in the title bar of a web browser.
what are the 5 tags that your HTML doc should contain
, , , ,
<p></p>
a paired tag
used to break paragraphs
adding whitespace
vertical space = <p>
</p>
<br></br>
line break
gives smaller vertical space between lines compared to <p>
</p>
add space between words
 
ex: bigspace.
gives:
This is an example of a big space.
special character
starts with an ampersand “&” and ends with a semi’colon
how do you display an Ampersand “&”
&
less than (because you can use angle brackets to display less than or greater than)
<
greater than (because you can use angle brackets to display less than or greater than)
>
header tags
<h1>, <h2> .... etc.
used to identify sections within a document </h2></h1>
attribute
contain additional information to control the behaviour of the tag.