HTML

Question 1

Where do you put non-visible content about the HTML document?

Answer 1

Within the head element

Question 2

Where do you put visible content about the HTML document?

Answer 2

Within the body element

Question 3

Where do the head and body tags go in a valid HTML document?

Answer 3

Within the html element

Question 4

What is the purpose of a !DOCTYPE declaration?

Answer 4

To tell the browser which version of HTML the document is using

Question 5

Five examples of HTML element tags

Answer 5

There’s a fuck-ton. List 5

Question 6

What is the purpose of HTML attributes?

Answer 6

Provide additional information for the element

Question 7

Give an example of an HTML entity (escape character)

Answer 7

e.g. copyright, trademark, yen, euros, etc

Question 8

How do block-level elements affect the document flow?

Answer 8

They start a new line and will take up the entire width of its container

Question 9

How do inline elements affect the document flow?

Answer 9

They stay within its line and only take up as much space as they need. Trying to adjust its height/width does nothing

Question 10

What are the default width and height of a block-level element?

Answer 10

block elements take up the entire width of its container while the height is auto (takes only as much as it needs)

Question 11

What are the default width and height of an inline element?

Answer 11

inline elements only take up as much height/width as it needs (aka auto)

Question 12

What is the difference between an ordered list and an unordered list?

Answer 12

ordered lists are numbered (or alphabetized, roman numbers, etc)

unordered lists are bullet points

Question 13

Is an HTML list a block element or an inline element

Answer 13

lists are block elements as well as their list items

Question 14

What HTML tag is used to link to another website?

Answer 14

the anchor tag (a) using the attribute href=url

Question 15

What is an absolute URL?

Answer 15

a URL that points outside of our own site/computer. Usually starts with an https:// or http://

Question 16

What is a relative URL?

Answer 16

URL that points to a file within our own site/system

Question 17

How do you indicate relative link to a parent directory?

Answer 17

../file-name.html

Question 18

How do you indicate the relative link to a child directory?

Answer 18

child-directory/file-name.html

Question 19

How do you indicate the relative link to a grandparent directory?

Answer 19

../../file-name.html

Question 20

How do you indicate the relative link to same directory?

Answer 20

file-name.html

Question 21

What is the purpose of an HTML form element?

Answer 21

To collect user input as well as containing all form elements

Question 22

Give five examples of form control elements

Answer 22

input
select
label
textarea
fieldset
legend

Question 23

Give three examples of type attributes for HTML input elements

Answer 23

text, password, radio, checkbox, submit

Question 24

Is an HTML input element a block element or an inline element?

Answer 24

inline

Question 25

What are the six primary HTML table elements?

Answer 25

table
thead
tbody
th
tr
td

Question 26

What purpose do thead and tbody elements serve?

Answer 26

thead: defines the heads of the columns in the table
tbody: contains rows of the table which comprises of the body of the table

Question 27

Give two examples of data that would lend itself well to being displayed in a table.

Answer 27

grades, stocks, finances, statistics

tabular data