HTML

Question 1

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

Answer 1

In the head element. This is also where metadata is stored.

Question 2

Where do you put visible content about the HTML document?

Answer 2

In the body element.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

They go in the html element. Head comes before body.

Question 4

What is the purpose of a !DOCTYPE declaration?

Answer 4

To tell the browser which version of html to use

Question 5

Give five examples of HTML element tags.

Answer 5

html, head, title, body, div, h1, p, etc.

Question 6

What is the purpose of HTML attributes?

Answer 6

To provide additional information about the contents of an element. Located in the opening tag of the element.

Question 7

Give an example of an HTML entity (escape character).

Answer 7

Left angled bracket, ampersand, quotation marks, copyright, registered trademark

Question 8

How do block-level elements affect the document flow?

Answer 8

They always appear on a new line and takes up the full width available.

Question 9

How do inline elements affect the document flow?

Answer 9

They only occupy the space bounded by the tags defining the element, instead of breaking the flow of the content.

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Width = auto (entire horizontal space of its parent element and vertical space equal to the height of its contents), height = 100%

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Height = auto, width = auto.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Ordered list is where each item is numbered. Unordered is with bullet points.

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Block element

Question 14

What HTML tag is used to link to another website?

Answer 14

achor tag, with an href attribute and value of an absolute URL

Question 15

What is an absolute URL?

Answer 15

A link that takes you to another website/domain

Question 16

What is a relative URL?

Answer 16

A link that takes you to a specific part of the same page or another page on the same website/domain

Question 17

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

Answer 17

../index.html

Question 18

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

Answer 18

folder/index.html

Question 19

How do you indicate the relative link to a grand parent directory?

Answer 19

../../index.html

Question 20

How do you indicate the relative link to the same directory?

Answer 20

index.html (just the name of the file)

Question 21

What is the purpose of an HTML form element?

Answer 21

to collect info from visitors to your site / boundary for form control elements

Question 22

Give five examples of form control elements.

Answer 22

input, textarea, select, option, submit

Question 23

Give 3 examples of type attributes for HTML input elements

Answer 23

text, password, file, submit, image

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 elements for creating tables?

Answer 25

table, tr, td, th, thead, tbody

Question 26

What purpose do the thead and tbody elements serve?

Answer 26

thead contains the headings of table
tbody contains the body
semantic purposes, divider (SEO, indexing, readability)

Question 27

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

Answer 27

schedule, financial reports