HTML

Question 1

What is the purpose of an HTML form element?

Answer 1

to collect data from users

Question 2

Give five examples of form control elements

Answer 2

• *totally wrong??**
• text input
• text area
• password input
• radio buttons
• checkboxes
• drop-down boxes
• submit buttons
• image buttons (subscribe image)
• file upload

Question 3

Give three examples of TYPE attribute values for HTML input elements

Answer 3

“text”
“password”
“radio”
“checkbox”

Question 4

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

Answer 4

in-line block

Question 5

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

Answer 5

head element

Question 6

Where do you put visible content about the HTML document?

Answer 6

body element

Question 7

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

Answer 7

nested within the html element

- head is above body

Question 8

What is the purpose of a declaration?

Answer 8

• to tell us what type of html is being used

- to help browser render correctly

Question 9

Give five examples of HTML element types.

Answer 9

• html
• head
• body
• img
• h1

Question 10

What is the purpose of HTML attributes?

Answer 10

provides additional info about the contents of an element

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Ampersand - &

Question 12

How do block-level elements affect the document flow?

Answer 12

They always start on a new line

Ex: <h1>, </h1><p>, </p><ul>, and <li></ul>

Question 13

How do inline elements affect the document flow?

Answer 13

They continue on the same line as their neighboring elements

Ex: <a>, <b>, <em>, <img></img></em></b></a>

Question 14

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

Answer 14

height of the content x width of the webpage

Question 15

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

Answer 15

exactly the width and height of the content

Question 16

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

Answer 16

• ordered list is numbered / alphabetized

- unordered list is bullet points

Question 17

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

Answer 17

block

Question 18

What HTML tag is used to link to another website?

Answer 18

a / anchor tag

Question 19

What is an absolute URL?

Answer 19

A link to a page with the domain name

Question 20

What is a relative URL?

Answer 20

Link to a page that exists on the same website

Question 21

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

Answer 21

ex: ../index.html

Question 22

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

Answer 22

name of the child folder, forward slash, file name

ex: music/listing.html

Question 23

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

Answer 23

repeat the ../ twice to go up two folders (parent –> grandparent)
ex: ../../index.html

Question 24

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

Answer 24

value of the href attribute is just the name of the file

Question 25

What are the six primary HTML elements for creating tables?

Answer 25

• table
• tr: table row
• th: table header
• td: table data / a cell within each row
• thead
• tbody
• tfoot

Question 26

What purpose do the thead and tbody elements serve?

Answer 26

to separate different parts of the table, for styling purposes. also, to help people who use screen readers

Question 27

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

Answer 27

• sports results
• time table (train or bus sched)
• student assessment data
• should not be used for layout features