HTML

Question 1

What does the tag represent?

Answer 1

The visible part of the HTML document

Question 2

What is an element?

Answer 2

Everything between opening tag and closing tag . Including text and other child elements

Question 3

Two parts of an element’s attributes?

Answer 3

name and value

Question 4

What Attribute is available for all elements?

Answer 4

ID and lang

Question 5

what do <b> and <i> tags do?</i></b>

Answer 5

make bold and italic, but now mainly used for emphasis. You can also use <strong> for bold and <em> for italic</em></strong>

Question 6

what do _{and ^{tags do?}}

Answer 6

subscript and superscript. although this is better done in CSS

Question 7

define “empty element”

Answer 7

an element without text content

Question 8

what is the <hr> tag?

Answer 8

Horizontal rule

Question 9

How do you indent a whole section of text?

Answer 9

<blockquote></blockquote>

Question 10

Two other tags to show bold and italic

Answer 10

<strong> and <em></em></strong>

Question 11

what element does “cite” attribute go on?

Answer 11

a quote. Can be used to direct to the quotation’s source

Question 12

How do you set an Acronym apart?

Answer 12

with the <abbr> tag. The title=”something” attribute of the abbr tag can then be used to explain the abbreviation when the user hovers over the text</abbr>

Question 13

Tags to strike through and underline text?

Answer 13

<del> - strikethrough. <ins> - underline</ins></del>

Question 14

how do you create multi-tiered lists

Answer 14

with <ul> or </ul><ol> tags within the <li> tag - which is always within an outer <ul> or </ul><ol></ol></li></ol>

Question 15

Two types of Markup?

Answer 15

1. structural - layout 2. semantic - inline. defining text format

Question 16

word for full URL?

Answer 16

Absolute reference

Question 17

opposite of full URL

Answer 17

Relative Reference

Question 18

name for main folder of website?

Answer 18

Root folder

Question 19

attribute of <a> that tells it to open in new window?</a>

Answer 19

target=_blank

Question 20

What <img></img> attribute gives user info when they hover?

Answer 20

title=”something”

Question 21

Two ways to display content elements?

Answer 21

block (takes own line) and inline (shares line with other elements)

Question 22

three places to put images in markup?

Answer 22

before (outside), at start of or within text content

Question 23

Name of vector image format?

Answer 23

SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics

Question 24

Two tags for associating an image and caption

Answer 24

• outside tag. -within figure tag

Question 25

Reasons to use GIF, PNG, or JPG?

Answer 25

GIF and PNG for simple graphics. PNG for simple graphics with transparency. JPG for more complex images (pictures)

Question 26

attribute that is being phased out?

Answer 26

size. Use CSS now

Question 27

Default alignment for a text

Answer 27

center

Question 28

keywords to have across multiple cells?

Answer 28

colspan="numberOfColumns" and rowspan="numberOfRows"

Question 29

what tags surround the row?

Question 30

what tags surround the body of a table?

Question 31

what tags surround the footer of a table?

Question 32

reasons for tags?

Answer 32

more accessible for screen readers. Also allows different styling in CSS for top and bottom of form

Question 33

attributes of element?

Answer 33

action="someScript.script" method="getOrPost"

Question 34

Reasons to use Get vs Post when submitting a form?

Answer 34

Get is good for sending small amounts of data (like a search term) to get info from the server. Post is good if you are sending a long string or more in depth or complex data (like an image)

Question 35

default method of form submission?

Answer 35

get

Question 36

Attribute to not use on new forms?

Answer 36

size. better to use CSS

Question 37

Possible attributes of text input

Answer 37

type, id, name, placeholder

Question 38

What should be the same and different for radio buttons?

Answer 38

Radio buttons in a group need to have the same name="sameName" so that the code know they are associated (and that only one can be chosen). however, they need to have different values so that the code know what the user selected

Question 39

How do you know if a radio button or checkbox is selected?

Answer 39

the checked= attribute is set to "checked"

Question 40

Tags for a dropdown list?

Answer 40

- this would be a two-option dropdown

Question 41

tags for file upload

Question 42

what is the difference between and tags?

Answer 42

input is an empty element (can't have other elements inside it) whereas a button can encompass other elements and text inside it (like an image)

Question 43

Attributes for HTML5 form validation

Answer 43

- the last one is a binary attribute telling the browser that the field is required.

Question 44

How do you give an element more than one class?

Answer 44

both within same quotation marks, separated by a space: class="this that"

Question 45

Examples of block and inline elements

Answer 45

block: div, paragraph, heading. inline: image, form elements

Question 46

Difference between div and span

Answer 46

div is a block item. span is inline

Question 47

Attributes of an iframe

Answer 47

src, height, width

Question 48

How to tell search engines not to index page?

Question 49

what is the meta attribute pair?

Answer 49

either name/content or http-equiv/content

Question 50

what are some common Meta Tags

Answer 50

name="description"/content="theDescription", name="keywords"/content="theKeywords", name="robots"/content="noindex", http-equiv="pragma"/content="nocache", http-equiv="author"/content="author'sName"

Question 51

Ten escape characters (characters that you can't put in HTML text because the browser might think it was code)

Answer 51

``` & = & " or ' = “ ” ‘ ’ multiply or divide symbols = ÷ × copyright symbol = © trademark symbol = ™ greater than symbol = > less than symbol - < ```

Question 52

How do you begin and end writing an escape character?

Answer 52

start with & and end with ; For instance: > is >

Question 53

what does in the first part of the document do?

Answer 53

It tells the browser what version of HTML the document is.