HTML

Question 1

what is html

Answer 1

a markup language that is used to create documents for the web

Question 2

what file extension do html pages have

Answer 2

.htm or .html

Question 3

what is hypertext

Answer 3

text that you click to jump from document to document

Question 4

what is markup

Answer 4

a language with a specific syntax that instructs a web browser how to display a page

Question 5

what is a web page

Answer 5

a document on the web

Question 6

why is html needed when creating a web page

Answer 6

to create the structure of a web page

Question 7

what are hyperlinks

Answer 7

links, from a hypertext document, to another location

Question 8

what is html rendering

Answer 8

the process of a browser interpreting html tags and displaying the page in its formatted state

Question 9

what two main parts are there to a web page

Answer 9

a head section and a body section

Question 10

what is the head section of a web page

Answer 10

the section that contains the information about the page and is created using the head element

Question 11

what is the body section of a web page

Answer 11

the section that contains the information you actually see in the browser and is created using the body element

Question 12

what elements make up the skeleton of a html web page

Answer 12

the html, head, body and title elements

Question 13

what happens when a user clicks a hyperlink

Answer 13

the web browser loads the referenced page or jumps to a marked section within the page

Question 14

what three types of lists are there in html

Answer 14

ordered, un-ordered and description

Question 15

how do you nest lists

Answer 15

place the nested list in a list item element

Question 16

what are ordered lists

Answer 16

lists where each item in the list has a set order

Question 17

what are un-ordered lists

Answer 17

lists that have no order; bullet list

Question 18

what are description lists

Answer 18

lists that contain terms and definitions

Question 19

what is a parent element

Answer 19

an element that contains another element

Question 20

what is a child element

Answer 20

an element contained within another element

Question 21

what are sibling elements

Answer 21

two or more elements that have the same parent element

Question 22

what are character entities

Answer 22

named character references used to print any character in html

Question 23

what is the DOM

Answer 23

a programming interface for HTML, XML and SVG documents that provides a structured representation of the document as a tree

Question 24

what is an internal link

Answer 24

a link to another page in the same website

Question 25

what is an external link

Answer 25

a link to a different site that uses an absolute url

Question 26

what is an absolute URL

Answer 26

a url that includes the full web address

Question 27

what is the viewport

Answer 27

the medium a user views a web page with

Question 28

what is a form handler

Answer 28

a program on the web server that manages data sent from a form

Question 29

what is semantics within html

Answer 29

the practice of giving content on the page meaning and structure by using the proper element

Question 30

what does semantic html do

Answer 30

describes the value of content on a page, regardless of the style or appearance of that content

Question 31

what benefits are there to using semantic html

Answer 31

enabling computers, screen readers, search engines, and other devices to adequately read and understand the content on a web page