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1
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HTML stands for

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Hyper Text Markup Language

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Declaration that defines that this is an HTML5 document.

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“!DOCTYPE html”

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The entire document is surrounded by what?

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html tags

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What is the HTML links tag? And what do you use to give the link’s destination?

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<a>Words here</a>

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What tags is the visual part of the HTML document between?

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Body tags

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What do you use to make HTML headers and what range do they go through?

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<h1>...<h6>

| Head tags</h6></h1>

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What is the HTML paragraphs tag

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<p></p>

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What is the HTML links tag? And what do you use to give the link’s destination?

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<a>Words here</a>

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What is the HTML images tag? And what are common attributes to go with it?

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“img” tags. The source file is defined by src. The alternative text is defined by alt. And you can choose the width and height with simply width and height.

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What is an HTML element defined as?

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An HTML element is defined by a start tag, some content, and an end tag

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True or False: HTML elements can be nested

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True

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What is an Empty HTML element and give me an example

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HTML elements with no content are called empty elements, they don’t use closing tags. <br></br> is an example of an empty HTML.

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What do HTML attributes do?

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HTML attributes provide additional information about HTML elements

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What HTML elements can have attributes?

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All HTML elements

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Where are attributes specified?

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Attributes are always specified in the start tag

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What attribute does an “a” tag use to get the url of the page link?

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href

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The src attibute is commonly used for what tag?

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The img tag

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What is an Absolute URL/Path?

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An absolute URL/Path links to an external image/page that is hosted on another website

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What is a Relative URL/Path?

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A relative URL/Path links to an image/page that is hosted within the website. You can use no slash to reach content relative to the current page, or you can use a slash for content relative to the whole domain.

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How do you specify the height and width of an image?

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Inside the img tag you use the width and height attributes (in pixels).

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What is the alt attribute used for?

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The alt attribute is a required attribute for the img tag that specifies an alternate text for an image, if the image cannot be displayed or the if they user uses a screen reader.

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What attribute would you use to add things suck as color, font, size and more to your element?

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The style attribute

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What is the lang attribute and where does it go?

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The lang attribute should always be inside the html tag, to declare the language of the Web page.

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Can you add more than just the basics to the lang attribute?

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Yes. You can not only include the language code, but also the country codes (i.e. “en-US”).

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How would you make a tooltip?

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By using the title attribute, which defines some extra information about an element, you create a tooltip for when the element is moused over.

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What is the hr tag?

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The hr tag defines a break in an HTML page, and is most often displayed as a horizontal rule.

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What tag defines a line break? Similar to an hr tag but can be used within paragraphs as well

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The br tag.

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What does the pre tag do?

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The pre element defines preformatted text. This means the text inside a pre element is displayed in a fixed-width font, and it preserves both spaces and line breaks.

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What tag(s) could be used for bold-like text?

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“b” or “strong” tags

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What tag(s) could be used for italic-like text?

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“i” or “em” tags

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What tag(s) could be used for highlighted text?

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“mark” tags

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What tag(s) could be used for small sized text?

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“small” tags

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What tag(s) could be used for text that is crossed out?

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“del” tags

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What tag(s) could be used for underlined text (to be inserted)?

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“ins” tags

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What tag(s) could be used for subscript and superscript text?

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“sub” tags for subscript.

“sup” tags for superscript.

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What is another name for a tag in html?

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An element

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What is the “blockquote” element for?

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The “blockquote” element defines a section that is quoted from another source. (Browsers usually indent this element.)

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What tag do you use to define a short quotation?

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“q” tag

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What tag would you use with the title attribute to show the full name of an acronym or abbreviation?

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The “abbr” tag

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What does the “address” tag do?

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The “address” tag defines the contact information for the author/owner of a document or an article. (The text in the “address” element usually renders in italic, and browsers will always add a line break before and after the address element.)

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What happens when you use the “cite” tag?

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The tag will usually render in italic, defining the title of a creative work.

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In an odd situation where you would want text to be written from right to left, how would you do that?

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By using the “bdo” (Bi-Directional Override) tag, that is built for this.

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How do you add comments for HTML?

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The comment tags for html are as follows:

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44
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HTML colors are specified with what?

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Predefined color names, RGB, HEX, HSL, RGBA, or HSLA values

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What does RGB stand for?

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Red, Green, and Blue light sources

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What does HSL stand for?

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Hue, Saturation, and Lightness

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What is HEX for colors?

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Hexadecimal color is specified with: #RRGGBB (R = red) (G = green) (B = blue)

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What does the A stand for in RGBA and HSLA?

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For both the A stands for Alpha channel, which controls the opacity.

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What 3 basic html attributes deal with colors and what are they used for?

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Background Color is created with the “background-color” attribute. Text Color is created with the “color” attribute. Lastly, you can control the Border Color with the “border” attribute.

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What tag and attributes do you use to connect with a CSS file?

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“link” is the tag. “rel = ‘stylesheet’” is what is used to note that you are linking to a Cascading Style Sheet. “href” is where you put the file path to get to your css file.

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Where will a linked page display by default?

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The current browser window.

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What attribute is used to specify where to open a link?

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“target” attribute

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What options does the “target” attribute have?

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“_self” (default) opens in the same window and tab.
“_blank” opens the document in a new window or tab.
“_parent” opens the document in the parent frame.
“_top” opens the document in the full body of the window.

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What can you use to send an email with the “href” attribute?

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By putting “mailto:” inside the “href” attribute, followed by the email address you wish to send it to.

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What are the 4 different stages a HTML link can be displayed at?

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Visited, unvisited, hover, or active. (a:visited, a:link, a:hover, a:active)

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How do HTML Bookmarks work?

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By using an id and href attribute you link to the id whether it’s on the current page or not.
Example: (for current page)
id=”C4”
href=”#C4”

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What attributes are required for the “img” tag?

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src and alt

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True of False: The “img” tag is an empty tag.

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True.

59
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True or False: HTML “img” tags do not work with animated GIFs.

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False, HTML allows animated GIFs.

60
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What are some common image formats?

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APNG - Animated Portable Network Graphics - .apng
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format - .gif
ICO - Microsoft Icon - .ico, .cur
JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group image - .jpg, .jpeg, .jfif, .pjpeg, .pjp
PNG - Portable Network Graphics - .png
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics - .svg

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What does the “map” tag define?

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“map” defines an image map

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What does the “area” tag define?

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“area” defines a clickable area inside an image map

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What does the “picture” tag define?

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“picture” defines a container for multiple image resources

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What is an image map?

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An image map is an image with clickable areas. The areas are defined with one or more “area” tags.

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How do you connect an “img” element with a “map” element?

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The “img” tag uses the “usemap=#” attribute followed with the name of the map. Put “name=” in the tag of the “map” element to name the image map.

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What are the shape types of an “area” element?

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rect, circle, poly, default

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Shape=”rect” breakdown of coordinates…

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start-x-axis, start-y-axis, end-x-axis, end-y-axis

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Shape=”circle” breakdown of coordinates…

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center-x, center-y, radius

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Shape=”poly” breakdown of coordinates…

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x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3,…

70
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How do you insert a background image to your html element?

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“background-image” style with “url(‘image_location”)

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How do you stop an image from repeating itself in its element?

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“background-repeat: no-repeat”

72
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What 2 styles do you use to make an image cover the entire element it is within?

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“background-attachment: fixed”

“background-size: cover”

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What does “background-size: 100% 100%;” do?

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It stretches the background image to fit the entire element.

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What always needs to be the last child element of the “picture” element? And what elements would be above it?

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“img” element. With any number of “source” elements above it.

75
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What tag defines an HTML table and what other tags go inside it?

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“table” tag; with the “tr” (table row), “th” (table header), and “td” (table data/cell) tags inside.

76
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What attribute would you use to span multiple rows or columns?

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“rowspan” and “colspan” attributes respectively

77
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What types of HTML lists are there and what are there tags?

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Unordered (ul)
Ordered (ol)
Description (dl)

78
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What tags go inside list tags?

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List Item tags (li)

For “dl” you have term names (“dt”) followed by their descriptions (“dd”)

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What options do you have for unordered list’s item marker? (list-style-type)

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disc (default) - it looks like a bullet
circle
square
none - items will not be marked

80
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How to choose how an ordered list is counted?

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The “type” attribute.
type=”1” - means numbered with numbers
type=”A” - means numbered with uppercase letters
type=”a” - means numbered with lowercase letters
type=”I” - means numbered with uppercase roman numerals
type=”i” - means numbered with lowercase roman numerals

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How would you start an ordered list at 25?

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By adding the attribute “start”. Such as start=”25”.

82
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How do block-level elements work?

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Block-level elements always start on a new line and take up the full width available.

83
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How do inline-level elements work?

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Inline-level elements do no start on a new line and it only takes up as much width as necessary.

84
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What is a good element to use for a container?

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The “div” tag/element

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What is the “span” element commonly used for?

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The “span” element is an inline container used to mark up a part of a text, or part of a document.

86
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True or False: Multiple HTML elements can share the same class.

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TRUE

87
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Can different element types share the same class?

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Yes

88
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How would you give an HTML element 2 classes?

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By adding a space between them, like so, “city main”.

This gives the element the “city” and “main” class.

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True or False: Multiple HTML elements can share the same id.

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FALSE; you cannot have more than one element with the same id in an HTML document.

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How can you use ids to create an HTML bookmark?

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By giving your element an id and using that id in an href of another element they will be sent to where your id is at on the page.

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What is an HTML iframe?

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An HTML iframe is used to display a web page within a web page.

92
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What attributes should be used within the iframe element?

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“src” to get the url of what will be in the iframe.

“title” to give a description for screen readers.

93
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True or False: Iframes do not have a border around it by default.

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False; by default, an iframe has a border around it.

94
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If you are to go to an iframe from a link what attributes do you use?

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The “target” attribute of the link must refer to the “name” attribute of the iframe.

95
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Is Javascript a server-side or client-side script?

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Client-side

96
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What tag should be used to display a description if for some reason a browser will not support scripts?

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The “noscript” tag

97
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Where is this picture file located?

img src=”../picture.jpg”

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The picture file is located in the folder one level up from the current folder

98
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Where is this picture file located?

img src=”/images/picture.jpg”

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The picture file is located in the images folder at the root of the current web

99
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Where is this picture file located?

img src=”images/picture.jpg”

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The picture file is located in the images folder in the current folder

100
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Where is this picture file located?

img src=”picture.jpg”

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The picture file is located in the same folder as the current page

101
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What 6 elements are held within the “head” element container?

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“title”, “style”, “meta”, “link”, “script”, “base”

102
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True or False: the “title” element required.

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TRUE

103
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What text-only element is shown in the browser’s bar, provides a name for the page when it is added to favorites, and displays a name for the page in search engine-results?

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The “title” element.

104
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What does the “style” tag in the “head” container do?

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The “style” element is used to define style information (CSS) for a single HTML page

105
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What does the “link” tag in the “head” container do?

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The “link” element defines the relationship between the current document and an external resource.
It is most commonly used to link to external style sheets.

106
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This is the user’s visible area of a web page, what is it?

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The viewport

107
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What sets the width of the page to follow the screen-width of the device (which will vary depending on the device).

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meta name=”viewport” content”width=device-width”

108
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What sets the inital zoom level when the page is first loaded by the browser?

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meta name=”viewport” content=”initial-scale=1.0”

109
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What does the “script” element do?

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The “script” element is used to define client-side JavaScripts

110
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What does the “base” element do?

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The “base” element specifies the base URL and/or target for all relative URLs in a page.
There can only be one single “base” element in a document.

111
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What must the “base” tag have as attributes?

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The “base” tag must have either an href or a target attribute present, or both.

112
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The “meta” element is typically used to specify these…

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The “meta” element is typically used to specify the character set, page description, keywords, author of the document, and viewport settings.

113
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“meta” tags, define the character set used:

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meta charset=”UTF-8”

114
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“meta” tags, define keywords for search engines:

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meta name=”keywords” content=”HTML, CSS, JavaScript”

115
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“meta” tags, define a description of your web page:

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meta name=”description” content=”a description here”

116
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“meta” tags, define the author of a page:

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meta name=”author” content=”Author’s Name”

117
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“meta” tags, refresh document every X seconds:

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meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”X”

118
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“meta” tags, setting the viewport to make your website look good on all devices:

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meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0”

119
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HTML has several semantic elements that define the different parts of a web page layout, what are the 13 different elements?

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article, aside, details, figcaption, figure, footer, header, main, mark, nav, section, summary, time

120
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What are the four different techniques to create a multicolumn html layout?

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CSS framework, CSS float property, CSS flexbox, CSS grid

121
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Give an example of a CSS framework.

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W3.CSS, Bootstrap

122
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What is Responsive Web Design?

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Responsive Web Design is about using HTML and CSS to automatically resize, hide, shrink, or enlarge, a website, to make it look good on all devices.

123
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What tag do you add to the header to create a responsive website?

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Add the ‘meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0’ tag

124
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What would need to be added to an image styling to have the image scale with the size of the screen?

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width:100%

125
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What would need to be added to an image styling to have the image scale with the size of the screen, but not exceed the images original size?

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max-wdith:100%;

height:auto;

126
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What unit can you use to have the text size follow the size of the broswer?

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The text size can use the “vw” unit (viewport width) to follow the size of the browser window

127
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What do you use to change the styling for the different screen sizes?

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Media Queries

128
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What does the “article” element do?

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The “article” element defines independent, self-contained content

129
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What does the “aside” element do?

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The “aside” element defines content aside from the page content

130
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What does the “details” element do?

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The “details” element defines additional details that the user can view or hide

131
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What does the “figcaption” element do?

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The “figcaption” element defines a caption for a “figure” element

132
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What does the “figure” element do?

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The “figure” element specifies self-contained content, like illustrations, diagrams, photos, code listings, etc.

133
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What does the “footer” element do?

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The “footer” element defines a footer for a document or section

134
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What does the “header” element do?

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The “header” element specifies a header for a document or section

135
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What does the “main” element do?

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The “main” element specifies the main content of a document

136
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What does the “nav” element do?

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The “nav” element defines the navigation links

137
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What does the “section” element do?

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The “section” element defines a section in a document

138
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What does the “summary” element do?

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The “summary” element defines a visible heading for a “details” element

139
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What dos the “time” element do?

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The “time” element defines a date/time

140
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What are the different tags HTML can show user input and computer code?

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By using the “kbd”, “samp”, “code” and “var” elements

141
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Should you close empty elements?

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Yes, because XML and XHTML require it and it is good practice.

142
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What do you replace reserved characters in HTML with?

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With character entities (like for a non-breaking space)

143
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What character set is the standard for HTML5?

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UTF-8

144
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What is XHTML?

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XHTML is HTML defined as an XML application. XHTML is stricter version of HTML. XHTML stands for EXtensible HyperText Markup Language.

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