HTML and CSS Basics

Question 1

Every language has a special syntax. What is syntax?

Answer 1

Rules for communicating.

Question 2

What is HTML to a website?

Answer 2

It is a language that gives a website its structure. The skeleton…

Question 3

In general, what is the job of the web browser?

Answer 3

To convert the code in the file into a recognizable website, and does so by following the HTML syntax.

Question 4

<strong></strong> ???

Answer 4

Makes text bold.

Question 5

What does HTML stand for?

Answer 5

Hyper Text Markup Language

Question 6

Hypertext means?

Answer 6

“text with links in them”

Question 7

What does CSS stand for?

Answer 7

Cascading Style Sheets

Question 8

What is CSS used for?

Answer 8

Making websites pretty. Its the skin and makeup that covers the bones and skeletons (HTML)

Question 9

What does tell the browser?

Answer 9

What language you are writing in…in this case it is HTML

Question 10

Things inside “” are called…

and there are #? of them, called _____ and _____..

Answer 10

Tags

They come in pairs, with an opening and closing making up the whole set.

Think of them as parenthesis…

Question 11

How many parts are there to an HTML file?

They are…?

Answer 11

2

The “head” and “body”

Question 12

What goes into the files “head”? What about the “body”?

Answer 12

The head contains information about the file, such as the title.

The body contains the contents of the website, such as text, images, and videos.

The body is the part that will be actually visible on the page.

Question 13

How many types of headings are there in html?

Answer 13

6

Question 14

What is “href = “?

Answer 14

Attribute

The value tell the link where to go

Question 15

What is the tag for creating hyperlinked text? What elements, attributes, and values does it contain?

Answer 15

<a> Text </a><a></a>

Question 16

What is the image tag and why is it different from others?

Answer 16

This tag is a bit different from the others. Instead of putting the content between the tags, you tell the tag where to get the picture using src. It’s also different because there is no ending tag. It has / in the tag to close it: <img></img>.

Question 17

What is nesting?

Answer 17

When you put one HTML element inside of another.

Question 18

What are the “instructions” given to elements called?

Answer 18

Attributes

Question 19

What does <div> stand for? What is it used for?</div>

Answer 19

It stands for division and it is used to divide the sections in a structure into containers.

Question 20

What is the general format for the CSS syntax?

Answer 20

selector {
property: value;
}

Question 21

What is a Selector?

Answer 21

Can be any HTML element

Question 22

What is a Property?

Answer 22

Any aspect of a selector

Question 23

What is a Value?

Answer 23

Any possible setting for a Property.

Question 24

How do you comment out an HTML element? CSS?

Answer 24

HTML:

CSS: /Comment/

Question 25

What are the three attributes required to LINK css to html?

Answer 25

rel = stylesheet

type = text/css

href = stylesheet.css