HTML Coding Flashcards
- Hypertext Markup Language
- a language that is recognized by most browsers used on the Internet
HTML
- commands written between less than and greater than signs
- also called angle brackets
- sometimes there is only one and sometimes there is an opening and closing required
Tags
- when you modify a page contents with more than one tag
- inside a tag
- do not overlap tags
nesting tags
- denotes a web page
- must be entered at the beginning and end of your code
header area
title shown in title bar
actual content of page
paragraph tag
<p>
| </p>
- special options for contained text
- entered between the command word and the final greater than symbol
- nested inside tag
attributes
- a number or a location specified for an attribute
- contain numbers or letters or specific location like left, right, center
values
main heading
<h1>
</h1>
1-6
- an attribute used to describe where you want something to appear
- left, right, center, and justify
align
- may be entered into the HTML code and will, by default, appear from one side of the browser screen to the other side (straight lines)
- appear shaded
horizontal rules (lines)
- used for contact info
- displayed in italics
<address>
| </address>
horizontal rule
<hr></hr>
indented quotation
<blockquote>
| </blockquote>
specifies line thickness in pixels
size=number
- specifies line length in pixels
- table width set by pixels
width=number
- specifies line length measured as a % of screen
- table width set by percent of screen size
width=number%
specifies that there is no shading on the rule
noshade
specifies left alignment attribute
align=left
specifies center alignment
align=center
specifies right alignment
align=right
- numbered list
- numbered or lettered the way you want
- by default begins with 1
ordered lists
- bulleted lists
- you can specify type of bullet
unordered list
a list that allows you to make a list in definition form
definition list
ordered list
<ol>
| </ol>
unordered list
<ul>
| </ul>