HTML & CSS- part 5

Question 1

How do you center an image?

Answer 1

Use these in a class, ID, or CSS statement:
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

Question 2

What can you use instead of:
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

Answer 2

margin: 0 auto 0 auto;

Question 3

What does float mean when working with an image?

Answer 3

Wrapped text. So if you float the image to the right, then the text will be on the left and vice versa:
float: right;

Question 4

How do you stop wrapping text?

Answer 4

Cancel out the float with

p {clear: both;}

Question 5

How is a link displayed by default?

Answer 5

in blue with an underline

Question 6

What does href stand for?

Answer 6

Hypertext Reference

Question 7

What is href telling the browser?

Answer 7

“Watch for an address immediately following the equal sign.
Go there page to load when the user clicks the anchor.”

Question 8

How would you type a link to stackoverflow.com from another site?

Answer 8

<a>Stack Overflow</a>

Question 9

In this link, what is the anchor?
<a>Stack Overflow</a>

Answer 9

The anchor is “Stack Overflow”

The anchor is the link text between the opening <a> tag and the closing </a> tag.
It is the text that the user sees.

Question 10

If you’re linking to a page on the same website and in the same folder, do you have to use the full address?

Answer 10

No. You can just use the page name.

Question 11

How do you link to a page on the same website but in a different folder?

Answer 11

Add the subdirectory name:
“catalog/products.html”

In this case, the subdirectory is “catalog”

Question 12

What is domain name and example?

Answer 12

The unique name that appears after the @ sign in email addresses, and after www. in web addresses.

peta.org

Question 13

What does this mean?

../

Answer 13

It’s used in the HREF to go up one directory level

Question 14

If you’re linking to the same site you are on, do you need a / in from of the subdirectory?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

Code an opening tag that links to the subdirectory PETS that’s on the same level as the subdirectory you’re linking from. The page is CATS.HTML

Answer 15

<a href=”../pets/cats.html”>

Question 16

In a web address, what goes in front of the www?

Answer 16

http://

Question 17

How do you link to a specific place on the current page ?

Answer 17

1. put an ID name in the destination tag like this: <p id=”target”>You have arrived at the destination tag</p>
2. Then refer to that ID in the “doorway” tag like this: <a href=”#target”>click here to go to the destination tag</a>

Question 18

How do you link to a specific place on a different page?

Answer 18

Same process as linking to a target on the current page, except you need to include the page name:
<a href=”index.com#target”>

*If it’s on a different website, you need to include the domain name, too.

Question 19

How do you code a link so that it opens in a new window?

Answer 19

This is the code: target=”_blank”

Used like this:
/<a href=”http://www.y.org” target=”_blank”>

Question 20

How do you style a link?

Answer 20

\ a {/*code goes here}