HTML fundamentals

Question 1

What is the root element in English?

Answer 1

The root element is:

html lang=”en” within tag symbols

Question 2

What element contains meta information and with what attribute?

Question 3

How do you specify the title of the document?

Question 4

What is the element for a paragraph?

Answer 4

<p> </p>

(Will automatically word wrap)

Question 5

What are the elements for paragraphs and how many types?

Answer 5

<h1> etc to <h6></h6></h1>

Question 6

How can you preserve spaces and line breaks in text?

Answer 6

<pre> </pre>

Question 7

How can you add emphasis or italicise text?

Answer 7

<em> for emphasis <b> for bold <i> for italic</i></b></em>

Question 8

How do you add a line break?

Answer 8

<br></br>

Question 9

What is the root element in English?

Question 10

What element contains meta information and with what attribute?

Question 11

How might you use the class attribute with span?

Answer 11

.tab {margin-left: 50px;} (in header)

<p><span>Text here</span></p> (body)

Question 12

What is the element for a paragraph?

Answer 12

<p> </p>

(Will automatically word wrap)

Question 13

What are the elements for paragraphs and how many types?

Answer 13

<h1> etc to <h6></h6></h1>

Question 14

Give an example of stylesheet contents?

Answer 14

body {background-colour: powder blue;}
h1 {color: blue;}
p {color: red;}
p.tab1 - p elements with class tab1

Question 15

How does an html page link to a stylesheet?

Question 16

How do you add a line break?

Answer 16

<br></br>

Question 17

What elements will define blocks of text, which can take style attributes?

Answer 17

or <div></div>

Question 18

How do you insert a single space?

Answer 18

&nbsp

Question 19

In a table, how to you get multiple rows or columns?

Answer 19

Use attributes colspan and rowspan.

Question 20

How might you use the class attribute with span?

Answer 20

.tab {margin-left: 50px;} (in header)

<p><span>Text here</span></p> (body)

Question 21

What file extension defines html files?

Answer 21

.html or .htm

Question 22

What file extension defines css files?

Answer 22

.css

Question 23

Give an example of stylesheet contents?

Answer 23

body {background-colour: powder blue;}
h1 {color: blue;}
p {color: red;}

Question 24

How does an html page link to a stylesheet?

Question 25

How do you define the target of styling?

Answer 25

Use one of four selectors: element, class, ID or pseudo (hover, visited)

Question 26

How do you define a table with a border?

Question 27

How do you define the elements within a table?

Answer 27

defines each header element
defines each header row
defines each table cell

Question 28

How do you define unordered lists?

Answer 28

<ul>
<li>Item</li>
<li>Another item</li>
</ul>

Question 29

How do you define ordered lists?

Answer 29

<ol>
<li>Item</li>
<li>Another item</li>
</ol>

Question 30

How do you define definition lists?

Answer 30

<dl>
<dt>Definition term</dt>
<dd>Definition data</dd> (can be multiple)
</dl>

Question 31

How do you define a document as HTML5?

Answer 31

Use

!DOCTYPE html