HTML5/CSS3 Flashcards
doctype tag
First instruction of html page that notifies the browser what kind of page is being created. Begins with ! i.e (!doctype html)
html tags
mark out the entire page as html content. typically go around the whole page of html document
head tag
controls how the page will be used and sets up the page. contains instructions that don’t appear on the viewable page.
body tag
contains all the viewable content that a user will see.
meta tag
page meta data instructions for a browser
title tag
sets up title for web page that doesn’t appear on the page. appears in browser tab. also used as bookmark.
less than exclamation point dash dash text dash dash greater than
creates comments in html code
<h1>A Heading</h1>
heading tag. 6 total heading tag numbers which render different heading sizes.
<p></p>
paragraph tags to break up text into paragraphs.
<br></br>
line break tag. self closing.
<strong></strong>
bold tag
<em></em>
italics tag
aside tag
Indent block of text to be a side note
section tag
tag for semantically separating text in html. browser compilers can interpret to separate text.
<ol> tag</ol>
<li>
</li>
ordered list tag. lists appear as numbers.