Language Of The Web Flashcards
What does a web server do?
Stores HTML, files, pictures, sounds and video and serves them up after receiving requests from a browser.
What does HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language
What does a browser do?
Requests and receives pages from the server
What are tags?
Words or characters in angle brackets
What is a markup language?
Tells the browser how your text is structured
What do you put at the end of a file name to give the operating system a better idea of what the file is?
.html
How do you insert a comment in HTML?
<!--comment-->
How do you insert an image in HTML?
<img></img>
Opening and closing tags are called
Matching tags
A website designed to be viewable on any size device is called
Responsive web design
What is the <a> element used for?</a>
To create links
How do you specify the destination of the link in an <a> element?</a>
The href attribute
How do you specify additional information about an element?
Using attributes
In <a>Great Movies</a> what is the label?
Great Movies
If a browser recognizes an element or attribute, we say it…
Supports it
What does href stand for?
Hypertext reference
The folder that contains the whole site is called the ______ folder or the _____ _____ folder.
Root, top level
Your starting point is your “_______” and the file you want to get to is the “_____________”
Source, destination
What do you type to go up a folder? In other words, how do you get to the parent folder?
../
What would you call families of folders?
Directories
What is the maximum number of characters you can use in a path?
255
A link that points to other files on your website is what kind of path?
Relative
A link that uses the full URL is what kind of path?
Absolute
When should you organize your website files?
Early in the process of building your site
How do you separate parts of your path?
Forward slash “/”
Should you use spaces in file or folder names?
NO
What is the <em> quote for?</em>
Use it to emphasize text the the a speaker might emphasize a word. Don’t use it to italicize a sentence.
Name three block elements
h2
p
blockquote
Name three inline elements
em
a
q
What is a character entity?
Some character are reserved in HTML and require a code not the character itself.
What is the character entity for the less than symbol?
It is & l t ;
Which element is used for a date or time?
time element
What does URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
http://www.boomrangapps.com/index.html Name the parts: Website name Absolute path to the resource on the root folder The protocol The domain name
http is the protocol
www. boomrangapps.com is website name
boomrangapps. com is domain name
index. html is absolute path
On the web server, everything in the root folder becomes
Visible on the web
What does FTP mean?
File Transfer Protocol
What is an FTP used for?
To transfer files from your computer to a web server
Is the order of attributes important for an element?
No
To link to another page, use an ___ tag with an _ _ _ _. To link to a specific point (destination) on that page, add ___ and the id to the end of the href
a
href
#
Which attribute tells the browser where to open the link in the href?
Target attribute
If no target is used in an href, where will the link open?
In the same window
If the target for an href is “_blank” then the browser opens the window in…
A new window
What is a tool tip?
The title attribute which displays the title of a link when you mouse over it
What type of protocol is http?
Request and response
