Learn HTML Flashcards
What is HTML?
The skeleton of all web pages
What does HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language
Markup Lauguage
A computer language that defines the structure and presentation of raw text
Hypertext
Text that has been embedded with instructions to take a web page viewer to additional information
HTML is composed of _______
elements
An element is made of
opening tag, content, closing tag
HTML tag
The element name, surrounded by an opening (<) and closing (>) angle bracket
How to tell opening tag vs. closing tag?
closing tags have a / in them
The body
Represents the content of an HTML document, there can only be one body
Child element
An element contained within a parent element
The child element is _______ inside the parent element
nested
Headings
Shown by < h# >, the number can go up to six and it gets smaller and smaller
Divs
Page elements created with div tags that are used to position and style content
Attributes
Can provide information and change styling, are put inside tags
ID attribute
Used to specify different content, usually placed in the div element