HTML

<mark>

>An HTML formatting element for highlighted text.

!DOCTYPE

A "mostly useless, but required" header only to trigger "standards mode markup language (SGML)" in common browsers.

Float

A CSS property that specifies that an element should be placed along the left or right side of its container, where text and inline elements will wrap around it. Then the element is taken from the normal flow of the web page, though still remaining a part of the flow, contrary to absolute positioning.

ASP

A HTML page that includes one or more scripts (small embedded programs) that are processed on a Microsoft Web server before the page is sent to the user.

Pixel

A basic unit of programmable color on a computer display or in a computer image. It is to be thought of it as a logical - rather than a physical - unit. The physical size of this unit depends on how you've set the resolution for the display screen.

HTML

A markup language. It defines what will be displayed on your browser and how it will be displayed.

Server Side Scripting

A technique used in web development which involves employing scripts on a web server which produce a response customized for each user's (client's) request to the website. ... It is often used to provide a customized interface for the user.

MHTML

A term that is short for MIME HTML, is a web page archive format used to combine in a single document the HTML code and its companion resources that are otherwise represented by external links (such as images, Flash animations, Java applets, and audio files).

<!-->

An HTML Comment tag.

<abbr>

An HTML formatting element for an acronym or abbreviation.

GIF

An often animated raster graphics file and is the second most common image format used on the World Wide Web after JPEG. GIF uses the LZW compression algorithm and is owned by Unisys.

Shorthand CSS

By using this property, a Web developer can write more concise and often more readable style sheets, saving time and energy. ... An example can be demonstrated through the CSS background property, that's able to define the value of background-color , background-image , background-repeat , and background-position .

Secondary Colors

Colors that are mixed from two primary colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel. These colors are Orange, Green and Violet.

Primary Colors

Colors that cannot be mixed from other colors. They are the source of all other colors. Red, Blue and Yellow.

Block Elements

Elements that always expand to fit the width of their container, but will only expand vertically to accommodate their content, force newlines before and after and accept width, height, margins, padding, and border. Examples: <p>, <div>, <li>

Inline Elements

Elements that wrap tightly around their content both horizontally and vertically, flow like text (do not create line breaks), accept left and right margins, but not top or bottom, and that accept any border or padding while Ignoring set widths and heights. Examples: <a>, <span>

Complementary Colors

Pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those particular two colors. Modern color theory uses either the RGB additive color model or the CMY subtractive color model, and in these, the complementary pairs are red-cyan, green-magenta, and blue-yellow. Opponent process theory suggests that the most contrasting color pairs are red-green, and blue-yellow.

Table

Several HTML element constructs (<table>, <tr>, <th> and <td>) that allow web authors to arrange data like text, images, links, other tables that are displayed on a web page.

<tbody>

Table Body

<td>

Table Data

<tfooter>

Table Footer

<th>

Table Header

<theader>

Table Header

<tr>

Table Row

Hypertext

Text with hyperlinks.

a href

The anchor tag is how you would place a link using HTML. If the end user clicks on the text in a anchor reference, they would be directed to the place that the reference has specified.

Client Side Scripting

The environment used to run scripts is usually a browser. The processing takes place on the end users computer. The source code is transferred from the web server to the users computer over the internet and run directly in the browser. The scripting language needs to be enabled on the user's computer.

Chevrons

The left angle, right angle symbols (or the greater than and less than designates) that precede a tag or tag ending.

Anchor Text

The text that is linked from.

<link>

This tag defines a link between a document and an external resource. It is often used to bring external style sheets into a current HTML document.

<img>

This tag defines an image in an HTML page. It has two required attributes: src and alt.

<ol>

This tag defines an ordered list. An ordered list can be numerical or alphabetical.

<ul>

This tag defines an unordered (bulleted) list.

<section>

This tag defines areas in a document, such as chapters, headers, footers, or any other areas of the document. whereas: The <div> tag defines a division or this tag in an HTML document. The <div> tag is used to group block-elements to format them with CSS.

<title>

This tag is required in all HTML documents and it defines the title of the document, which appears in the browser's toolbar.

<div>

A container unit that encapsulates other page elements and divides the HTML document into sections. Web developers use it to group together HTML elements and apply CSS styles to many elements at once.

External CSS

A file that contains only CSS code and is saved with a ".css" file extension. This CSS file is then referenced in your HTML using the <link> instead of <style>.

Bootstrap CSS

A free collection of tools for creating a websites and web applications. It contains HTML and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions.

Scripting Language

A language that interacts with a program that may accompany an HTML document or be embedded directly in it. The program executes on the client's machine when the document loads, or at some other time such as when a link is activated. HTML's support for scripts is independent of the language, that is in use here. PHP, PERL, Ruby, Javascript are examples of this language.

Mark Up Language

A language that is designed for the processing, definition and presentation of text. This language specifies code for formatting, both the layout and style, within a text file. The code used to specify the formatting are called tags.

Attribute

A modifier of an HTML element type. It either modifies the default functionality of an element type or provides functionality to certain element types unable to function correctly without them.

#

A placeholder in a HTML document.

Forms

A programming instrument that allows a user to enter data that is sent to a server for processing.

JavaScript

A programming language used to make web pages interactive. It runs on your visitor's computer and doesn't require constant downloads from your website.

PNG

A raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. These files were created as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and is the most widely used lossless image compression format on the Internet.

Hyperlink

A reference to data that the reader can directly follow either by clicking, tapping, or hovering. It points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document.

PHP

A scripting language, and can be used to create web pages written in HTML. It runs on the server.

DTD

A set of markup declarations that define a document type for an SGML-family markup language (SGML, XML, HTML). These declarations defines the legal building blocks of an XML document. It defines the document structure with a list of legal elements and attributes.

Dreamweaver

A software program for designing web pages, essentially a more fully featured HTML web and programming editor. The program provides a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) interface for users to create and edit web pages in a more user-friendly environment.

SGML

A standard for how to specify a document markup language or tag set. Such a specification is itself a document type definition (DTD). It is not in itself a document language, but a description of how to specify one. It is metadata.

XHTML

A stricter version of HTML.It is defined as an XML application and is supported by all major browsers.

<p>

A tag that defines a paragraph. Browsers automatically add some space (margin) before and after each of these elements. The margins can be modified with CSS (with the margin properties).

<nav>

A tag that defines a set of navigation links. Notice that NOT all links of a document should be inside of this element. It is intended only for major block of navigation links.

<hr>

A tag that defines a thematic break in an HTML page, and is most often displayed as a horizontal rule. This element is used to separate content (or define a change) in an HTML page.

<footer>

A tag that defines the bottom section of a document or section. This element should contain information about its containing element.

Body

A tag that defines the document's content. This element contains all the contents of an HTML document, such as text, hyperlinks, images, tables, lists, etc.

<meta>

A tag that provides metadata about the HTML document. This data will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable. These elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata.

<pre>

An HTML element that defines preformatted text. The text inside of this is displayed in a fixed-width font (usually Courier), and it preserves both spaces and line breaks.

<bdo>

An HTML formatting element for b-directional override.

<address>

An HTML formatting element for contact information for the author/owner of a document.

<del>

An HTML formatting element for deleted text.

<em>

An HTML formatting element for emphasized text.

<strong>

An HTML formatting element for important text.

<ins>

An HTML formatting element for inserted text.

<i>

An HTML formatting element for italics text.

<q>

An HTML formatting element for quoted text.

<small>

An HTML formatting element for smaller text.

<sub>

An HTML formatting element for subscripted text.

<super>

An HTML formatting element for superscripted text.

<blockquote>

An HTML formatting element for text that is quoted from another source.

<cite>

An HTML formatting element for the title of a work.

<b>

An HTML formatting element of bold. text

<br>

An HTML line break

RGB Model

An additive color model in which red, green and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additive primary colors.

Disable

An attribute that Specifies that an input element should be disabled.

src

An attribute that Specifies the URL (web address) for an image.

<align>

An attribute that sets the alignment of a rule. This element is only useful if you also use WIDTH . <HR WIDTH="40%" ...

<ALT>

An attribute that specifies an alternative text for an image, when the image cannot be displayed.

<header>

An element that represents a container for introductory content or a set of navigational links. This element typically contains: one or more subcomponent elements (<h1> - <h6>) logo or icon.

<article>

An element that represents a self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site, which is intended to be independently distributable or reusable (e.g., in syndication). Examples include: a forum post, a magazine or a blog entry.

Wrapper

An element, commonly a div, that encloses one or more other. It is used to hold a design within certain boundaries.

Elements

An individual component of an HTML document or web page, once this has been parsed into the Document Object Model. HTML is composed of a tree of HTML nodes, such as text nodes. Each node can have HTML attributes specified.

<span>

An inline element that is mostly used for styling by using an id or class. Very similar to the <div tag.

Semantic Elements

HTML elements that have a specific meaning. For example <h1>. It tells google bots that the content within the tag is the most significant header contained in the HTML document. <div> on the other hand, is a non-semantic element as it only indicates a division in the HTML document and provide no information on what goes before, after or within the tag.

Tags

The hidden keywords within a web page that define how your web browser must format and display the content. Most of these must have two parts, an opening and a closing part.

TIFF

These files can be saved in a variety of color formats and in various forms of compression. These files use lossless compression to maintain image integrity and clarity and are often used for professional photography.

JPG

These type of files have 2 sub-formats, Exif (often used in digital cameras and photographic equipment), and JFIF (often used on the World Wide Web).

Style

This <style> tag is used to define style information for an HTML document. Inside the <style> element you specify how HTML elements should render in a browser. Each HTML document can contain multiple <style> tags.

ID

This attribute specifies a unique value for an HTML element. This attribute is most used to point to a style in a style sheet, and by JavaScript (via the HTML DOM) to manipulate the element with the specific id.

Class

This attribute specifies one or more classnames for an element. It is mostly used to point to a matching element that exists in a style sheet. However, it can also be used by a JavaScript (via the HTML DOM) to make changes to HTML elements with a specified entry of this element.

Head

This element is a container for metadata (data about data) and is placed between the <html> tag and the <body> tag.

<li>

This element is used to represent an item in a list. It must be contained in a parent element: an ordered list ( <ol> ), an unordered list ( <ul> ), or a menu ( <menu> ).

<head

This element provides general information (metadata) about the document, including its title and links to its scripts and style sheets. ...

<aside>

This element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around this element, and which could be considered separate from that content. Such sections are often represented as sidebars in printed typography.

CSS

This feature describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on screen, paper, or in other media. By using this feature, it saves a lot of work. It can control the layout of multiple web pages all at once.

HTML Metadata

This is data about the HTML document. It is not displayed. It typically defines the document title, character set, styles, links, scripts, and other meta information.

Anchor

This tag could be either a hyperlink or an anchor. In HTML5, the <a> tag is always a hyperlink, but if it has no href attribute, it is only a placeholder for a hyperlink. HTML5 has some new attributes, and some HTML 4.01 attributes are no longer supported.

<script>

This tag is used to define a client-side script (JavaScript). This tag either contains scripting statements, or it points to an external script file through the src attribute.