Chapter 1 HTML5
root element
container element for all other elements in the document, example: opening and closing html element, <html> </html>
<h1> element
creates a bold heading for any text it contains
<p> element
creates a paragraph
rendering engine
each browser interprets HTML in its own way based on its rendering engine, software that reads the document's HTML code and associate CSS style information and displays the resulting formatted content in the browser window, example: Gecko used in Firefox, WebKit used in Safari and Google Chrome
deprecated element
element that would be removed from future releases of HTMl
void elements
elements containing only a single tag, contain no content, no end tag, example: <br> element creates a new line
style rules
express the style characteristics for an HTML element
Tim Berners-Lee
first proposed HTML in 1989 as a way to easily manage and share information among scientific colleagues over the internet
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
founded in 1994 at MIT, sets standards for HTML for web developers to follow
HTML tag
includes an opening bracket (<), an element name such as h1, and a closing bracket (>), the ending tag has a slash (/) preceding the element
element
part of HTML tags containing content
attributes
provide more information about an element, always placed in the start tag of an HTML element, example: src attribute tells the browser which image to display, <img src="prettypicture.jpg">
style sheet
set of style rules that describes the display characteristics of a document
validator
software that checks an HTMl document for syntax errors, to test for code compliance
Document type (doctype)
specifies rules for the document language so the browser knows how to interpret the HTML code and display it properly
<meta> element
specifies the document content type and character set
markup language
structure language that lets you identify common sections of a web page such as headings, paragraphs, and lists with markup tags that define each section, example: HTML
HTML(Hypertext Markup Language)
text-based markup language used to write every web page on the World Wide Web
XML
Extensible Markup Language, stricter language than HTML, must be syntactically correct to be processed be software application
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
a style language web developers use to add presentation information to web pages