Principle of web design chapter 1

EML

A markup language with capablilities that are essential to software developers creating application for the web

Hypertext

A nonlinear way of organizing information

Element

A pair of HTML tags containing content

Rendering Engine

A program contained in every browser that interprets the markup tags in a html file .

Document Type def

A set of rules that contains all the elements attributes and usage rules for the markup language you are using.

Style Sheet

A set of style rules that describes a documents display characteristics.

Cookie

A small piece of text based data that a web page stores on the users machine

Validator

A software program that checks an html document for a syntactical errors.

SGML

A standard system of specifying document structure using markup tags .

Markup Language

A structured language that lets you identify common elements of a document such headings paragraphs and list .

Cascading Style Sheets

A style language created by a wc3 that allows that allows html authors to write a style rules that affect the disply of web pages.

Well formed document

A syntactically correct HML or XHTML file.

Web Page

A text document that is interpreted and displayed by the web browser software

Tag

An HTML tag includes an opening bracket an element name such as h1 and a closing bracket

Deprecated element

An element that the w3c has identified as obsolete

Void Element

An html element that contains only a single tag and no content .

Attrribute

Code added to an element to provide more information about the element.

Semantic Markup

Descriptive markup that identifies that intended use of document sections .

WWWC

Founded in 1994 at the Massachusetts institute of technology to standardize web markup languages

EHML

HTML 4.01 reformulated as an application of XML

Style Rule

In css text that expresses the style characteristics for an html element .

Metadata

Information about the document itself such as how to present the document or what other documents are related to the current one .

Valid Code

Markup code that conforms to the usage rules for the w3c

MIME

Originally a standard for email mime now defines content types for the web

Root Element

The container element for all other elements in a document .

HML

The markup language that defines the structure and display properties of a web page

Document Type

The section of an HTML document that specifies the rules for the document language so the browser knows how to interpret the HTML

Single Source

To create content that can serve multiple purposes and be distributed to different users and devices .