HTML & CSS Chapter 1 (CIW)
HTML basic tags
<HTML></HTML> <head></head> <body></body>
What is the HTML tag to embed CSS code into an HTML document?
<style></style>
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are rules in an external text file that determine how to display HTML elements in your Web pages. CSS contain formatting instructions that can define the font, color and phrase elements used on a particular markup page.
What does CGI Applications allow for?
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) applications enable information to pass in and out of a server.
DTD
Document Type Definition (DTD) is a set of rules contained in a simple text file that defines the structure, syntax and vocabulary as it relates to tags and attributes for a corresponding document.
What does Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) use to organize the data on a Web page?
Extensible Markup Language (XML) allows you to organize the data on a Web page, and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) describes only a document's visual layout.
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) allows you to organize the data on a Web page, and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) describes only a document's visual layout.
What does Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) use to format a page's appearance in the Web browser?
HTML
Which of the following is no longer necessary when you use HTML5 to develop Web pages?
HTML5 provides modern requirements for the Internet with fewer plug-ins, such as the ability to standardize how video and audio are presented on a Web page. Elements within HTML5 are designed to eliminate the need to install third-party video plug-ins.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) describes only a document's visual layout, and Extensible Markup Language (XML) allows you to describe the function and context of the information contained in a document.
JavaScript
JavaScript is an object-based scripting language that allows developers to add interactivity to their Web pages. JScript is a scripting language developed by Microsoft that is similar to JavaScript. JScript is implemented exclusively in Internet Explorer. VBScript is a proprietary Microsoft language derived from Visual Basic that is used to manipulate ActiveX scripts.
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) identify the contents of a file in the MIME encoding system using a type/subtype format; examples are image/jpg and text/plain.
What does CGI Applications allow for?
Structured Query Language (SQL) is a language used to create and maintain professional, high-performance corporate databases.
Child and Parent Tags
Tags that nest inside of themselves.
XHTML
XHTML allows HTML to become XML-compliant. Thus XHTML extends HTML by allowing the convergence of HTML documents with XML structure, creating forward-compatibility for documents
What type of applications do you need to create HTML code?
You do not need to use a special editor application to create markup language code (e.g., HTML). You can use a text editor, which is a program that allows you to type simple text and edit it. Examples of text editors include Microsoft Notepad and WordPad, or UNIX-based programs such as Vi and Pico.
