HTML and Web Design Definitions - Part 1

HTML Definitions - Part 1

Source Code = the set of instructions and statements written by a programmer using a computer programming language

index.html = this is the "heart" of the web site

CSS = is the acronym of “Cascading Style Sheets” and is used to define styles for your web pages, including the colors, design, fonts, layout and variations in display for different devices and screen sizes

There are three types of CSS which are given below:

• Inline CSS
• Internal or Embedded CSS
• External CSS

     Inline CSS: Inline CSS contains the CSS property in the body section attached with element is known as inline CSS. This kind of style is specified within an HTML tag using the style attribute.

     Internal or Embedded CSS: This can be used when a single HTML document must be styled uniquely. The CSS rule set should be within the HTML file in the head section i.e the CSS is embedded within the HTML file. 

     External CSS: External CSS contains separate CSS file which contains only style property with the help of tag attributes (For example class, id, heading, … etc). CSS property written in a separate file with .css extension and should be linked to the HTML document using link tag. This means that for each element, style can be set only once and that will be applied across web pages.

charset = is a defined list of characters (letters, punctuation marks, numbers, symbols) recognized by the computer hardware and software

stylesheet = is used to define styles for your web pages, including the design, layout and variations in display for different devices and screen sizes

href = short for hypertext reference, HREF is an HTML attribute used to link to another web page or a different portion of the same page

<li> = is a tag used to create lists. A list must start with either a <ul> if it is an unordered list or start with a <ol> if it is an ordered list

<ul> = an unordered list

<nav> = is used to navigate through the navigation key from the keyboard

src = is short for source

alt = alt attribute is the HTML attribute used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify alternative text (alt text) that is to be rendered when the element to which it is applied cannot be rendered

padding = creates a space between an element's borders and content contained inside of that element.

display: block = these elements exist on their own line and span the entire width of the page unless another width is specified

text-decoration = is a CSS text-decoration property allows developers to add underlines, overlines, and strike-through lines to text

UTF = Unicode Standard Unicode Transformation Format (UTF)is a variable-width character encoding used for electronic communication and is able to encode all of the possible character code points in Unicode. The most prolific is UTF-8, which is a variable-length encoding and uses 8-bit code units, designed for backwards compatibility with ASCII encoding

Metadata = searchable code for web crawlers