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Understanding HTML
Session 8.1 Terms & Quick Check
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Internet/New Media
Professional
02/24/2014

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Term
body section
Definition
The tag indicates the beginning of the _________, which includes the content of the Web page and the tags needed to format the page content. The ______________ ends with the tag.
Term
comment tag
Definition
You can include content that you do not want to display in the Web page within the __________ .
Term
markup language
Definition
A general term that indicates the separation of the formatting of a document and the content of a document.
Term
metalanguage
Definition
A language used to create other languages.
Term
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
Definition
The document description language on which HTML is based.

Before HTML was created, ______ was the standard for formatting documents that were not dependent on the operating system or environment in which the documents were created or viewed.

Because _______ is very complex, it is used almost exclusively by large organizations.
Term
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Definition
The ________ establishes specifications that identify how a browser interprets the HTML code.
Term
specifications
Definition
Sets of standards.
Term
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Definition
A markup language that uses customizable tags to describe data and its relationship to other tags.
Term
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Definition
A stricter version of HTML designed to confront some of the problems associated with the different and competing versions of HTML, and to better integrate HTML with XML.
Term
deprecated
Definition
An HTML feature that is being or has been replaced or phased out by a new or future HTML specification and that might now be supported by future browsers.
Term
nested tag
Definition
An HTML tag included within another HTML tag
Term
attribute
Definition
The part of an HTML tag that specifies additional information about the content to be formatted by the tag. Some _______ are required; others are optional.
Term
Web-safe color palette
Definition
A collection of 216 colors that all computers render in the same way.
Term
document type declaration (DTD)
Definition
A one-sided tag that tells a browser which syntax version fo a markup language a document uses.
Term
bulleted list
Definition
An HTML format in which a bullet character is displayed next to each item in the list. Also called an unordered list.
Term
numbered list
Definition
An HTML format in which a sequentially ordered number or letter is displayed nest to each item in the list. Also called an ordered list.
Term
definition list
Definition
An HTML format in which each item in a list consists of a team followed by its definition.
Term
image
Definition
Any file that contains a picture, such as a photograph, logo, or computer-generated file.
Term
pixel
Definition
A single point in an image; used to describe and image's width and height.
Term
relative path
Definition
A path that describes the location of a file relative to the location of the current file.
Term
absolute path
Definition
A path that provides a file's location with absolute precision; there is no reference to the current file.
Term
anchor tag
Definition
An HTML tag that creates a hyperlink.
Term
target (or target page)
Definition
The page that is opened when a hyperlink is clicked.
Term
source page
Definition
A webpage that contains a hyperlink.
Term
bookmark
Definition
A hyperlink whose target is a location in the same page in which the hyperlink appears.
Term
head section
Definition
Includes the tags that contain the page title and other information about the page.
Term
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Definition
A nonproprietary markup language that a Web browser interprets and uses to display the content as a Web page.
Term
The first version of HTML was developed using SGML in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Calliau while they were working at CERN - the European Laboratory for Particle Physics- on a project to improve the laboratory's document handling procedures.

HTML quickly became the language used to create Web pages because if its simplicity and portability, which made it usable with many operating systems and on different types of computers.
Definition
How was HTML developed?
Term
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Definition
What person or organization establishes specifications for HTML?
Term
Extensible Markup Language is another popular markup language which was a W3C recommendation that began in 1998 to describe the format and structure of data.

XML is used to share data across organizations, especially when data is used on the Internet.
Definition
What is XML and how is it used?
Term
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language is the most recent markup language specification from the W3C which integrates the formatting features of HTML with a stricter syntax that works to combine HTML and XML so that Web content is more readily and easily delivered to all devices that are connected to the Internet.
Definition
What is XHTML and how is it used?
Term
The main differences between HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1 are in the syntax of the language.

HTML is somewhat forgiving when it comes to including closing tags and supporting older features of early HTML specifications. XHTML is not as forgiving.

Therefore, many Web developers are using the stricter syntax of XHTML in HTML 4.01 documents so that any new applications that support only XHTML specifications will also be able to use the HTML documents.
Definition
How are XHTML and HTML similar and how are they different?
Term
tags
Definition
Codes that indicate elements such as headings, paragraphs, and bulleted lists in an HTML document.
Term
To use an image in an HTML document, you must create a reference to the file location where the image is stored. If the image is stored in the same folder as the HTML document, then the browser loads the image from the same folder. If the image is stored anywhere else, the reference to it in the HTML document must include the path to the folder or drive on which the image is stored. To reference the image in the HTML document, you include the one-sided tag in the location in which you want to insert the image. When you use the tag, you must also include the arc attribute to define the location (the "source") of the image. You can also use the optional height, width, border and alt attributes.
Definition
How do you insert an image in a Webpage?
Term
Hyperlinks can be used to connect different Web pages together with an HTML anchor tag.
Definition
How do you link Web pages to each other?
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