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HTML
HyperText Markup Language. The language used to write the structure and context of every Web page. It is not a programming language - it describes a document rather than giving instructions.
Markup
Labels added around text to tell a computer what each part of the document is. Mars is just a word, <h1>Mars</h1> is a heading.
Tag
the bracketed label that marks where something begins or ends; <p> is an opening tag, </p> is a closing tag. the closing tag has a forward slash
element
an opening tag, its content, and its closing tag taken together as one unit. <p> Mars is red </p> is an element.
content
whatever sits between the opening and closing tags. it can be text, other elements, or both
attribute
extra information written inside an opening tag, always as name= “value”. <a href=”about.html”>, href is the attribute name
value
the part of an attribute after the equals sign, wrapped in quotation marks. href= “about.html” the value is about.html
void element
an element with no content and therefore no closing tags, such as <img> </br>
DOCTYPE
the line <!DO TYPE html> at the very top of a file. it tells the browser to read the page as modern HTML
Head
<head> holds information about the page - its title, character set
body
the <body>, holds everything a visitor actually sees ont he page
heading
a title or subtitle, written with <h1> through <h6> is the most important.
nesting
placing one element inside another, like boxes inside boxes.
parent element
an element that contains another element <p><em>red</em><p> <p> is parent
child element
an element contained directly inside another.
sibling elements
two or more elements that share the same parent, sitting side by side at the same level
hyperlink
clickable text or an image that takes your somewhere else
alt text
the description supplied by an images alt attribute, it is read aloud by screen readers and shown when an image fails to load.
semantic HTML
choosing elements that match the meaning of the content <nav. for navigation <button> button
render
what a Bowser does when it reads your HTML, and draws the finished page on screen.