Computer Science Web Development Flash Cards

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language, a language used to create web pages.

HTML Element

A piece of a website, marked by a start tag and often closed with an end tag.

HTML Tag

The special set of characters that indicates the start and end of an HTML element and that element's type.

Website Content

The text and images on a website.

Website Structure

How the content of a website is organized.

Heading

A title or summary for a document or section of a document.

List

Allows web developers to group a set of related items.

Digital Footprint

The collected information about an individual across multiple websites on the Internet.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets; a language used to describe how HTML elements should be styled.

CSS Selector

The part of a CSS rule-set that defines which HTML elements the style should be applied to.

Copyright

The exclusive legal right to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.

CSS Class

An identifier that allows multiple elements in an HTML document to be styled in the same way.

Flexbox

A layout model in CSS for displaying items.

div

The HTML division tag, called “div” for short, is an element that lets you group sets of content together in a container.