Basic HTML Elements

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Flashcards covering the fundamentals of HTML, including history, basic document structure, tags, attributes, and text formatting styles as presented in the lecture notes.

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HTML

Stands for Hypertext Markup Language; it is a document-layout and hyperlink-specification language used to design web page layouts and specify hyperlinks.

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Tim Berners-Lee

A physicist at CERN who devised HTML in the late 80s and early 90s to share documents over the Internet.

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CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, where the technology to share documents over the Internet was developed.

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Tag

A coded HTML command, enclosed in angle brackets < >\text{< >}, that indicates how a part of a web page should be displayed.

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Attribute

A special word used inside a tag to specify additional information such as color, alignment, or value.

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Element

One complete individual component of HTML consisting of a start tag, content, and an end tag.

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Container Elements

HTML elements that require a pair of tags: a starting tag and an ending tag (e.g., <TITLE>...</TITLE>\text{<TITLE>...</TITLE>}).

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Empty Elements

Also called void elements, these require only a starting tag and no ending tag (e.g., <BR>\text{<BR>}, <HR>\text{<HR>}).

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<!DOCTYPE html>\text{<!DOCTYPE html>}

The declaration at the top of a document that tells the browser which version of HTML is being used; required for HTML5.

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<HEAD>\text{<HEAD>}

A tag containing document information such as its title, scripts, style definitions, and descriptions.

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<TITLE>\text{<TITLE>}

A tag used inside the header to specify text that appears on the browser's title bar; ideally it should be 6060 characters or fewer.

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<BODY>\text{<BODY>}

The tag that encloses all content to be displayed in the web page, including text, images, lists, and tables.

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UTF-8

The default character encoding used for English pages in HTML5, specified through the meta charset attribute.

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Hexadecimal RGB

A six-digit number representing colors by the amount of red, green, and blue in the range 0000 to FF\text{FF} (e.g., \text{#FFFFFF} is white).

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VLINK\text{VLINK}

An attribute of the <BODY>\text{<BODY>} tag used to specify the color of recently visited links.

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ALINK\text{ALINK}

An attribute of the <BODY>\text{<BODY>} tag used to specify the color of an active link while it is being clicked.

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Margin

The blank area left from the edge of the page, controlled by attributes like LEFTMARGIN\text{LEFTMARGIN} and TOPMARGIN\text{TOPMARGIN} where 72 pixels72\,pixels make an inch.

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H1\text{H1} to H6\text{H6}

The six levels of HTML headings, where H1\text{H1} is the largest and H6\text{H6} is the smallest.

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<BR>\text{<BR>}

An empty element used to insert a simple line break to jump to the next line.

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<P>\text{<P>}

A container tag used to define a paragraph, which ends a line and shows a blank line before beginning the following text.

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<BASEFONT>\text{<BASEFONT>}

A tag used to define the basic font size for the document; the default font size value is 33.

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<HR>\text{<HR>}

A tool for horizontal rules used to visually separate sections; its default size is 3 pixels3\,pixels.

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noshade\text{noshade}

An attribute for the <HR>\text{<HR>} tag that creates a flat, 2D horizontal rule instead of the default 3D rule.

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Logical Text Styles

Tags like <EM>\text{<EM>} and <STRONG>\text{<STRONG>} that render text according to its meaning or importance.

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Physical Text Styles

Tags like <B>\text{<B>}, <I>\text{<I>}, and <U>\text{<U>} that indicate specific formatting regardless of meaning and are rendered similarly by all browsers.

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\text{<}

The escape sequence used to display the left angle bracket (<<) in an HTML document.

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\text{ }

The special character code used to insert a new blank space in HTML content.