web developement vocab

Nesting

Placing one element inside another, like boxes inside boxes.

Parent element

An element that contains another element.

Child Element

An element contained directly inside another.

Sibling Element

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 you somewhere else.

Alt text

text The description supplied by an image's alt attribute It is read aloud by screen readers and shown when an image fails to load. Every meaningful image needs one.

Semantic HTML

Choosing elements that match the meaning of the content

Render

What a browser does when it reads your HTML and draws the finished page on screen.

HTML

HyperText Markup Language. The language used to write the structure and content of every web page.

Markup

Labels added around text to tell a computer what each part of the document is.

Tag

The bracketed label that marks where something begins or ends:

Element

An opening tag, its content, and its closing tag taken together as one unit.

Content

Whatever sits between the opening and closing tags.

Attribute

extra information written inside an opening tag,

Value

The part of an attribute after the equals sign, wrapped in quotation marks.

Void Element

An element with no content and therefore no closing tag,

DOCTYPE

The line at the very top of a file. It tells the browser to read the page as modern HTML. It is a declaration, not an element.

Head

1. The head element. Holds information about the page — its title, character set, links to stylesheets. Nothing inside it appears on screen.

Body

The body element. Holds everything a visitor actually sees on the page.

Heading

A title or subtitle, written with <h1> through <h6>, <h1> is the most important.

Headings should descend in order and not be chosen for their size.