Getting Started with HTML

Vocabulary and key concepts from the 'Getting Started with HTML' lecture, covering the history, editor environment, basic tags, and character entities.

HTML

Stands for Hypertext Markup Language; it is the most widely used language for creating web pages by describing their structure using markup.

Hypertext

Refers to the way in which web pages or HTML documents are linked together.

Tim Berners-Lee

The Father of the World Wide Web (WWW) who created HTML in late 1991.

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium, the organization that provides recommendations for HTML specifications.

Software Bug

An error, flaw, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that causes incorrect results or behavior.

Notepad++

A free source code editor for Microsoft Windows that supports editing in tabs and allows working with multiple open files in a single window.

Title bar

A part of the Notepad++ environment that shows the file name, file type, and file location for the current file.

Tab bar

A part of the Notepad++ environment that gives access to all opened files.

Line number

Identifies the location of a specific line of code within the editor.

Text area

The working space in an editor where the codes are actually typed in.

Status bar

A bar in the editor environment that identifies the location of the cursor.

Heading tags

Tags defined with $<h1>$ to $<h6>$; $<h1>$ is used for the most important heading while $<h6>$ is for the least important.

Paragraph tag

The $<p>$ element used to define a paragraph; browsers automatically add one line before and after it.

Line Break tag

The $<br/>$ tag which produces a new line without starting a new paragraph; it is an empty element that does not need a closing tag.

Preformatted tag

The $<pre>$ tag that preserves spaces and line breaks of text, usually displaying it in a fixed-width font like Courier.

Horizontal Rule tag

The $<hr />$ tag which creates a horizontal line to divide different sections of a web page.

Comment Tag

Used to insert notes or descriptions in the source code using the syntax $<!--\text{ Comments }-->$; these are not displayed by the web browser.

Character Entities

Specific codes used in HTML to display reserved characters (like $<$ or $>$) that might otherwise confuse the browser.

 

The character entity for a non-breaking space, used to add extra spaces to text that HTML would otherwise remove.

<

The character entity name for the 'less than' symbol ($<$); its entity number is <.

>

The character entity name for the 'greater than' symbol ($>$); its entity number is >.

&

The character entity name for the ampersand symbol (&$); its entity number is &$$.

©

The character entity name for the copyright symbol ($$©$$.