HTML Review Flashcards

Flashcards to review key concepts from HTML lecture notes.

Inline images

Images that are placed in line with surrounding content.

Web browser

A software program that retrieves a document from a web server and renders it locally in a readable form.

Markup language

A language used to describe the content and structure of documents.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Web pages are text files written in this language.

Title element

Part of the document head, not displayed on the web page, but appears in the browser tab.

hr

Marks a thematic break such as a scene change or transition to a new topic.

Style sheet

A separate document describing the exact appearance of each page.

Web pages

Documents on the web stored on web servers.

UTF-8

The most common character encoding in use.

blockquote

Marks an extended quote.

Web browser

A software program to access web pages.

Strong element

Marks text of great importance.

Semantic elements

HTML sectioning elements where the tag name describes the purpose and content type.

html element

The top element in the HTML hierarchy, containing all other elements.

Element attributes

Provides additional information about the purpose of the element or how it should be handled.

Doctype

Processing instruction indicating the markup language used in a document.

White-space

Blank spaces, tabs, and line breaks found within a file.

Element tag

Marks a component in the document.