HTML

Question 1

Where do you put non-visible content about the HTML document?

Answer 1

Non-visible content is put inside of the head element of the HTML document

Question 2

Where do you put visible content of the HTML document?

Answer 2

Visible content is put inside of the body element

Question 3

Where do the head and body tags go in a valid HTML document?

Answer 3

The head and body tags are put after the html tag, respectively.

Question 4

What is the purpose of the DOCTYPE declaration?

Answer 4

The purpose of the DOCTYPE declaration is to let the browser know what version of HTML (or any language) we’re using.

Question 5

Give FIVE examples of HTML element types

Answer 5

h1 - h6
body
img
p
a

Question 6

What is the purpose of HTML attributes?

Answer 6

The purpose of HTML attributes is to provide additional info about the element that it was attached to. Adds special/unique functions to an element. To make it more specific.

Question 7

Give an example of an HTML entity (escape character)

Answer 7

The ampersand (&) would be &

Question 8

How do block-level elements affect the document flow?

Answer 8

Block-level elements always begin on a new line.

Question 9

How do inline elements affect the document flow?

Answer 9

Inline elements will share the same line with other inline elements.

Question 10

What are the default width and height of a block-level element?

Answer 10

The default width of a block-level element is all (100%) of the horizontal space of its parent element (container)
The default height is the height of its contents

width = 100%;
height = auto;

Question 11

What are the default width and height of an inline element?

Answer 11

The default width of an inline element is the space between the tags that it is within. The default height is the height of its contents.

width = auto;
height = auto;

Question 12

What is the difference between an ordered list and an unordered list in HTML?

Answer 12

An ordered list is numbered. An unordered list is formatted with bullet points.

Question 13

Is an HTML list a block element or an inline element?

Answer 13

An HTML list is a block element.

Question 14

What are the three types of HTML lists?

Answer 14

Ordered, unordered, and definition.

Question 15

What are definition lists used for?

Answer 15

To define terminiology.

Question 16

Can lists be nested within one another?

Answer 16

Yes.

Question 17

What element links to another website or another part of a website? What attribute must be assigned to it ?

Answer 17

the a (anchor) element

the href attribute

Question 18

What is an absolute URL?

Answer 18

The entire URL of a website. Located outside of your domain, wherever you’re working.

Question 19

What is a relative URL?

Answer 19

A URL located within the domain you’re working on. On the same computer you’re working.

Question 20

How do you indicate the relative link to a parent directory?

Answer 20

../filename

Question 21

How do you indicate the relative link to a child directory?

Answer 21

foldername/file.name

Question 22

How do you indicate the relative link of a grandparent directory?

Answer 22

../../filename

Question 23

How do you indicate the relative link to the same directory?

Answer 23

filename

Question 24

What is the purpose of an HTML form element?

Answer 24

To group together form control elements. The purpose of an HTML form element is to collect information from a user.

Question 25

Give five examples of form control elements

Answer 25

input
textarea
select
button
option

Question 26

Give three examples of type attributes values for HTML input elements

Answer 26

Text
Password
Radio

Question 27

Is an HTML input element a block element or an inline element?

Answer 27

It’s an inline element.

Question 28

How do you “link” a label element to a form element?

Answer 28

You would set the “for” attribute of the label element to the same value as the “id” element of the form element

Question 29

What are the six primary HTML elements for creating tables?

Answer 29

table
thead
th
tr
td
tbody

Question 30

What purpose do the thead and tbody elements serve?

Answer 30

They serve as semantic elements. thead will contain the headers of the table and tbody will contain the rest of the contents of the table

Question 31

Give two examples of data that would lend itself well to being displayed in a table

Answer 31

Cities and their populations
Students and their grades
Transactions and their costs

The comparison of many different things.