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Chapter 4 - Creating a Simple Page Flashcards

1
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five basic steps of page production

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  1. start with content
  2. give the document structure
  3. identify text elements
  4. add an image
  5. change how the text looks with a style sheet
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rich-text

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documents that have hidden style-formatting instructions for making text bold, setting font size, and so on

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the five things browsers ignore

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multiple-character (white) spaces, line breaks (carriage returns), tabs, unrecognized markup, text in comments

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4
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three parts to the anatomy of an HTML element

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opening tag, content, closing tag

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syntax

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the anatomy of an HTML element

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tag

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consists of an element name within angle brackets

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opening tag (start tag)

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the element name appears here in brackets

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closing tag (end tag)

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the element name appears here in brackets preceded by a slash (/)

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markup

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the tags added around content

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element

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consists of both the content and its markup

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empty element

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an element that does not have content

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basic document structure

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<1DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>
<meta></meta>
<title>Title here</title>
</head>

<body>
Page content goes here.
</body>

</html>

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six parts to an HTML document

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  1. document type declaration (DOCTYPE declaration)
  2. html element (root element)
  3. head element
  4. body element
  5. meta element
  6. title element
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document type declaration (DOCTYPE declaration)

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tells the browser which HTML specification to use to interpret the document

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html element (root element)

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contains all the elements in the document, and is not contained within any other element

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head element

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in the html element - contains elements that pertain to the document that are not rendered as part of the content, such as its title, style sheets, scripts, and metadata; identifies the head of the document that contains information about the document itself

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body element

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contains everything that we want to show up in a browser window; identifies the body of the document that holds the content

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meta element

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provide document metadata; provides information about the document

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metadata

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information about the document such as author, keywords, publishing status, description, and character encoding

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character encoding

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standardized collection of letters, numbers, and symbols

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title element

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a descriptive, mandatory, title; gives the page a title

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code points

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reference numbers of a standardized collection of characters

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coded character set

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a standardized collection of characters

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character encoding

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the way in which characters are converted to bytes for use by computers

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Unicode (Universal Character Set)

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super-character set that contains over 136 thousand characters from all active modern languages

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HTTP header

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information about the document that the server sends to the user agent

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semantic markup

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when marking up content, choosing the HTML element that provides the most meaningful description of the content at hand

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Document Object Model (DOM)

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the way elements follow each other or nest within one another, creating relationships between them; an outline

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block elements

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elements that start on new lines and do not run together, treated as though they are in rectangle boxes, stacked up in a page. each block element begins on a new line, with some space usually added above and below the entire element by default

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inline element (text-level semantic element, phrasing element)

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elements that stay in the flow of the paragraph

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comments

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notes in the source document put between comment tags (<!-- -->)

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user agent style sheets

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built in style sheets in browsers

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empty elements

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elements that do not have content because they are used to provide a simple directive

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attribute

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instructions that clarify or modify an element

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two parts of the anatomy of an attribute

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attribute name, value

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Boolean attribute

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describes a feature that is either on or off

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Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

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changes presentation of a page

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validator

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software that checks your source against the HTML version you specify

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What is the difference between a tag and an element?

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A tag is part of the markup (brackets and element name) used to delimit an element. An element consists of the content and its tags.

40
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Write out the recommended minimal markup for an HTML5 document.

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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset=utf-8”> <title>Title</title> </head> <body> </body></html>

41
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Indicate whether each of these filenames is an acceptable name for a web document (Y/N): Sunflower.html

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Yes

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Indicate whether each of these filenames is an acceptable name for a web document (Y/N): index.doc

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No, must end in .html or .htm

43
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Indicate whether each of these filenames is an acceptable name for a web document (Y/N): cooking home page.html

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No, there may be no character spaces

44
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Indicate whether each of these filenames is an acceptable name for a web document (Y/N): Song_Lyrics.html

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Yes

45
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Indicate whether each of these filenames is an acceptable name for a web document (Y/N): games/rubix.html

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No, there may be no slashes in the name

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Indicate whether each of these filenames is an acceptable name for a web document (Y/N): %whatever.html

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No, there may be no percent symbols

47
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The following is incorrect. Describe what is wrong with it and then write it correctly: <img “birthday.jpg”>

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missing the src attribute

48
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The following is incorrect. Describe what is wrong with it and then write it correctly: <em>Congratulations!<em></em></em>

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missing the slash in the closing tag

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The following is incorrect. Describe what is wrong with it and then write it correctly: <a href=”file.html>linked text</a href=”file.html”>

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doesn’t need the attribute in the closing tag

50
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The following is incorrect. Describe what is wrong with it and then write it correctly: <p>This is a new paragraph<\p>

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used the wrong slash mark

51
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How would you mark up this comment in an HTML document so that it doesn’t display in the browser window: product list begins here

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<!--product list begins here-->

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