Chapter 4-Fluency5 Flashcards
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Browser
Converts web pages to what we see on the screen
Web Pages
•Created, stored, and sent in encoded form
Hypertext markup language(HTML)
Main Lang. Used to define how a web page should look
HTML
Background color, font, & layout are specified in HTML
(XHTML) Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
Hidden formatting tag that establish words on a web page
Tags
Words or abbreviations enclosed in angle brackets,
•XHTML tags MUST be lowercase
•tag pair surrounding text must be formatted like parentheses
Start tag
Is referred to as the start or open tag
End tag
The end or close tag
Singleton Tags
• few tags are not paired
•do not have matching or ending
<hr></hr>
produces horizontal line
<br></br> continues next line
Required Tags
Every web page composed of a head & body
3 HTML tags required for every web page
3 required HTML tags
& enclose head
& enclose body
& enclose both
Body section contains the content of the page
/ slash
Ends
form must always be followed required
Firefox
Open source; program code is public ally available anyone can make improvements
Text editor
Basic way to process text
(WYSIWYG) what you see is what you get
Info confuses browsers
Text editor part II
Must use it to write HTML
Do not include extra info
Browsers want web pgs in ASCII only
Anchor tag
•begin with <a><a> symbol</a></a>
Escape symbol
Show angle brackets on the page.
• to use it you must the (&) followed by an abbreviation, then a ;
< displays as <
Hyperlinks
A link from a hypertext file or document to another location or file.
Head
Contains the beginning material like the title etc
White space
Spaces that have been inserted for readability.
Created w/ spaces, tabs, & new lines
Preformatted info
Info contained within <pre> & </pre> tags
Paragraph tags
<p> </p>
All text within ↖ treated as a paragraph
Relative pathnames
How to find the referenced file relative to the file the anchor tag appears.
