Test 2

Question 1

What is a search form?

Answer 1

Form that allows a user to request a word or phrase to search a database. *it is NOT searching the internet in real time

Question 2

What is a search engine result?

Answer 2

A list that describes web pages matching the keywords. each description contains a link, a page title, a brief description. Results include paid advertisements and organic results.

Question 3

What is a search engine spider? (bot/crawler)

Answer 3

A computer program that follows hyperlinks and ‘crawls’ the Web. categorizes the pages and stores information. may access:
-content in html, title, links to your page, links out of your page, meta tag keywords and descriptions

Question 4

How to get your website found?

Answer 4

1- Provide your page with keywords, title, and description
2- Name your image files with keywords
3- Make sure every page is reachable from at least one text link
4- submit your site to the search engines and search directories
5- get links from other sites

Question 5

What is the meta tag in HTML?

Answer 5

A stand-alone tag placed in head sections with name and content. there should be two names, keywords and description.

<meta name=”keywords” content=”Acme Design web e-commerce ecommerce consulting consultation redesign” />

<meta></meta>

Question 6

What two key things do CSS rules consists of?

Answer 6

-selector: what is being changed
-declaration: what you’re changing (property and value)

Question 7

What are contextual selectors in CSS?

Answer 7

allows you to specify when selectors only when used within something

e.g: i want strong to be display in red when it occurs with a
list ; li strong {color: red}

Question 8

What is the id attribute?

Answer 8

-unique, can only be used once within a document
-in CSS, a hash (#) is used to specify it

Question 9

What is the class attribute?

Answer 9

-used for generic styles specific to many HTML tags
-in CSS. a dot(.) is used to specify it

Question 10

Explain class vs id?

Answer 10

-use a class if the style applies to more than one element in an HTML page
-use an id if the styles applies to one specific element in HTML

Question 11

Give four examples of CSS font properties.

Answer 11

-font-weight: normal or bold
-font-style: normal or italic
-font-size: configures size of text (em: 16px / px)
-font-family: configures typeface of text

Question 12

What is the model of a box in HTML? (from inside to outside)

Answer 12

Content: what’s inside
Padding: space between content and border
Border: border around content and padding, usually colored
Margin: space between this box and the box around it

Question 13

Give an example of two containers tags in CSS.

Answer 13

Div: a block element and causes the text it encloses to start on a new line

Span: an inline element than simply holds text without doing anything special to it

Question 14

What is the float property in CSS?

Answer 14

allows you to wrap the boxes below the floating box around it, if there is enough horizontal room

ex: float =right : allows the box to stick to the left side of its containers and allow the other boxes below to wrap around it

Question 15

What is the clear property in CSS?

Answer 15

it clears the effect of the float of the thing above it

Question 16

What are the steps to create a form?

Answer 16

1- insert a form object
2- create a table within the form to layout the information
3- add labels to explain the input / form elements
4- add the form controls

Question 17

What three attributes are in the form tag?

Answer 17

Id: identifies the form
Method: specifies how data should be sent to the server
-choices: post or get
Action: specifies the server programs that will process the data (usually php or cgi script)

Question 18

What is the label tag?

Answer 18

<label for=”“id of content”> descriptive text </label>

Question 19

What are the three form controls?

Answer 19

Text input, selection, and buttons

Question 20

What is the input tag?

Answer 20

<input></input>
-type refers to type of inputs (text, password, checkbox, radio, submit, reset)
-value is another option, refers to text inside the box

Question 21

What is the password type for inputs?

Answer 21

-accepts text information that will be hidden as it is entered

Question 22

Difference between radio and checkbox?

Answer 22

Radio only takes one option, checkbox you can check multiple

Question 23

What is the submit and reset type for forms?

Answer 23

Submit: Trigger whatever action is set
Reset: resets form fields to initial values

Question 24

What is the video tag?

Answer 24

Only available in HTML5
-allows you to provide multiple video formats so the browser chooses the one to show depending on the plug-in that it has

ex:

Question 25

What is a video tag?

Answer 25

video tag
Available in HTML5 (We’ve been using HTML4 so far.)
Allows you to provide multiple video formats so the browser chooses the one to show depending on the plug-in that it has
Issue: not supported in older browsers

ex: <video></video>

<source></source>


<source></source>
You are missing a video about xyz
</video>

Question 26

What three parts of the video tag are there?

Answer 26

<video controls=”controls>: adds video controls like play pause and volume

<source></source>

: can link to different video files. the browser will use the first recognized format

text between the <video> and </video> is for browsers that do not support the element

Question 27

How do you put a youtube video in HTML?

Answer 27

iframe tag.

ex: <iframe src=“url” width=”200” height=”200”> Explain the video for search engine</iframe>

Question 28

What are the four values for the position property in CSS?

Answer 28

1- static: default position
2- relative: offset from its normal static position
3- absolute: a fixed position within the its containing element
4- fixed: a fixed position within the browser window

-all four have a property of top bottom left or right; this refers to the position of box’s corners