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HTML Notation |
Definition |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| Angle Brackets | Used to set HTML tags from the rest of the text on the page |
| Tags/Tags Sets | Tells how regular text becomes HTML directions - set off with angle brackets |
| Attributes | Test within HTML tags to modify the tag. Cannot be used alone. |
| Values | Values follow attributes and tell the browser how to understand the attributes. Vallues are surrounded by quotation marks |
| Web Server | Where our web pages are located, connected to the Internet. This is also referred to as the web page host |
| Web Browser | Software on computer to access the Internet and view web pages |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol. The way files which make up the web pages are sent to the server so they can be viewed. |
| Hyperlinks/Links | HTML codes to move from one page to another, or one site to another. |
| Home Page | The Index page, or the page which appears when entering a web site |
| Test Editor | A basic editing program. In the case of this class, we are using Notepad. |
| HTML Editing Programs/HTML editors | Software designed to create web pages. Some do not show any HTML and some allow editing within HTML. |
| Download | Transferring a file from the web to personal computer. |
| Upload | Transferring a file to the web (or other computer). |
| Graphics Editor/Graphics Editing Program | Software which prepares images to use on the web |
| Template | A pre-made pattern |
| !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN//" - within angle brackets | This tells browers how to interpret your HTML page |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| HTML 4.01 Transitional | Allows for use of HTML 3.2 but flixble for coding and tags from HTML 4.01 |
| Opening Tags | Tags typed in angle brackets. |
| Closing Tags | Tags typed in angle brackets with / prior to tag within brackets |
| Template for Web Page | DOCTYPE from above first, then HTML - HEAD - TITLE - /TITLE - /HEAD - BODY - /BODY - /HTML each within angle brackets |
| Title Tg/tag set | Refers to name that appears in the top left corner of the browser window, not what is on the web page itself. |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locatot is the address located in the white location address |
| html-/html tag set | This tag is written to let the browser know that the document is written in html. There may be a line prior to the HTML tag at the beginning, but it is always placed at the end of the page. |
| head-/head | This tag set is used to hold information about the web page itself including the title tag sets |
| body /body tag set | Everything you see on the web page is contained inbetween this tag set. |
| bold text | b - /b within angle brackets |
| italicized text | i - /i |
| Tag sets | First on, last off. Also, write consistently in all lowercare or uppercase letters, do not mix. |
| Main tags | tas such as html, head, title, body are placed by themselves on a line as are their counterparts in the tag sets. |
| Attributes | Place attributes withing the in the image tags. Surround the values by quotation marks within the image tag. Leave one space after tag. |
| Paragraph | Use p and /p within angle brackets to separate paragraphs. |
| Line Break | Use this br within angle brackets to make the text go to the next line. |
| Center | Use center - /center to center items and text on a page. |
| Primary heading | Use h1 - /h1 in angle brackets to notate primary heading. |
| Web Information for sending files | Remote Host name, directory for personal web page, password, username, url |
| Paragraph | P - /p within angle brackets |
| Align attribute | align="left"; align="right"; align="center"; align="justigy" |
| Strong Emphasis | strong - /strong within angle brackets |
| Horizontal rule | Hr - no closing tag. Determine width as follows - hr width="50%" within angle brackets |
| Solid Line | Use noshate as follows - hr noshade - this is not in quotation marks. |
| Underline | u - /u within angle brackets |
| Headings | h1 - /h1; h2 - /h2; h3 - /h3; h4 - /h4 all within angle brackets. Headings from larger to lesser. |
| Blockquote | blockquote - /blockquote within angle brackets to set apart text between this tag set. |
| Lists, unordered tag | ul - /ul withing angle brackets |
| List Items | li - /li within angle brackets around each list item |
| Bullets | li type="circle" for open circle; li type="square" for square; li type="disc" for solid circle, each within angle brackets |
| Ordered Lists | ol - /ol within angle brackets within which the individual list items are placed as above. |
| Nested Lists | Nested lists can be obtained by placing ol tag around entire list and ul within specifi list items so that major list items would contain lists with their category. |
| Hyperlinks | These provide a way to move around from page to page within a web site and from web site to web site. |
| Index.html | This is in most instances the homepage or default page of a web site, consider it the table of contents. |
| Definitions Lists | Lists which are comprised of pairs. Use the dl - /dl within angle brackets surrounding the entire list. Use dt for the first part; use dd for the second part both within angle brackets. They need no end tabs |
| Background Color | Use the RGB values converted to the hexidecimal code instead of names. |
| Link colors | Links can change color using the RGB values. Link="color" is the color before a visitor clicks; alink="color" is the color when it is being clicked; vlink="color" is the color of an alreaady visited link. |
| Text Color | Text color can be changed with the RGB values - text="color" |