Glossary
This is the glossary of terms to use and know:
Terms
- charset — a standardized collection of characters (letters, numbers, symbols) and their assigned numeric codes, acting as a "dictionary" for computers to understand text, with common examples like ASCII and the universal Unicode (UTF-8)
- css — Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is the language used to define the presentation and visual styling of webpages.
- HTML — HTML is the standard markup language for Web pages.
- hyperlink — a clickable element, such as underlined text or an image, that takes you to another web page, file, or resource when clicked
- tag — A tag is a piece of markup code, enclosed in angle brackets (‹ ›), used to indicate the beginning and end of an HTML element. Tags are the fundamental building blocks that give structure and meaning to content on a web page, telling the web browser how to display the text, images, and other media.
HTML Tags
(ordered alphabetically)
- ‹!DOCTYPE› — Defines the document type for an internet browser
- ‹a› — Defines a hyperlink
- ‹body› — Defines the document's body
- ‹div› — Defines a section in a document
- ‹footer› — Defines a footer for a document or section
- ‹h1› to ‹h6› — Defines HTML headings
- ‹head› — Contains metadata/information for the document
- ‹header› — Defines a header for a document or section
- ‹html› — Defines the root of an HTML document
- ‹img› — Defines an image
- ‹li› — Defines a list item
- ‹link› — Defines the relationship between a document and an external resource (most used to link to style sheets)
- ‹main› — Specifies the main content of a document
- ‹meta› — Defines metadata about an HTML document
- ‹ol› — Defines an ordered list
- ‹p› — Defines a paragraph
- ‹source› — Defines multiple media resources for media elements (‹video› and ‹audio›)
- ‹strong› — Defines important text
- ‹style› — Defines style information for a document
- ‹title› — Defines a title for the document
- ‹tr› — Defines a row in a table
- ‹u› — Defines some text that is unarticulated and styled differently from normal text
- ‹ul› — Defines an unordered list