Terminology 2

also see: Terms 1

(X)HTML: (Extended) Hyper Text Markup Language - the new standard. To conform, use lowercase commands and close all tags.


Tag: The (X)HTML keyword
Attribute: An aspect of the tag that is being set
Value: one of the available options to set the Attribute to
Block: Block elements, like <p>, do their job in a block - by starting a new line and ending on a new line.
Inline: Most other elements are Inline elements, like <span>, and do their job without starting a new line
Parent: The relationship of two HTML elements where one contains another
Child: The relationship of two HTML elements where one is inside, or contained in another

ASCII: American Standard Code for
Information Interchange - the computer's numerical representation of the alphanumeric character set including special characters. Examples: "A" is "41" in hexadecimal ASCII; "1" is"31"; "+" is "2B" (see ASCII table)

CSS: Cascading Style Sheet (design)

h1 { color: red }

Selector

Defines the HTML elements to style

Property

Defines the CSS property belonging to the Selector

Value

Is one of available options to set the CSS property to

Hexadecimal

Base 16 number system utilizing 0-9 and A-F to represent the 16 numbers. This numbers system is commonly used by today's computers as a convenient shorthand for binary.

Special Character "&"

a symbol followed by a keyword and a semi-colon indicating an allowed non-ASCII character. Some common examples are:

          © is written &copy;
          ® is written &reg;
          é is written &eacute; 
          & is written &amp;
          ° is written &deg;

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