Web Design

Web Designing Vocabuary 

H. Nicholson

Memorial-High School

Port Arthur. Texas

< HTML > Begin the HTML page 

< HEAD > Begin the heading of the document

< TITLE > Designate the title of the page

< BODY > Begin the body of the document (BGCOLOR)

< H1 > Format a level 1 heading 

< H2 > Format a level 2 heading

< H3 > Format a level 3 heading

< H4 > Format a level 4 heading

< H5 > Format a level 5 heading

< H6 > Format a level 6 heading 

< BR > Add a line break

< P > Set apart a group of text as a paragraph (ALIGN)

< I > Format the text using italics 

< B > Format the text with boldface

< UL > Create an unordered  

< OL > Create an ordered list 

< LI > Specify a list item 

< FONT > Specify font charecteristics (FACE,COLOR)

< A > Designate a hyperlink (HREF, TARGET, NAME)

< IMG > Designate a hyperlink (SRC, ALT, HEIGHT, WIDTH, ALIGN, BORDER)

< TABLE > Designate an HTML table (BORDER, WIDTH, CELLPADDING, CELLSPACING)

< TR > Designate a table row (BGCOLOR)

< TD > Designate a table cell (COLSPAN, ALIGN, VALIGN, BGCOLOR, ROWSPAN)

< TH > Designate a table heading

< FRAMESET > Designate a frames page (COLS, ROWS)

< FRAME > Designate a frame within a frames page (SRC, NAME)

< NOFRAMES > Designate code that will be displayed if frames are not supported

< FORM > Designate the start of a form 

< INPUT > Designate a form element  

< SELECT > Designate a pull down menu 

< OPTION > Designate an item in a pull down menu 

< TEXTAREA > Designate a text area to insert text

Attribute - an addition to an HTML tag that is used to modify its properites 

Container Tags- tags that work in pairs usually with some other text or HTML in between them

Document type declaration DTD - Tells the browser what type of code to expect 

Empty tags- a tag that does not contain text 

HTML - Consists of a serioes of tags or codes that can be used in a web page to dispute attributes of a section of text

Hypertext- organization of units of information that can be concerned with links 

Ordered list- each item has a number instead of a bullet by it 

Source code- the source of what is eventually displayed on the screen 

Tags- codes

Unordered list- good for listing items whose order is not important 

Value - specifies that the paragraph be aligned to the center of the page