Web Design Vocabulary

WEB DESIGN VOCABULARY

 NETZ STYLEN VOKABULAR

made by Julian A. Alvarez

hergestellt von Julian A. Alvarez

< 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 list

< OL > Create an ordered list

< LI > Specify a list item

< FONT> Specify font characteristics

                FACE, COLOR

< A > Designate a hyperlink

         HREF, TARGET, NAME

< IMG > Designate an image

              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

                  ACTION, METHOD

< INPUT > Designate a form element

                  NAME, TYPE, VALUE

< SELECT > Designate a pull down menu

                      NAME

< OPTION > Designate an item in a pull-down menu

                     VALUE

< TEXTAREA > Designate a text area to insert text

                           NAME, ROWS, COLS

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

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

Document type declaration(DTD)- Tells the browser what type of document to expect

Empty Tags- a type of tag that does not contain text

HTML- a series of tags or codes that can be used in a Web page to designate attributes of a section of text

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

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

Source code- The HTML code

Tags- codes

Unordered list- a list with a bullet next to it

Value- what the attribute does

Absolute URL- one in which the protocol and Web server name is used

External Link- links to documents that reside on Web sites other than the one you are creating

Hyperlink- link to other webpages

Internal Link- links that are used to navigate between the pages of one site

Intrapage link- a link within one webpage

Link- a pointer to a document or file somewhere on the Web

Relative URL- one in which the document being linked to is described relative to another location

Thumbnail- a small image representation of a larger image

Cell- The area created by the intersection of a row and a column

Container- A page that will hold frames, such as the navigation bar and a main window

Frameset- the name given to a group of frames that act together to make up one Web page

Nested- Opening a new tag before closing the first one

Button- A form element that triggers the submission of data

Check box- are similar to radio buttons in that there are a set of predefined choices from which the user may make a selection; The user is allowed to choose more than one option

Form- an element on a Web page that is used to collect data from a Web site user

Hidden field- allows a value to be passed from the form to the page that is specified in the ACTION attribute without the knowledge of the Web user

Label- text that precedes each <INPUT> tag

Password field- a box into which anything the user types is replaced with asteriks

Pull-down menu- also called drop-down lists, are used when you do not want the user to type in his or her own data

Querystring- A portion at the end of the url when from data is submitted through the GET method

Radio button- a type of form element where the user is presented with a set of options from which to choose; The user is only allowed to choose one option

Text area- a large space in which a user can type his or her comments

Text box- a box into which the user can key text