Web Design Vocabulary

Giamanti Najar

Memorial High School

Port Arthur, TX

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  • HTML Cheat Sheet

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  • Unit 3 Vocabulary

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  • <HTML> - Begins the HTML page
  • <HEAD> - Begin the heading of the document
  • <TITLE> - Designate the title of the page 
  • <BODY> - Begin the body of the document.
  • <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
  • <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 characters
  • <A> - Designate a hyperlink
  • <IMG> - Designate an image
  • <TABLE> - Designate an HTML table
  • <TR> - Designate a table row
  • <TD> - Designate a table cell
  • <TH> - Designate a table heading
  • <FRAMESET> - Designate a frames page
  • <FRAME> - Designate a frame within a frames page
  • <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.
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  • Tags- codes that can be used in a web-page to designate attributes of a section of text.
  • Source code- HTML source code (it is in the source of what is eventually displayed on the screen.)
  • Hypertext- organization of units of info. that can be connected with links.
  • Container tags- tags that work in pairs usually with some other text or HTML between them.
  • Document Type Declaration (DTD)- the line of code was not in the template that you created earlier.
  • Transitional- Indicates that some older tags that are not HTML 4.01 compliant might be used on this page.
  • Attribute- an addition to an HTML tag that is used to modify its properties.
  • Value- specifies that the paragraph be aligned in the center of the page.
  • http- an attribute.
  • Content-type- the value of that attribute.
  • unordered list- good for listing items whose order is not important.
  • ordered list- each item has a number instead of a bullet by it. 
  • Empty tag- when the <BR> tag does not use a corresponding </BR> tag.
  • Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)- consists of a series of tags or codes that can be used in a Web page to designate attributes or a section of text.
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  1. Form- an element on a web page that is used to collect data from a web site user.
  2. Querystring- the search word in this case is "computers" and it was appended to the URL after a question mark.
  3. Password field- Anything that the user types in the password field will be replaced by asterisks so that anyone watching cannot see the text.
  4. Pull-down menus- (drop-down lists) are used when you do not want the user to type in his or her own data.
  5. Radio buttons- another type of form element where the user is presented with a set of options which to choose.
  6. Check boxes- similar to radio buttons in that there are a set of predefined choices from which the user may make a selection. May select more than one option.
  7. Text area- a large space in which a user can type his or her comments.
  8. 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. 
  9. Button- needed in order to submit the info. in the form to the page defined by the action attricute, for the user to click.
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  1. Hyperlinks- links to other pages.
  2. Link- a pointer to a document or file somewhere on the internet.
  3. External Links- links to documents that reside on Web sites other than the one you are creating.
  4. HREF- hypertext reference.
  5. http:// - hypertext transfer protocol.
  6. internal links- links that are used to navigate between the pages of one site.
  7. absolute URL- one in which the protocol and web server name is used.
  8. Relative URL- one in which the document being linked to is described relative to another location. 
  9. Intrapage link- a link within one web page. 
  10. thumbnail- a small image representation of a larger image.
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  1. Cell- area created by intersection of a row and column
  2. Container- always needed to hold all the frames in a frameset.
  3. Frameset- group of frames that act together to make up one Web page.
  4. Nested- opening a new tag before closing the first one. 
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