Web design vocabulary

Web design vocabulary

Sergio Sanchez

Memorial High School

< HTML >  Being 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, HIEGHT, 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- Is an addition to an HTML tag that is used to modify its properties.

Container tags- These tags work in pairs usually with some other text or HTML in between them.

Document type declaration (DTD)-It basically tells the browser what type of document to expect.

Empty tags- Does not contain text.

HTML- Consists a series of tags.

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, used for items whose order does matter.

Source code- Plain text with HTML tags scattered in it.

Tags- Codes that can be used in a Web page to designate attributes of a section of text.

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

Value- The value specifies that the paragraph be aligned in the center of the page.

Button- Is a submit button that you can click if you decide to clear the contents of the form and start over.

Check Box- are similar to radio buttons in that there are a set of predefined choices from which the user may make a selection.

Form- is 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- descriptive text placed in a cell.

Password field- Anything that a user types will be replaced by asterisks.

Pull down menu- Are used when you do not want the user to type in his or her own data.

Querystring- Is appended to the URL after a question mark.

Radio button- Are another type of form element where the user is presented with a set of options from which to choose.

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

Text box- form element is a box into which the user can key text.

Cell- Area created by the intersection of a row and a column.

Container- Holds the frames.

Frameset- The name given to a group that act together to make up on web page.

Nested- <TR> and <TD> tags that make up a table.

Absolute URL- Is one in which the protocol and web server name is used.

External link- Are links to documents that reside on web sites other than the one you are creating.

Hyperlink- Links to other web pages.

Internal link- Links that are used to navigate the pages of one site.

Intrapage link- Is a link within one web page.

Link- A pointer to a document or file somewhere on the web.

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

Thumbnail- Is a small image representation of a larger image.