Web Design Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulary

Randy L.

Memorial High School

< 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

Attribute: 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

Attribute: 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

Attribute: FACE, COLOR

< A > Designate a hyperlink

Attribute: HREF, TARGET, NAME

< IMG > Designate an image

Attribute: SRC, ALT, HEIGHT, WIDTH, ALIGN, BORDER

< TABLE > Designate an HTML table

Attribute: BORDER, WIDTH, CELLPADDING, CELLSPACING

< TR > Designate a table row

Attribute: BGCOLOR

< TD > Designate a table cell

Attribute: COLSPAN, ALIGN, VALIGN, BGCOLOR, ROWSPAN

< TH > Designate a table heading

< FRAMESET > Designate a frames page

Attribute: COLS, ROWS

< FRAME > Designate a frame within a frames page

Attribute: SRC, NAME

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

< FORM > Designate the start of a form

Attribute: ACTION, METHOD

< INPUT > Designate a form element

Attribute: NAME, TYPE, VALUE

< SELECT > Designate a pull-down menu

Attribute: NAME

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

Attribute: VALUE

< TEXTAREA > Designate a text area to insert text

Attribute: NAME, ROWS, COLS

 Lesson 7 Vocabulary

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 in between them.

Document Type Declaration (DTD)- Basically tells the browser what type of document to expect.

Empty Tags- Refers to HTML coding where the line of code stands alone and is not closed with slash characters.

HTML- Hypertext Markup Language consists of 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- Used for items whose order does matter.

Source Code- HTML source code since it is the source of what is eventually displayed on the screen.

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

Unordered List- Good for listing items whose order is not important.

Value- Specifies that the paragraph be aligned in the center of the page.

 Lesson 8 Vocabulary

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- Links to other Web Pages

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

Intrapage Link- A link within one Web page

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

 Lesson 9 Vocabulary

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

Container- A page that will hold the frames

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

 Lesson 10 Vocabulary

Button- To submit the information in the form to the page defined by the ACTION attribute, you will need a button for the user to click

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

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- A form element used to indicate the user on what is expected to be typed in the text box

Password Field- Anything typed in this field will be replaced by asterisks so that anyone watching cannot see the text

Pull-down Menu-used when you do not want the user to type his or her own data. Rather, you want users to choose from a preset list of options that you provide

Querystring- A search word that is appended to the URL after a question mark

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

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