WEB DESIGN VOCABULARY

Web Design Vocabulary 

JKoven C.

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 -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 break

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

Format the text using italics

Format the text with boldface

< UL > Creat an unorderd list

< OL > Crat an orderd 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 a HTML table -BORDER,WIDTH,CELLPADDING,CELLSPACING

< TR > Designate a table row -BGCOLOR

< TD > Designate a table heading -COLSPAN,ALIGN,VALIGN,BGCOLOR,ROWSPAN

< TH > Designate a table heading

< FRAMESET > Designate a frame 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

(HTML) Hypertext Markup Language- a series of tags or codes that can be used in a web page to designate attributes of a section of text.

Container Tags- the heading tag has a starting tag and has an ending.

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

Empty Tags- a
tag that does not use a corresponding tag; it does not contain context.

Ordered List- each item have a number instead of a bullet (order is very important)

Source Code- the code that is displayed on the screen.

Tags- codes

Unordered List- items listed in any order it’s not important (most text have a bullet next to it.

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

Attribute- an addition to the HTML tag that is used to modify its properties (tells the browser to do something special to the text)

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, Intrapage links are often used in long documents that are divided into sections

Link: 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: An enclosed space in a table. Cells are forms by the intersection of rows and columns in an HTML table. They hold the data/content that makes up the table.

Container: The page in a frameset that defines the names and source files that will make up the frames page. This page is not displayed itself; rather it acts as a holder for the frames page.

Frameset: The collection of files that work together to produce a frames page.

Nested: Using an HTML tag inside another HTML container tag.

Button: for the user to click.

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: for the form element

Password field:  anything that a user types in a password field will be replaced by aterisks.

Pull-down menu: called drop-down lists

Querystring: 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