Tuesday, October 25, 2011

lesson 1

What is HTML?  A simple scripting language.

What does HTML stand for?  HTML is short for HyperText Markup Language. 

What type of document is HTML?  Basically an HTML document is a plain text file that contains text and nothing else.

What happens when a browser opens an HTML file?  When a browser opens an HTML file, the browser will look for HTML codes in the text and use them to change the layout, insert images, or create links to other pages.

What does the acronym WYSIWYG stand for?  ("What You See Is What You Get").

What do you think is the advantage of using a WYSIWYG editor?  It's a more popular choice to use as a special HTML editor, and it puts focus on he visual result rather than the codes.

What are three benefits of knowing HTML?  You can use tags the editor does not support, you can read the code of other people's pages and borrow the cool effects, and you can do the work yourself when the editor simply refuses to create the effects you want.

What is another name for a Tag?  A markup

Why are tags used?  To tell the browser that an "A" should be bold, italic, big or small.  

What do you use to enclose HTML Tags?  All HTML tags are enclosed in < and >

What is the difference between a start tag and an end tag?  As you can see, the start tag <b> indicates that whatever follows should be written in bold. The corresponding end tag </b> indicates that the browser should stop writing text in bold. 

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