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Visual Dictionary of HTML



Define HTML

  • HTML- HyperText Marker Language

  • WWW- World Wide Web

  • ASCII- American Standard Code for Information Intercharge

  • Hypertext (Hyperlink, link)- Text or image within HTML linkinkg to another document.

  • Text Editor - SimpleText or Script Editor on a Macintosh operating system, Notepad on Microsoft Windows. However, between Mac OS 9 and X is nearly different, SimpleText on OS X can't save as .html, only Script Editor.

  • Image Map - One image with hyperlinked quadrants (hot spots)

  • Element - Fundamental component of the structure of a text document.

  • Tags - used to denote vrious elements in the HTML document.

  • URL - Uniform Resource Locator. The address to any Internet site that is part of the WWW. (such as www.quickstudycharts.com)

  • Attribute - Additional information included inside te start tag.