Glossary
Symbols
* - An asterisk is a star shaped symbol used to represent a letter in a password box.
• - A bullet is another symbol used for representing a letter in a password box.
@ - An 'at sign' points to a domain when using email addresses in a mailto: tag.
& - Usually used as the start of a character used in the coding in HTML. (e.g. > = & gt; with no spaces.)
" " - Quotation Marks, in a tag, quotation marks are put around any attribute so the parser knows to execute a certain attribute.
(e.g. <img src="img.extension" alt="Image"> would make an image appear with an alternate text of 'Image'.)
; - Semicolons are the ending part of a character used in the coding in HTML. (e.g. > = > ; with no spaces.) Semicolons are also used to seperate different attributes in the image tag.
: - Colons are used to designate who the email is going to in a mailto tag (e.g. mailto:.)
< - A 'less than' sign, it is the first part of an individual tag (e.g. <html>.)
> - A 'greater than' sign, it is the last part of an individual tag (e.g. <html>.)
/ - Closes a tag when placed in front of a tag, (e.g. <html> is an open tag. </html> is its closed equivalent.)
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<a> - An anchor tag. The basic part of a hyperlink, all hyperlinks are opened with an a tag. (e.g. <a href="http://www.angelfire.com">)
Absolute URL - The link to a website contained in a hyperlink.
Action - The attribute that tells a form tag what to do with its information.
Active Link - A link that you just clicked on that causes another page to be loaded.
Align - Where the text or image is located on a website on the horizontal axis. The three different alignments are left, center, and right.
alt - An image attribute that displays an alternate text if the image cannot be loaded for any reason.
Anchored Internal Link - A hyperlink to another point on the same page instead of to an email address or another page.
Autostart - Autostart is an attribute used when embedding multimedia like sound or a video to determine whether it will start automatically once the page is loaded, or after a button is pushed.
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<b> - Makes bold face type instead of plain text (e.g. This is plain text. This is bold face text.)
<bgsound> - A tag to embed a sound file that will play in the background of the website when the page is loaded.
<br> - Functions much like pressing [enter] on your keyboard. Drops the text or image down one line on the monitor.
<body> - The main part of the website, where the most content goes. The body also has many attributes including: bgcolor, alink, vlink, and link.
border - Creates a border around an image defined in pixels, inches, centimeters, or points.
<button> - This tag creates a button that can perform a function when clicked on.
Browser - A tool that usually has a user interface that is used to display the content of a website. (i.e. Microsoft® Internet Explorer®, Opera®, et cetra.)
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Cell - Each individual sectioned off area of a table.
CGI - Stands for "Common Gateway Interface" and is a programming language. It is used most commonly to process data in forms.
Checked Attribute - Makes a check box checked when the page is opened.
Check Box - A form object composed of a box that can be selected or unselected.
Client - A computer or workstation that relies on a server to get the information to view a document or web page.
col - An attribute that designates how many characters wide a <textarea> box is.
Control - The general term for the field or box in a form into which information is entered.
Core Tags - The four tags that all websites need. These include the: <html> tag, <head> tag, <title> tag, and the <body> tag; including their closing tags.
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Domain Name - A name that is designated to a URL, an example of this is the http://www.angelfire.com name. The name angelfire is the domain name, the domain goes in-between the suffix and the 'http://www.'
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<embed> - Allows for a sound, video or some other sort of file to be viewed on a website providing the viewer has the proper software to view the embedded file.
Element(s) - Anything that can be seen and takes up room on a web-site, but is not a constant (like a background).
Embedding - Adding code, sound files, video files, or anything of any other language into a HTML document or website.
Encrypt - Translating data into a more secure format in order to keep your privacy when sending information through the internet.
Enctype Attribute - Stands for "encryption type" and tells the computer how to encrypt text in password and text boxes.
External Link - A link to another website, it may or may not be on the same domain. An example of this is a link from https://www.angelfire.com/mn3/bpa/home.html, to https://www.angelfire.com/mn3/bpa/glossary.html, or any other website on any domain.
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<fieldset> - The <fieldset> tag is used to group form objects together.
<form> - The tag that allows you to create forms with objects like radio buttons and check boxes.
Form - A document that someone fills out to give information to a company or person.
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Glossary - A list of terms and their definitions, (much like the one you're reading now!)
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<h> - This tag enlarges or shrinks the size of the text.
<head> - The part of a website that is near the top, it contains the title tag, and/or a viewable title of the website in the heading of the page. The head also executes the code that needs to be executed first, first.
<hr> - Creates a horizontal rule on the web page. The rule can be placed anywhere on the page.
Height - An attribute used on variable elements to specify the vertical dimension of it in inches, centimeters, pixels, or points.
Hexadecimal - Hexadecimal is a six number coding system using the numbers 0-9 and the letters a-f. These are placed in three two number clusters: the red cluster or the first two numbers, the green cluster or the second two numbers, and the blue cluster or the last two numbers. Hexadecimal is abbreviated as hex, but that abbreviation isn't well accepted yet.
<HTML> - The HTML Tag, this tag is the beginning of the website, without it, the site cannot function because the browser does not know the language the site is in. This is one of the four core tags.
HTML - HTML or HyperText Markup Language, is the language you are being taught in this tutorial. It is an accepted language for coding websites.
href - This is an attribute that stands for hyper reference. This attribute is part of the A Tag, when used in conjunction with the a tag it is used to target the website you are going to go to. The href attribute serves no other purposes.
hspace - Hspace is an attribute used to give an element space on its left and right sides, useful for letting text flow around an element. Define the space in inches, centimeters, points, or pixels.
Hyperlink - Any link to another site, page, or email address. Hyperlinks are underlined on the page, and the default color for hyperlinks is blue.
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<i> - Italicizes text. (e.g. This is plain text This is italicized text.)
<input> - Allows you to specify text input fields, radio buttons, check boxes, and selection lists
<img> - The image tag. This tag is used to insert images into your webpage. (e.g. <img src="image.extension">)
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Java - Java is an image based programming language that is frequently used in websites. It is used most frequently in drop down tree menus and other navigation mediums, but can be used to make other things such as chat rooms roll over graphic changes or anything else you can think of.
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<legend> - <legend> is the tag used to make a title for a field of a form and all text or images between the <legend> and </legend> tags appear as the title.
Link - The abbreviated term for the word hyperlink.
Loop - Instructions or code that are repeated until a condition is met.
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Mailto: - When used in conjunction with the a tag and the href attribute, the mailto: attribute is used to target an email address instead of a website in a hyperlink. (e.g. <a href=" mailto:johnsmith@emailprovider.com">)
Menu - A drop down option selector.
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Name - The attribute that individualizes form objects.
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<option> - Used to specify the options in a drop down box.
<optgroup> - Separates groups of <option>s.
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<p> - The <p> tag functions much like the <br> tag. The <p> tag leaves two lines, whereas the <br> tag enters once.
Parser - A parser is a program inside of the browser that decodes and reads the code of the html document and translates it into the readable text or viewable images.
Password Box - A text box that encrypts the letters to be asterisks or bullets.
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Radio - A round button similar to check boxes, however, in a group only one radio button may be selected.
row - An attribute that designates how many characters high a <textarea> box is.
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<select> - The tag that creates a drop down menu.
Server - The computer that holds a webpage on the internet which is accessed everytime you go to that site.
Script - The script is the actual text used to code the HTML. This is what is read by the parser.
Scroll Bar - A bar along the edge of a window that allows you to move up and down or left and right in that window.
src - The src= attribute is used in the <img> tag, the <bgsound> tag, the <embed> tag and many others. This attribute is used to target the specific location of a file. (e.g. <img src="https://www.angelfire.com/mn3/bpa/images/shell.jpg">.)
Syntax - The syntax is the set of rules that the parser follows in order to decode the script.
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<textarea> - Allows for the creation of a large text window.
<title> - The title tag is how the browser knows what to display as the title of a document in the title bar of the browser.
Tag(s) - A tag is any accepted word or mnemonic used in the HTML sytax set in-between a less-than (<) symbol and a greater-than (>) symbol.
Text Area - A large box that allows for 32,700 characters.
Text Box - Used to enter short segments of text, like a user name.
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<u> - The U tag makes text underlined. (e.g. This is plain text. This is underlined text.)
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Visited Link - A hyperlink to a page that you have already "visited". It is usually designated with a different color; the default is maroon.
vlink - This attribute of the <body> tag defines the color of visited links.
vspace - The vspace attribute leaves space on top and bottom of an element.
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Website - Interconnected webpages with a homepage on the same server, prepared and maintained as a collection of information.
Webpage - An HTML document and related files or scripts on the World Wide Web
width - Use this attribute to specify the horizontal distance an element should cover (its width). Define width in inches, centimeters, pixels, or points.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)- The World Wide Web Consortium is a group that makes the standards and creates the syntax for online languages.
WYSIWYG- What You See Is What You Get editors are editors like Microsoft Front Page, Dreamweaver, or Hot Dog Express. Editors like this tend to add a lot more code than is needed to do a function, but for novices it can be a good place to start and analyze the code.
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