<a>
Name: Anchor
Type: HTML Element
The <a> element is used to create hyperlinks to other resources. It is placed around text to produce a clickable area that will open the webpage or other link.
Example:
<a href="URL">Link Text</a>
Attributes:
href = URL of destination link
<body>
Type: HTML Element
The <body> element is used to enclose the main contents of the HTML webpage. Content inside the <body> element is generally the visible content on a webpage, while the content located outside the <body> element is not visible.
Attributes:
None
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<!DOCTYPE>
Type: XML Element
DOCTYPE is a bit different from the standard HTML Element. It is technically XML, not HTML, and thus capitalization matters. The position matters, as well. The single tag exists outside the <html> tags, and does not follow the standard rules of opening/closing tags that HTML tags do. It appears in the first line of a document.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<h1>
<h2>
<h3>
<h4>
<h5>
<h6>
Type: HTML Element
The heading elements are used for headline scripts within the webpage.
Headings create new lines separate from paragraphs,
and are a larger, bold text by default.
<h1> produces the largest text,
with <h2>, <h3>, and so on getting progressively smaller.
Compare to: <head>
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<head>
Type: HTML Element
The
element contains all the header elements for the webpage, such as the <title> element. Its content is not displayed on the page itself, and it is separate from the content found in the <body> element.Attributes:
None
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HTML
Type: Acronym / Terminology
The term HTML stanks for Hypertext (HT) Markup (M) Language (L). It is a coding language which wraps plain text with markup tags, encased in angle brackets, to display formatting. The term "hypertext" refers to the ability of HTML documents to connect to other documents through the ues of hyperlinks, or just "links", thru a clickable section in the document.
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<html>
Type: HTML Element
The <html> element encapsulates all the other HTML code on the page. The first tag will be <html>, with the last tag being </html>.
Example:
<html lang="en">
Attributes:
lang = specify language
| lang="en" | English |
| lang="en-US" | English (US specified) |
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html
Type: XML Attribute*
The html attribute* is used as part of the DOCTYPE declaration, specifying the document as a HTML document. It is used outside the standard HTML code, being used in XML instead, and so does not follow the typical conventions as HTML code. It is used in the first line of a HTML document, before any of the proceeding HTML tags, and so follows its own rules.
* Note: I am not familiar with XML, so my be misclassing what type of code this is. However, in the context of HTML, it would be considered an attribute. Thus, users can treat it in a similar manner.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
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Hyperlink
Type: Terminology
A hyperlink is a section of a particular document which can connect to another document. It allows a person viewing the document to switch over to view a separate document thru the hyperlink.
See: HTML
<img />
Type: HTML Element
The <img /> element displays an image on the webpage. The image element does not display independent from the surrounding text, expanding the current line of text to the size of the image.
Note:
A method will need to be used to separate an image from a nearby paragraph,
using either <p> or <div>.
Example:
<img src="w3schools.jpg" alt="W3Schools.com" width="104" height="142">
Attributes:
alt = alternate text if image file cannot be displayed
height = set specific height
src = URL for image file
width = set specific width
<ol>
Type: HTML Element
<ol> produces a number list.
The <li> element is used alongside <ol>
for the items in the list.
Example:
<ol>
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ol>
Also See:
<li>
<p>
Type: HTML Element
The <p> element is used to create a paragraph of text in a webpage.
Example:
<p>
The paragraph element is used to separate blocks of text.
Multiple sentences can be together in one paragraph,
although they will typically share a common idea.
</p>
<p>
New paragraphs in HTML display as new blocks of text with a blank line between them.
</p>
Attributes:
title = display text as a tooltip when mouseover
<title>
Type: HTML Element
The <title> element holds the title, which displays in the top of the tab or window. It is used within the <head> element.
Attributes:
None
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title
Type: HTML Attribute
The value of the title attribute will be displayed as a tooltip when you mouse over the element.
Example:
<p title="I'm a tooltip">This is a paragraph.</p>
<ul>
Type: HTML Element
<ul> produces a bulleted list.
The <li> element is used alongside <ul>
for the items in the list.
Example:
<ul>
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ul>
Also See:
<li>