1)
What is HTML?
HTML is short for
HyperText Markup Language, and is the language of the World Wide Web. It is the
standard text formatting language used for creating and displaying pages on the
Web. HTML documents are made up of two things: the content and the tags that
formats it for proper display on pages.
2)
What are tags?
Content is placed in
between HTML tags 0in order to properly format it. It makes use of the less
than symbol (). A slash symbol is also used as a closing tag. For example:
[crayon-5460b56aaa96e528239727/]
3)
Do all HTML tags come in pair?
No, there are single
HTML tags that does not need a closing tag. Examples are the
tag and tags.
4)
What are some of the common lists that can be used when designing a page?
You can insert any or a
combination of the following list types:
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ordered list
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unordered list
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definition list
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menu list
-
directory list Each of this list types
makes use of a different tag set to compose
5)
How do you insert a comment in html?
Comments in html begins
with “”. For example: [crayon-5460b56aaa976937045998/]
6)
Do all character entities display properly on all systems?
No, there are some
character entities that cannot be displayed when the operating system that the
browser is running on does not support the characters. When that happens, these
characters are displayed as boxes.
7)
What is image map?
Image map lets you link
to many different web pages using a single image. You can define shapes in
images that you want to make part of an image mapping.
8
) What is the advantage of collapsing white space?
White spaces are blank
sequence of space characters, which is actually treated as a single space character
in html. Because the browser collapses multiple space into a single space, you
can indent lines of text without worrying about multiple spaces. This enables
you to organize the html code into a much more readable format.
9)
Can attribute values be set to anything or are there specific values that they
accept?
Some attribute values
can be set to only predefined values. Other attributes can accept any numerical
value that represents the number of pixels for a size.
10)
How do you insert a copyright symbol on a browser page?
To insert the copyright
symbol, you need to type © or & #169; in an HTML file.
11)
How do you create links to sections within the same page?
Links can be created
using the tag, with referencing through
the use of the number (#) symbol. For example, you can have one line as BACK TO
TOP, which would result in the words “BACK TO TOP” appearing on the webpage and
links to a bookmark named topmost. You then create a separate tag command
like somewhere on the top of the same
webpage so that the user will be linked to that spot when he clicked on “BACK
TO TOP”.
12)
Is there any way to keep list elements straight in an html file?
By using indents, you
can keep the list elements straight. If you indent each subnested list in
further than the parent list that contains it, you can at a glance determine
the various lists and the elements that it contains.
13)
If you see a web address on a magazine, to which web page does it point?
Every web page on the
web can have a separate web address. Most of these addresses are relative to
the top-most web page. The published web address that appears within magazines
typically points this top-most page. From this top level page, you can access
all other pages within the web site.
14)
What is the use of using alternative text in image mapping?
When you use image
maps, it can easily become confusing and difficult to determine which hotspots
corresponds with which links. Using alternative text lets you put a descriptive
text on each hotspot link.
15)
Do older html files work on newer browsers?
Yes, older html files
are compliant to the HTML standard. Most older files work on the newer
browsers, though some features may not work.
16)
Does a hyperlink apply to text only?
No, hyperlinks can be
used on text as well as images. That means you can convert an image into a link
that will allow user to link to another page when clicked. Just surround the
image within the … tag combinations.
17)
If the user’s operating system does not support the needed character, how can
the symbol be represented?
In cases wherein their
operating system does not support a particular character, it is still possible
to display that character by showing it as an image instead.
18)
How do you change the number type in the middle of a list?
The tag includes two
attributes – type and value. The type attribute can be used to change the
numbering type for any list item. The value attribute can change the number
index.
19)
What are style sheets?
Style sheets enable you
to build consistent, transportable, and well-defined style templates. These
templates can be linked to several different web pages, making it easy to
maintain and change the look and feel of all the web pages within a site.
20)
What bullet types are available?
With ordered lists, you
can select to use a number of different list types including alphabetical and
Roman numerals. The type attribute for unordered lists can be set to disc,
square, or circle.
21)
How do you create multicolored text in a webpage?
To create text with
different colors, use the … tags for every character that you want to apply a
color. You can use this tag combination as many times as needed, surrounding a
single character or an entire word.
22)
Why are there both numerical and named character entity values?
The numerical values
are taken from the ASCII values for the various characters, but these can be
difficult to remember. Because of this, named character entity values were
created to make it easier for web page designers to use.
23)
Write a HTML table tag sequence that outputs the following: 50 pcs 100 500 10
pcs 5 50
Answer:
[crayon-5460b56aaa97b118168849/]
24)
What is the advantage of grouping several checkboxes together?
Although checkboxes don’t
affect one another, grouping checkboxes together helps to organize them.
Checkbox buttons can have their own name and do not need to belong to a group.
A single web page can have many different groups of checkboxes.
25)
What will happen if you overlap sets of tags?
If two sets of html
tags are overlapped, only the first tag will be recognized. You will recognize
this problem when the text does not display properly on the browser screen.
26)
What are applets?
Applets are small
programs that can be embedded within web pages to perform some specific
functionality, such as computations, animations, and information processing.
Applets are written using the Java language.
27)
What if there is no text between the tags or if a text was omitted by mistake?
Will it affect the display of the html file?
If there is no text
between the tags, then there is nothing to format, so no formatting will
appear. Some tags, especially tags without a closing tag like the
tag, do not require any
text between them.
28)
Is it possible to set specific colors for table borders?
You can specify a
border color using style sheets, but the colors for a table that does not use
style sheets will be the same as the text color.
29)
How do you create a link that will connect to another web page when clicked?
To create hyperlinks,
or links that connect to another web page, use the href tag. The general format
for this is: text Replace “site” with the actual page url that is supposed to
be linked to when the text is clicked.
30)
What other ways can be used to align images and wrap text?
Tables can be used to
position text and images. Another useful way to wrap text around an image is to
use style sheets.
31)
Can a single text link point to two different web pages?
No. The tag can accept only a single href attribute,
and it can point to only a single web page.
32)
What is the difference between the directory and menu lists and the unordered
list?
The key differences is
that the directory and menu lists do not include attributes for changing the
bullet style.
33)
Can you change the color of bullets?
The bullet color is
always the same as that of the first character in the list litem. If you
surround the and the first character with a set of tags with the color attribute set, the bullet
color and the first character will be a different color from the text.
34)
What are the limits of the text field size?
The default size for a
text field is around 13 characters, but if you include the size attribute, you
can set the size value to be as low as 1. The maximum size value will be
determined by the browser width. If the size attribute is set to 0, the size
will be set to the default size of 13 characters.