Lesson 1 Important vocab
- HTML5
- Markup language used for structuring and describing Web page content.
Was the first to provide a lot of things such a video and audio
elements.
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Style sheet language that provides the formatting and “look" of a Web page or document written in a markup language
- JavaScript
- Scripting language that provides dynamic, interactive capabilities to Web pages
- Hyperlinks
- Embedded instructions within a file that link it to another point in the file or to a separate file.
- Hypertext Markup Language
- The traditional authoring language used to develop Web pages for many applications.
- XHTML
- Similar to HTML5 but has much, much more strict syntax rules
- Geolocation
- Allows developers to retrieve the geographical location information for a Web site visitor
- HTML Elements
- Defined by a open and closing tag. They are used to create websites in HTML
- header
- Defines the top of the Web page, similar to the header in a word-processing document. Also can be contained in article, aside, nav, main and section elements to provide a header in those areas
- Main
- Defines the main content of the document body. Cannot be the child of the header, nav, article, aside or footer elements
- Nav
- Defines an area for navigation links
- Section
- Defines portions or areas of a document as necessary. Can group other element types
- Article
- Defines site content accompanying the main content
- Aside
- Defines content that is aside from or additional to the main article content, Not just for sidebars, it can be used for any content
- Footer
- Defines the bottom of the Web page, similar to the footer in a
word-processing document. Also can be contained in article, aside, nav, main and section elements to provide a footer in those areas
- Code validation
- The process of checking your code to verify that it complies with the syntax rules for your chosen standard.
- Application programming interface
- source code specification that enables components of an application or program to work together to produce the desired functionality
- Canvas
- An HTML5 API used for rendering visual images on the fly by providing a bitmap area for scripts