GMetrix Session 1 Vocabulary

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Body Tag

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A tag which contains everything that displays on the webpage. Most of the tags used in CSS are placed inside of a body tag.

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Closing Tag

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A tag that ends a section of page content, always proceeding the element with /.

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Comment

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A tool used to put placeholders in for text that will need to be added later to a webpage. It can also be used to explain parts of a webpage that do not display in a browser but will appear in a text editor. It will help any collaborative efforts to build a website.

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CSS

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A type of style sheet language which is used in web design to describe the presentation of a document that is written in a markup language, such as HTML5. It is the code used to format the text in a webpage.

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DOCTYPE Declaration

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This is not an HTML tag. It is 'information' directed to the browser about what kind of document to expect.

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Element

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Structured web page content defined by a start tag, some content, and an end tag.

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Entities

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Some characters are reserved in HTML, to display there must be a & and a ; or &# and ;.

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Head Tag

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A tag type which contains information that describes the webpage but does not show on the webpage.

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HTML Comment

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Added to HTML by using the following syntax: and can be used as a debugging tool to look for errors.

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HTML Tag

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A tag which contains data that makes up a webpage.