HTML and Web Pages Basics Flashcards

Grade 5 · Technology · Flashcards

Review key HTML tags, terms, and concepts used to build web pages.

Flashcards

HTML: HyperText Markup Language; the standard language for creating web pages.
<html>: The root tag that wraps all content in an HTML document.
<head>: Contains page metadata like the title; its contents are not directly visible on the page.
<body>: Contains all visible content of a web page such as text, images, and links.
<h1> to <h6>: Heading tags; <h1> is the largest and most important, <h6> is the smallest.
<p>: Tag used to define a paragraph of text.
<a>: Anchor tag used to create a clickable hyperlink to another page or URL.
<img>: Tag used to embed an image; uses src attribute to specify the image file.
Attribute: Extra information inside an opening tag that modifies an element, e.g., href='url'.
<!DOCTYPE html>: Declaration at the top of an HTML file telling the browser it is an HTML5 document.
<ul> and <ol>: <ul> creates an unordered (bulleted) list; <ol> creates an ordered (numbered) list.
<li>: List item tag; used inside <ul> or <ol> to define each item in a list.
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets; used with HTML to control the visual appearance of a web page.
JavaScript: A programming language added to web pages to create interactivity and dynamic behavior.