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- web server
- Web servers store and serve web pages, which are created from HTML and CSS. Browsers retrieve pages and render their content based on the HTML and CSS.
- web browser
- Browsers make requests for HTML pages, and they can also request from other sources like images.
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language. It tells the browser what it needs to know to display your page.
- HTML comment
- HTML comments are not rendered by the browser you can use them by putting a less than sign next to an exclamation mark and two dashes, then your comment, and to close it, you put two dashes and a greater than sign.
- HTML element
- Element = Opening Tag + Content + Closing Tag
- HTML tag
- Tags tell the browser about the structure and meaning of your text. They are words or characters surrounded by angled brackets.
- HTML content
- The information that goes in between the tags(this would be content).
- HTML style element
- The HTML style element defines the style information for a document.
- style element
- It contains the CSS code to make a website look good.
- CSS
- Gives you a way to describe how your content should be presented. Used inside the style element.
- Color hex codes
- A combo of letters and numbers that you use to specify a color. It has a # before it.
- link element
- The link element is used to take you to different pages. Use the a tag and put the text you want for the link inside. Inside the first tag after the a but before the greater than sign, add herf="this is where you specify the destination of the link" (herf is an attribute).
- attribute
- Attributes give you a way to specify additional information about an element. Example: Type attribute specifies a style.
- attribute-value pair
- All attributes have values that are enclosed in double-quotes.
- href attribute
- Tells us the destination of a hyperlink.
- subdirectory (a.k.a. folder)
- A directory inside another directory.
- path
- The way you get from your page to the destination file. It can be going up or down as many directories as you want.
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