| Question: |
Do all character entities display properly on all systems? |
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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. |
| Question: |
Can a single text link point to two different web pages? |
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No. The <a> tag can accept only a single href attribute, and it can point to only a single web page. |
| Question: |
Are <br> tags the only way to separate sections of text? |
| Answer: |
No. The <br> tag is only one way to separate lines of text. Other tags, like the <p> tag and <blockquote> tag, also separate sections of text. |
| Question: |
Can attribute values be set to anything or are there specific values that they accept? |
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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. |
| Question: |
Do style sheets limit the number of new style definitions that can be included within the brackets? |
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Style sheets do not limit the number of style definitions that can be included within the brackets for a given selector. Every new style definition, however, must be separated from the others by a semicolon symbol. |
| Question: |
What are style sheets? |
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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. |
| Question: |
What other ways can be used to align images and wrap text? |
| Answer: |
Tables can be used to position text and images. Another useful way to wrap text around an image is to use style sheets. |
| Question: |
HTML language is a set of ________ |
| Answer: |
tags |
| Question: |
What are tags? |
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Text/content is placed in between HTML tags in order to properly format it. It makes use of the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>). A slash symbol is also used as a closing tag. For example: <b>bold text</b> |
| Question: |
How do you change the number type in the middle of a list? |
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The <li> 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. |
| Question: |
What is the advantage of collapsing white space? |
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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. |
| Question: |
What happens if the number of values in the rows or cols attribute doesn’t add up to 100 percent? |
| Answer: |
The browser sizes the frames relative to the total sum of the values. If the cols attribute is set to 100%, 200%, the browser displays two vertical frames with the second being twice as big as the first. |
| Question: |
How to change the color of bullets? |
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The bullet color is always the same as that of the first character in the list item. If you surround the <li> and the first character with a set of <font> tags with the color attribute set, the bullet color and the first character will be a different color from the text. |
| Question: |
How are active links different from normal links? |
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The default color for normal and active links is blue. Some browsers recognize an active link when the mouse cursor is placed over that link; others recognize active links when the link has the focus. Those that don’t have a mouse cursor over that link is considered a normal link. |
| Question: |
What are the limits of the text field size? |
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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. |
| Question: |
What is the difference between the directory and menu lists and the unordered list? |
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The key differences is that the directory and menu lists do not include attributes for changing the bullet style. |
| Question: |
Why are there both numerical and named character entity values? |
| Answer: |
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. |
| Question: |
Not supported charecters on browser/OS how they display? |
| Answer: |
These characters are displayed as boxes. |
| Question: |
Who developed the HTML? |
| Answer: |
Tim Berners-Lee |
| Question: |
How do you create a text on a webpage that will allow you to send an email when clicked? |
| Answer: |
To change a text into a clickable link to send email, use the mailto command within the href tag. The format is as follows: <A HREF=”mailto:toemailaddress”>display text</A> |
| Question: |
How do you create a link that will connect to another web page when clicked? |
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To create hyperlinks, or links that connect to another web page, use the href tag. The general format for this is: <a href=”anothersiteURL”>display text</a> |
| Question: |
How do you create multicolored text in a webpage? |
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To create text with different colors, use the <font color=”color”>…</font> 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. |
| Question: |
How to insert a copyright symbol on a page? |
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To insert copyright symbol, you need to type © or & #169; in an HTML file. |
| Question: |
How to define comments in HTML |
| Answer: |
Use tags <!--> <!-- this line is comment> |
| Question: |
What is the use of using alternative text in image mapping? |
| Answer: |
Using alternative text lets you put a descriptive text on each hotspot link. And it also helps in google search to search your image. |
