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HTML / CSS Review Questions

Open the Web Dev Course notes side-by-side with these questions. Pick random ones and quiz each other. Try to guess an answer together, then look it up in the notes.

If an answer still doesn't make sense, you can't find it, or you just find it interesting, type it into the class discord channel.

HTML Questions

  • What are some drawbacks to comparing your learning process to others?
    • Either according to Brian Holt, or your own experience.
  • What does someone look like who can become a successful web developer working for a software company?
  • What website is a good reference for HTML, CSS, and JS documentation for web development, and which company makes it?
  • What is the recommended text editor used in this course?
  • If you learn Spanish, it makes it easier to learn Italian. What is this analogy mean in terms of this course?
  • If the following HTML, which tag is a child of the previous tag? (these are not real HTML tags names, but the format with the angle brackets and closing slash are the same)
	<afro>
			<futurism>
				<janelle>
					<monae>
					</monae>
				</janelle>
			</futurism>
		</afro>

  • What is the example used for a website combining HTML, Javascript, and CSS?

    • a house
    • a bicycle
    • a car
    • a tractor
    • a company

  • Why is HTML not technically a programming language?

  • In the following HTML example what are one or more examples of a tag name?

<trap>
  <jazz>
  </jazz>
</trap>
  • In the following HTML example which tags are siblings (have the same parent)?
<atlanta>
  <braves>
  </braves>
</atlanta>
<seattle>
  <seahawks>
  </seahawks>
  <mariners>
  </mariners>
</seattle>
  • What is the name of a generic tag in HTML that can be used for anything?
  • Do all open tags have a closing tag?
  • What is the closing tag for a tag called <apron>
  • What does the phrase "The most recently opened tag is the only one that can be closed?" mean in terms of the following HTML?
  • Will text in an <h5> tag appear larger or smaller, usually, than an <h2> tag?
  • What are some levels of header tags in HTML?
  • What does the <p> mean?
  • Why might it be desirable to develop websites with three different languages instead of just one language? What might it be undesirable?
  • What is wrong with the following sample of HTML?
<html>
<body>
</html>
</body>
  • What does the tag mean?
  • What are some attributes in the following?
<div style="foo"></div>

  • What is the difference between a and a

    ?

  • What does it mean that a browser "renders" HTML text for a user?

  • What does the <ol> tag mean?

  • What does the <ul> tag mean?

  • If

  • What is the analogy used for a ?

    • a box
    • a tupperware container
    • a ziploc bag
    • saran wrap

  • What does the tag mean?

  • What does the tag mean?

  • What are two uses of the alt attribute for the img tag?

  • If there is an image you want to include located on the web at https://abc.com/dog.png , how would you create an image tag that references this image as a source?

  • Name as many types for the <input> tag as possible

  • What is the <textarea> for, where have you seen it used?

  • What is the <select> and <option> tags used for?

  • What is the tag that groups together <input> tags.

  • What is a tag that you can use to label or caption a surrounding parent tag, like an input group?

  • What are three kinds of tags associated with tabular data in HTML?

  • How do you begin and end a comment block in HTML?

  • What are three reasons to use comments in your HTML?

  • Does HTML respect your newlines? for example

    • 	<p>
	  I am the very model of a

		modern major

         artificial general intelligence algorithm.
	</p>
    • How can you insert a newline (linebreak) between two blocks of text?
    • How do you write a self-closing tag (a tag that does not have separate open or close tags)
    • Why do you think tags like <blink> <br/> and <marquee> are deprecated and no longer used?
    • Why would web browsers continue to support old / deprecated tags and attempt to render them, if they are no longer a best practice?
    • Match up the following attributes to the tags they are normally used with
      • tags
        • <img>
        • <a>
      • attributes
        • < ... href="..." >
        • < ... src="..." >
    • What of the attributes below lets you connect HTML tags (the document structure) with CSS styles (how to display it and change its appearance)?
    	<img
	    src="path-to-cat.png"
      class="hero-image"
      data-blah="custom"
	/>

    • What is the bare minimum valid HTML page you can have? (fewest tags)

    • What are two differences between the contents of <head> and the contents of <body>?

    • What is the meaning of a

      tag, especially if it has a <ul> or <li>'s in it?

    • What is the difference between a <div>, <article>, or <section>? Give an example from an actual website where each tag is well suited (or not) in addition to your

    • What are three kinds of meta tags and how would they influence how users find your website or how they experience it?

    CSS Questions

    To be added

    Javascript Questions

    To be added

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