Web Applications Sebesta 5e 2009 Chap 2

Distinguishes text that is computer code from normal language

Deprecated means that they will be dropped at some time in the future.

<! -- Anything except 2 adjacent dashes -- >

The <br/> tag inserts a single line break.

<a > - Links are specified in an attribute of an anchor tag (<a>), which is an inline tag. href specifies the target of the link.

The paragraph tag inserts a blank line.

In many cases the <blockquote> tag can be used for indenting the text on the left side, right side, or both. Another possibility is that the block is set in Italics.

GIF images · Support transparency · Uses 8 bit color representations for pixels, allowing a pixel to have 256 different colorsJPG images · Uses 24 bit color representations for pixels, which allows JPEG images to include more than 16 million different colors. · Better at shrinking an image than the one used by GIF – loses indiscernable colors · JPG is usually the preferred one.

When the target is a part of the fragment of another document, the name of the part is specified at the end of the URL, separated by a pound sign (#), like:
<a href = “AIDAN.html#avionics”> Avionics </a>

In its simplest form, the image tag includes two attributes:
o Src – specifies the file containing the image
o Alt – specifies the text displayed when the image does not display

Href

<h5> and <h6>

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If the target is in the same document as the link, the target is specified in the href attribute attribute value by preceding the id value with a pound sign (#), as in the following example:
<a href=”#avionics”>What about avionics?</a>

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