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Web Development

Subject : it-skills
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1. Define a .gif image.






2. A cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML and XHTML and XML documents.






3. Which tag has the largest size?






4. This provides a warning if the resource being asked for is not present...still tries to display data.






5. Write the code to link to a folder named "school" within the website "basicversity".






6. Define "web safe colors".






7. A way to make elements inline but preserving their block capabilities.






8. When is FTP used?






9. When do you use the "a: link"?






10. When do you use the "a: active"?






11. In CSS the possible values for the display attribute that are supported by all browsers are none - block - inline - _____ - run-in






12. What does float allow you to do?






13. A piece of text stored on a user's computer by their web browser - used for authentication or storing site preferences or shopping cart contents or the identifier for a server-based session or anything else that can be accomplished through storing t






14. What is the purpose of the <!doctype> tag?






15. Opposite of left join






16. What separates the element content and the border in CSS?






17. When is FTP used?






18. Write the code to link to: www.basicversity.com






19. When is best to use the <ol> tag?






20. Which heading tag has the smallest size?






21. When is best to use the <ol> tag?






22. Where should you place a navigation bar?






23. What is a box model?






24. What type of image is best if a web page requires a photograph?






25. Recognized natively by JavaScript. No need for parsing an XML document to extract the data and get it throught the net.






26. When do you use an absolute link?






27. Creates a new result table by combining column values of two tables (A and B) based upon the join-predicate






28. Define "web safe colors".






29. What is included within the <head> tag?






30. What is the hierarchy for CSS code?






31. A way of matching strings of text given a defined set of parameters.






32. Define dithering

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33. Which heading tag has the smallest size?






34. What is included within the <head> tag?






35. When is best to use the <ul> tag?

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36. When should you use a <span> tag?






37. A ____ is a Document Type Definition - also know as DOCTYPE. In a document served as text/html the DOCTYPE informs the browswer how to interpret the content of the page.






38. (Extensible Markup Language) A set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form - used to send data from one application to another.






39. What is the purpose of the "div" tag?






40. What is the purpose of the <!doctype> tag?






41. What separates the padding and the margin area in CSS?






42. Write the line of code to insert an image.






43. What is the code to change the background in a CSS page using a hexadecimal number?






44. What symbol is used in a CSS document to denote code that is considered a class?






45. While using CSS what type of css file can modify multiple things at once to an entire site?






46. What is the code to change the background in a CSS page using a hexadecimal number?






47. When is best to use the <dl> tag?






48. Define a .gif image.






49. To extract data from a web service if it returns JSON use ________ to return an object then iterate through it to get what you want






50. What are the correct naming standards for web pages?