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Web Development

Subject : it-skills
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1. When is best to use the <dl> tag?






2. Why is "alt" used?






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






4. When do you use an absolute link?






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






6. What is the purpose of the <meta> tag?






7. Which tag has the largest size?






8. In CSS the five possible values for "position" are:static - _____ - absolute - fixed - inherit






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






10. Which heading tag has the smallest size?






11. Define dithering

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12. This stops processing the page if they cannot retrieve the resource.






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






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






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






16. Use the following lowest screen resolution when designing a site for a target audience?






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






18. How do you remove a border from an image (using css)?






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






20. What is the purpose of the <p> tag?






21. Define "web safe colors".






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






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






24. How do you remove a border from an image (using css)?






25. What is the purpose of the <title> tag?






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






27. Data gets transferred via the URL - used for safe actions






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. Define "web safe colors".






34. Define dithering

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35. Which heading tag has the smallest size?






36. Web apps can interact with server without changing anything on the page - uses the XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data asynchronously with the web server.






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






38. What is a box model?






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






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






41. Pushes an element far left - allows other elements to wrap around it.






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






43. Use the following lowest screen resolution when designing a site for a target audience?






44. Define a .gif image.






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






46. 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.






47. Where should you place a navigation bar?






48. When is FTP used?






49. A CSS document is saved with the _____ extension?






50. When using CSS what separates a property and value?