COP 1830 Study Guide 1

Quiz 1 will consist of Multiple Choice and True/False (Yes/No) questions covering Chapters A-D in our virtual textbook. Students are advised to review those chapters and to browse the related links on the course home page. Although you do not need to memorize all XHTML tags, you are also advised to review the [HTML/XHTML Tag Index] from [W3SCHOOLS.COM] and other online references to be familiar with at least the elements that we used in Projects 1 and 2.

The notes and questions below define the bare minimum that a student should know to be prepared for the quiz.

1. The major differences between HTML and XHTML.
2. The meaning of the words: HTML, XHTML, CSS, anchor, hyperlink, deprecate, source code, and URL.
3. What is means to validate source code.
4. The proper way to nest one element inside another element.
5. How pictures are referenced within source code and the most common attributes specified for images.
6. How to specify color using an RGB number.
7. How to specify the width of an element, such as a table.
8. What CSS is and why it is important.
9. The difference between a "tag" and and "attribute" of a tag.
10. The difference between a "block-level" element and an "inline-level" element.
11. The rules of syntax in XHTML regarding the use of case and single or double quotes.
12. What happens if you place excess spaces, tabs, or carriage returns inside source code.
13. How to code an "empty element".
14. How to get rendered content to match the spacing and alignment of source code content.
15. What is a character entity reference?
16. The difference between and purpose of the head and body sections of source code.
17. How to place programmer comments within source code.
18. What meta tags are used for.
19. What an anchor tag is and how to define one.
20. What a "named anchor" is and how to mark one and how to link to one.
21. The difference between "absolute" and "relative" addressing and how to specify the addresses of target files in child or parent folders on remote servers.
22. How to define a table.
23. How to define the following table attributes: border, cellspacing, cellpadding, width.
24. How to define the following table elements: row, cell, heading cell.
25. Which tag determines what appears at the top of a browser window and in the Favorites menu if the page is bookmarked.
26. Which tags are preferred for italicizing text and boldfacing it. (Logical vs. physical tags)
27. Which tags indicate the start of a numbered lists and unordered lists and which tag marks items within a list.
28. The difference between the heading level tags h1 - h6.
29. How to compose an anchor tag to an email address.
30. Which tag draws a line (horizontal rule) across your web page.
31. Which tag is used for starting a new line of text, as distinguished from a new paragraph.
32. Be familiar with the basic considerations related to form design in XHTML.
33. Know the basic XHTML syntax for creating forms within a web page.
34. Describe the various input controls used within forms and the tags used to define them.
35. Be familiar with the methods of submitting and resetting forms, especially the use of the action and method attributes.
36. Know the meaning of the get and post "methods" of form submission.