Terms to know

HTML

HTML Stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is a text based approach to describing content contained within an HTML file is structured.

BOM

The BOM stands for the Browser Object Model. The Window object is an example of the BOM.

DOM

The DOM stands for the Documet Object Model. It consists as a tree of objects starting from the root document and then down to the head and body tags.

HTTP

HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. This is all about communication between web clients and servers. HTTP Requests are performed to start communications between the two entities.

GET

GET is a HTTP method which is used to request data from a specified resource.

POST

POST is a HTTP method which is used to send data to a server to create / update a resource.

Element

An HTML Element is an individual component of an HTML web page.

Tag

A tag is what is used to declare an element in HTML, usually most elements have opening and closing tags

Attribute

Attributes define additional characteristics or properties of the element such as width and height of a box.

Value

Value is an attribute in HTML, but it is also what you assign the attribute as, for example the id attribute is assigned the value "bar".

Terms to Know | HTML