Which HTML tag is used to create an ordered list?
- A.The ul tag
- B.The ol tag
- C.The li tag
- D.The dl tag
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the ol tag. An ordered list numbers its items automatically, and its type attribute, or the CSS list-style-type property, decides whether the markers are decimal numbers, lower or upper case letters, or lower or upper case Roman numerals. A is wrong because the ul tag creates an unordered list, whose items carry bullets such as a disc, a circle or a square and have no implied sequence. C is wrong because the li tag marks a single list item and must sit inside either an ordered or an unordered list; by itself it creates no list. D is wrong because the dl tag creates a definition or description list, in which each term, marked with dt, is paired with its description, marked with dd. The three list types and their tags are a standard matching question.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich CSS property allows you to set multiple list properties at once?
- A.list-style-type
- B.list-style
- C.list-style-position
- D.list-style-image
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The correct answer is B, list-style. It is a shorthand property, which means it sets several related properties in a single declaration: the type of the marker, its position and an image to use as the marker, in any order and with the omitted ones falling back to their default values. CSS has several such shorthand properties, among them font, background, margin, padding and border. A is wrong because list-style-type sets only the kind of marker, such as a disc, a circle, a square, decimal numbers or Roman numerals. C is wrong because list-style-position sets only whether the marker sits inside or outside the content box of the list item. D is wrong because list-style-image sets only a picture to be used in place of the standard marker. Each of those three is a single longhand property, and the shorthand list-style is the one that carries all three.
Which HTML element contains all the content that is visible to the visitor on a web page?
- A.The head element
- B.The title element
- C.The body element
- D.The meta element
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The correct answer is C, the body element. An HTML document has two parts inside the html element, and the body is the one that holds everything the visitor actually sees: headings, paragraphs, images, tables, lists, links and forms. It is a container tag, with an opening and a closing tag, and it encloses the whole visible document. A is wrong because the head element holds information about the page rather than content shown on it, such as the character encoding, the description used by search engines and the links to style sheets and scripts. B is wrong because the title element sits inside the head and supplies the text that appears on the browser tab and in search results, not content in the page itself. D is wrong because meta is an empty tag placed in the head to carry metadata such as the encoding, the viewport setting and the page description.
The basic elements of a form are called
- A.objects
- B.table
- C.record
- D.controls
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The correct answer is D, controls. A form is the part of a page that collects information from the visitor, and the individual items placed in it to receive that information are called controls, or form controls: the text box, password box, radio button, check box, drop-down list, text area, submit button and reset button. Most are produced by the input tag with a different value of its type attribute, and each normally carries a name attribute so that the server can tell the values apart. A is wrong because object is a general programming term and also the name of a separate HTML element used to embed external resources. B is wrong because a table arranges data in rows and columns and has nothing to do with collecting input, although tables were once misused to lay forms out. C is wrong because a record is a database term, meaning one complete row of related fields.
HTML stands for
- A.HyperText Markup Language
- B.HighText Machine Language
- C.HyperTransfer Markup Language
- D.Hyperlink Text Making Language
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The correct answer is A, HyperText Markup Language. Hypertext means text that carries links to other text, so that a reader can jump from one document to another instead of reading in a fixed order, and markup means the system of tags that labels each part of the content for the browser. B is wrong because no language called HighText Machine Language exists; machine language is the binary instruction set of a processor and is unrelated. C is wrong because transfer belongs to HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, which is the rule set used to carry pages across the network, not the language they are written in; candidates frequently confuse the two expansions, so keep them apart. D is wrong because the third word is Markup, not Making. The language was created by Tim Berners-Lee around 1991 and its standards are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium.
Who is credited with developing HTML and the World Wide Web?
- A.Charles Babbage
- B.Tim Berners-Lee
- C.Dennis Ritchie
- D.Vint Cerf
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The correct answer is B, Tim Berners-Lee. Working at CERN, the European nuclear research organisation, he proposed a hypertext system in 1989 and by 1991 had written HTML, the first web browser and the first web server, and he went on to found the World Wide Web Consortium, which maintains the standards. A is wrong because Charles Babbage designed the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine in the nineteenth century and is called the father of the computer. C is wrong because Dennis Ritchie created the C programming language and, with Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system. D is wrong because Vint Cerf, with Robert Kahn, designed the TCP and IP protocols and is called a father of the internet, which is a different achievement: the internet is the network of networks, while the web is one service running on it.