New Perspectives on HTML CSS and XML Comprehensive 4th Edition by Patrick Carey

,Tutorial 1: Getting Started with HTML5


TRUE/FALSE

1. A network that covers a wider area, such as several buildings or cities, is called a wide area network or
WAN.

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2. Each document on the World Wide Web is referred to as a Web page and is stored on a file server.

ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: HTML 5

3. Web pages are text files written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

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4. XML is a compact offshoot of SGML and is used to define new markup languages, known as XML
vocabularies.

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5. Each browser has its own external style sheet that specifies the appearance of different HTML
elements.

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6. An HTML document is composed of tags that represent distinct items in the Web page, such as a
paragraph, the page heading, or even the entire body of the page itself.

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7. Elements support attributes that specify the use, the behavior, and in some cases the appearance of an
element.

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8. Since an HTML file is a text file, it is composed of text characters and blank space.

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9. The rules that govern how code should be entered are called syntax.

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10. The body element is where you provide browsers with information about the document.

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11. You can quickly change an XMTML document into an HTML document just by altering the first three
line of code.

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12. Heading elements contain the text of main headings on a Web page.

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13. Ordered lists are used for items that follow some defined sequential order.

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14. The top level of a nested list contains minor items, with each sublevel containing items of greater
importance.

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15. Style sheets are written in the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language.

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16. The figure above shows an ordered list.

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17. The most often-used program language for the Web is JavaScript.

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, 18. A text-level element does not start out on a new line but flows below the rest of the characters in
grouping element.

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19. The exact appearance of the hr element is left to the browser.

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20. Inline images are considered text-level elements and thus must be placed within a grouping element
such as a body or a paragraph.

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MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE

1. In order for computers to share resources efficiently, they can be linked together in a structure called a
network. _________________________

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2. Hypertext organizes data through a series of sites or hyperlinks users can activate to jump from one
piece of information to another. ______________________

ANS: F, links

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3. A markup language is a language that describes the content and structure of a document by identifying
different elements in the document._________________________

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4. Each element of a document is marked within the HTML file by one or more links.
_________________________

ANS: F, tags

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5. Empty space includes blank spaces, tabs, and line breaks found within the file.
_________________________

ANS: F, White space

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6. A multi-sided tag contains an opening tag that tells the browser to turn a feature on and apply it to the
content that follows, and a closing tag that turns off the feature. _________________________

ANS: F, two-sided