QUIZ – HTML Basics

HTML is not a programming language. It is, however, a computer language. HTML lacks the basic elements of a programming language such as loops, conditional statements etc. The next question will make things even more clear.

The main purpose of HTML is to structure web page content, especially web page text. Thus, one should use it ONLY to specify what should be a heading, a paragraph, a list etc. This is the right way to make web pages. HTML should not be used for “designing” web pages or directly dictate the position and color of elements. That job is left to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
If you got this one right, congratulations. You will always create “correct” web pages!

An HTML document can contain CSS and JavaScript code. However, it cannot contain an image. Yes, images are part of a web page (what you see in a browser window), they are separate entities that are embedded in the web page and NOT part of the HTML document.

All browsers have HTML support. In fact, the main purpose of a web browser, whether it’s for a desktop computer, a mobile phone or a tablet, is to display web pages. Different web browsers support HTML in their own idiosyncratic way, however. For instance, old browser do not recognise new tags and the latest browsers may not render deprecated HTML tags correctly.
Now, there are some browsers on older mobile phones and PDAs that do not support HTML. I know I’m going back on my words, but these browsers, and the devices they run on, are gradually fading away. These old timers support WML (Wireless Markup Language) documents.

No! A web page needs to be in HTML to be displayed in a browser. I’m sure you would have come across web pages that have .php or .asp extensions instead of .html (or .htm). Even so, the server-side languages need to print ONLY HTML which can then be displayed by the browser. Open any web page and view the source code, it would always be HTML with a little Javascript and CSS.

Each HTML document has a “head” and and a “body“. The <title> is part of the head section.

Web browsers will let you get away even if you don’t close the <img> tag. It had no closing tag originally. That was because the image tag is used to include an image object and that’s it. However, this would result in HTML validation error. The two ways you can close an image tag are – <img src=”…” alt=”…” /> and </img>. In the first option, one inserts the forward slash at the end of the <img> tag.

The image (<img> tag) is an inline element.

OK. So that was a tricky one. If you got it wrong and answered <ul>, don’t fret much. The <ul> is used to create an unordered list. Right! But the list element tag is <li>