Html Glossary

Browse 9 html terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

9 Html Terms

ARIA
Accessible Rich Internet Applications — a set of HTML attributes that add semantic meaning to elements for assistive technologies. Roles (role='dialog'),...
DOM
DOM, or Document Object Model, is a programming interface that represents an HTML or XML document as a tree structure of objects, where each node corresponds...
HTMX
A JavaScript library that extends HTML with attributes for making AJAX requests, handling WebSocket connections, and performing CSS transitions directly from...
iframe
An HTML element that embeds another HTML page within the current page — a page within a page. Once the backbone of web layouts (frames), now primarily used for...
Markup
Markup refers to a system of annotations or tags added to text to define its structure, formatting, and semantics, separate from the content itself. The...
Responsive Images
HTML techniques for serving appropriately sized images based on the viewer's screen size, pixel density, and supported formats. Uses srcset (multiple...
Semantic HTML
Using HTML elements for their intended meaning rather than their visual appearance — <nav> for navigation, <article> for articles, <button> for buttons, not...
Tag
A label or marker attached to an entity for identification or categorization — in HTML, an element like <div>; in Git, a named reference to a specific commit...
XHTML
Extensible HyperText Markup Language — a reformulation of HTML as a strict XML application, requiring well-formed syntax (closed tags, quoted attributes,...

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