Fluency with Information Technology, 6e (Snyder)
Chapter 4 A Hypertext Markup Language Primer: Marking Up with HTML
4.1 True/False Questions
1) All HTML tags come in pairs.
2) HTML5 is the current standard language for describing web pages.
3) All HTML files must be text format files.
4) A relative path can be just a name if the referenced file is in the same folder as the page that
links to it.
5) The horizontal rule <hr /> tag and the break <br /> tag are examples of singleton tags.
6) All tags between a starting tag and an ending tag should be matched.
7) Tags are words or abbreviations enclosed in angle brackets, < and >.
8) The width of a line of text on a Web page is determined by the size of the text used.
9) By default, the caption tag will center the caption at the top of the table.
10) Quotation marks are not allowed inside of a tag.
11) Hyperlinks to pages on another Web site must contain an absolute URL, while onsite links
may contain a relative URL.
12) Image files must be stored in their own folder.
13) If you change the width of a photo image without changing the height of it, you will end up
with a distorted image.
14) Every Web page is composed of a head and a body.
15) Microsoft Internet Explorer is an example of an open source browser.
16) It is possible to create a list within a list.
17) As you write HTML your file should be open in two applications.
18) Heading tags create Web page headings that are bold and get less “strong” (smaller and
perhaps not so bold) as the level number decreases.
19) A horizontal line is created using the <hr/> tag.
20) Two common image formats used on Web pages are GIF and CSS.
21) All CSS information for a page must go in between the <style>…</style> tag pair in the
header
1) Which of the following lines is properly nested?
A) <p><i><b>Happy New Year!</p></i></b>
B) </p></b></i>Happy New Year!<p><b><i>
C) </p></b></i>>Happy New Year!<i><b><p>
D) <p><i><b>Happy New Year!</b></i></p>
2) The title that appears on the title bar of the browser is specified using:
A) title tags
B) pagename tags
C) html tags
D) body tags
3) Which of the following tags is not required on a Web page?
A) </html>
B) <body>
C) <head>
D) </hr>
4) The preferred way to specify a break that continues the text on the next line in a Web page is:
A) by pressing the ‘enter’ key
B) <linebreak>
C) <br />
D) <br></br>
5) Software for which the source code is publicly available is called:
A) open source
B) public code
C) free source
D) HTML
6) Which of the following will display the rocket.jpg file on the page if the image is stored in the
same folder as the page?
A) <img “rocket.jpg”/>
B) <img src rocket.jpg/>
C) <img src= “rocket.jpg” />
D) <img src “rocket.jpg”/>
7) When an image is inserted next to text in an HTML document, keep in mind that generally:
A) text cannot be placed on the same line as the image
B) images are inserted in the text where specified by the HTML and the text is aligned with the
bottom of the image
C) images are in the text where specified by the HTML and the text is aligned with the right of
the image
D) the size of the text is automatically adjusted to fill the area beside the image
8) CSS considers every HTML5 element to be enclosed in a:
A) page
B) body
C) box
D) folder
9) The tags used to specify table headings/column headings are:
A) <hd> and </hd>
B) <ch> and </ch>
C) <cd> and </cd>
D) <th> and </th>
10) Which of the following would be used to display an ampersand on a Web page?
A) &&
B) \&
C) &amp;
D) <&>
11) A letter with an accent mark, for example, ñ, is displayed using the:
A) accent symbol
B) escape symbol
C) special symbol
D) mark symbol
12) To create a Web page with a list of HTML commands and their tags, it would be best to use:
A) an ordered list
B) an unnumbered list
C) a definitional list
D) a table
13) The HTML tag for bold text is:
A) <bb></bb>
B) <bld></bld>
C) <b></b>
D) <i></i>
14) A family of styling specifications with a common name is called a:
A) tree
B) HTML document
C) text document
D) class
15) Computer experts call spaces, tabs and blanks that have been inserted for readability:
A) alignment
B) white space
C) embedded space
D) tags
16) The boxes in the box model, from inside out, are: content, _______, border and margin.
A) extra
B) stuffing
C) padding
D) expansion
17) In the style specification td.important { color: red }, the important is
A) an attribute
B) a class
C) an extension
D) a color
18) If the color of a paragraph is specified as green in the external style sheet, red in the header’s
style section, and blue in the style attribute of the paragraph tag itself, the paragraph will be
A) blue
B) red
C) green
D) black
1) A grid of cells on a Web page is called a(n) ________.
2) To be accessed from other computers on the Internet, the HTML files, the image files, and the
directory structure created for them must be ________ (transmitted) to a Web server.
3) A user clicks on a(n) ________ to navigate from one Web page to another.
4) A(n) ________ is the name for a Web address of a page a user will go to when they click on a
hyperlink.
5) The highlighted text indicating the presence of a hyperlink is called the ________.
6) ________ is a system for globally styling Web pages written in HTML.
7) ________ give the complete URLs in a hyperlink reference.
8) A(n) ________ is a family of styling specifications in CSS given a common name.
9) In HTML, text that is enclosed between <pre> and </pre> tags is ________.
10) ________ are stylistic characteristics of a Web page that can be set using the style attribute or
tag.
11) In HTML the word inside of angle brackets of an element’s tag, e.g., body from <body>, is
a(n) ________.
12) If the anchor tag’s hover state is styled, its style command must come after the ________.
13) The opposite of a backslash is a(n) ________.
14) Styles that depend on changeable state are assigned using ________.