Glossary - HTML QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to HTML - page 89

Glossary
Accessibility - the ability of people with disabilities to use a website, including the visually
impaired, hearing impaired, colorblind users, or those with other disabilities.
Anchor - the text a link uses to refer to our site.
Browser - the program that enables a user to view our web site.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - rules that define a website's look and feel.
Comment - a bit of information contained in the HTML code which the browser ignores.
Conditional comment - a special type of comment visible only to Internet Explorer
browsers.
Deprecated - code that is no longer included in the language specifications.
Doctype - a declaration that specifies which version of HTML is used in a web page.
Element - the central building block of any HTML document.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) - a markup language used for writing custom
markup languages.
HTML5 Shiv - a fully compatible JavaScript code that recreates all of the new HTML5 ele-
ments for compatibility with older browsers.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - the primary language used for writing web
pages.
Hypertext - any computer text that includes hyperlinks.
Metadata - the data contained in the head of the web page that offers additional information
about that web page.
Non-breaking space - a white-space character that isn't condensed by HTML.
Script - a portion of code, most often written in JavaScript, that makes the page more dy-
namic and interactive.
Semantic markup - markup that offers context to what the content contains.
Tag - a set of markup characters used around an element to indicate where it begins and
where it ends.