Anchors are important HTML Tags regarding Hypertext Links of any kind.
Anchors and Hypertext Links are closely related, an Anchor signaling the source and/or the destination of a Link.
Attribute
An attribute is a kind of Tag modifier. Attributes usually appear to the right of a Tag label.
Attributes relate to Tags in HTML fairly analogously to the way Adjectives relate to Nouns (and many Adverbs relate to Verbs) in human language.
A noun does not lose its meaning nor changes its function when modified by an adjective; that noun just signals a more specific or less general class when modified by an adjective. For example, rose versus yellow rose or red rose. It is possible to say that the Adjective narrows the class, or the range of meaning, that a nouns signals.
The same can be said of an Attribute, in relation to a Tag. Likewise, when there are Attibutes in a Tag, the Browser is assigned a more specific funtion.
For example, <HR> tells the Browser to place a horizontal line right where this Tag appears. When the Tag <HR> is used with an Attribute, for example, the Attribute color, such as in <HR COLOR="#FF0000">, or <HR COLOR="red">, then the Browser will not just place a horizontal line, but will place a red horizontal line on the spot where the Tag and its Attribute appear.
Size, for instance, is a usual Attribute in the Font Tag: <FONT SIZE="1">. Whatever font the Browser is displaying, after this code the Browser obeys the size specified by the Attribute present in the Font Tag--until the Browser finds the closing Tag </FONT>.
Debug is the procedure of freeing a string of code from Bugs (problems that hinder that string of code from operating properly).
When you load your HTML document, and it does not load correctly, you will Debug it (usually search for typos, missing or excessive pieces of codes and make the proper corrections) so your document can load correctly and look the way you intended it to look.
Link is a Tag used in the Head section of a document, signaling the relationship between that current Web Page and other HTML documents.
It is important not to confuse the LinkTag with the widely used terms Link and Linking to. These are employed in reference to Hypertext Links, which allow jumping to other URLs, to specific places in a document, etc..
The Source Code of a document is the "raw" html form in which that document appears when it is open in a plain text editor, instead of a Browser.
The Source Code is, in fact, the collection of codes or instructions that we write together with text for documents that are loaded on a Browser. The Source Code "tells" a Browesr how to go about the images, text, sound files, etc., that the Browser is to load.
The Brower, in turn, interprets the Souce Code it finds, thus giving the text and images in a document the appearance displayed on the Brower screen.
This term is used by programmers well beyond the mere HTML domain. Reference to to these other uses, however, would fall outside the scope of the present Glossary.
Tag
This is how the basic HTML codes or commands are referred to.
HTML Tags appear between the angled brackets: < and >. These angled brackets (< and >) help the Browser know that it has reached a command to be executed, and not a string of text to be displayed.
For example, the Tag <BR> tells the Browser to break a line, whereas the Tags <B> and </B> tell the Browser to start and to stop boldtyping text, respectively.
Now, if by chance you forget to enclose "BR", "B", or "/B" in the angled brackets (< and >), then the Browser "thinks" these are just plain text and displays them all on the screen, instead of getting busy with following the originally intended instructions! So, please do not forget to use the angled brackets (< and >) as you write your HTML codes!
<BR> is an empty or open Tag, whereas Tags such as the pair <B> and </B> are referred to as containers.
Open Tags make the Browser perform a single, one-time command at the particular point, within the document, where each of these Tags are placed. Containers, in turn, make the Browser start performing a command where the first member of the pair is encountered, and the Browser only stops performing that command when the second member of the pair is encountered.
In other words, Containers are found always in pairs, and affect everything in that section of the document that is placed between the two members of the pair. The first member of the pair turns on a command, so to speak, whereas the second member turns that command off. Most members of a container pair look alike, except that the second member will display a "/" (slash) following the initial "<" (angled bracket).
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