Cs50 under standing technology
exam 5
-1Even though HTML is, per its own acronym, a language, why would it be incorrect
to call HTML a programming language?
Answer : HTML is used for structural purposes on a web page, not functional ones.
Programming languages have functional purposes. HTML, as a markup language, doesn't really “do”
anything in the sense that a programming language does
2- In your own words, what is the action attribute of an HTML form used for?
Answer : Send form data to a specific file (the
file that is located in quotes)
3 - What is a CSS selector?
Answer : It is the one that tells the browser
which of the HTML elements to apply the
properties in parentheses on
4- Among the HTTP status codes below, which is commonly used to instruct a
browser to check its cache for the requested resource?
exam 5
-1Even though HTML is, per its own acronym, a language, why would it be incorrect
to call HTML a programming language?
Answer : HTML is used for structural purposes on a web page, not functional ones.
Programming languages have functional purposes. HTML, as a markup language, doesn't really “do”
anything in the sense that a programming language does
2- In your own words, what is the action attribute of an HTML form used for?
Answer : Send form data to a specific file (the
file that is located in quotes)
3 - What is a CSS selector?
Answer : It is the one that tells the browser
which of the HTML elements to apply the
properties in parentheses on
4- Among the HTTP status codes below, which is commonly used to instruct a
browser to check its cache for the requested resource?
