# HTML flash cards: Novice level

62 HTML terms at the Novice level, as flash cards.

Updated: October 16, 2026

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## Terms in this deck

- [<b>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/b): The element that draws attention to text without adding importance or emphasis.
- [<body>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/body): The element that contains the document content presented as the web page.
- [<br>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/br): The element that creates a line break where the break is part of the content.
- [<div>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/div): A generic container for flow content when no more meaningful element fits.
- [<em>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/em): The element that marks stress emphasis that can change a sentence's meaning.
- [<figcaption>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/figcaption): The element that provides a caption for its parent figure.
- [<figure>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/figure): The element that groups self-contained content that may have a caption.
- [<head>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/head-html): The element that contains document metadata rather than the page's main visible content.
- [<hr>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/hr): The element that represents a thematic break between groups of content.
- [<html>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/html): The root element that contains the head and body of an HTML document.
- [<i>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/i): The element that marks text in an alternate voice or otherwise offset from normal prose.
- [<p>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/p): The element that represents a paragraph.
- [<span>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/span): A generic inline container for phrasing content when no more meaningful element fits.
- [<strong>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/strong): The element that marks content as strongly important, serious, or urgent.
- [<title>](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/title): The element that gives a document the title shown in browser tabs and other interfaces.
- [Alternative text](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/alternative-text): Text that communicates an image's purpose when the image cannot or should not be viewed.
- [Anchor element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/anchor-element): The a element, which creates a hyperlink when it has an href attribute.
- [Attribute](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/attribute-html): A name, sometimes paired with a value, that adds information or behavior to an element.
- [Attribute value](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/attribute-value): The data assigned to an HTML attribute.
- [Boolean attribute](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/boolean-attribute): An attribute whose presence means true and whose absence means false.
- [Character reference](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/character-reference): HTML syntax that represents a character using a named or numeric reference.
- [Child element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/child-element): An element directly contained by another element.
- [class attribute](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/class-attribute-html): An attribute that contains one or more CSS classes.
- [Description details](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/description-details): A description, definition, or value associated with a term in a description list.
- [Description list](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/description-list): A list of terms or names paired with descriptions, definitions, or values.
- [Description term](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/description-term): A term or name being described inside a description list.
- [Document type declaration](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/document-type-declaration): The declaration at the start of a document that tells browsers to use modern HTML parsing.
- [Element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/element): A part of an HTML document represented by a tag and, when allowed, its content.
- [Element content](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/element-content): The text and elements placed between an element's start and end tags.
- [End tag](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/end-tag): The tag that closes an HTML element, written with a slash before the tag name.
- [Fragment identifier](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/fragment-identifier): The portion of a URL that appears after the # symbol.
- [Global attribute](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/global-attribute): An attribute that can be used on every HTML element, subject to the attribute's rules.
- [Heading](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/heading): A title that introduces a page or section of content.
- [Heading element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/heading-element): One of the h1 through h6 elements used to identify headings at different levels.
- [height attribute](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/height-attribute): An attribute that supplies an element's intended height in CSS pixels.
- [href](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/href): The attribute that supplies a hyperlink's destination URL.
- [HTML](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/html-html): The markup language used to give web content its structure and meaning.
- [HTML comment](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/html-comment): Text in HTML source that browsers do not display as page content.
- [HTML document](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/html-document): A text document containing HTML markup that a browser can parse into a web page.
- [HTML source](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/html-source): The original HTML text sent to or opened by a browser.
- [HTML validation](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/html-validation): Checking markup against HTML's conformance rules to find mistakes.
- [Hyperlink](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/hyperlink): A connection that a user can follow to another resource or location.
- [ID](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/id): A document-wide identifier assigned to a single element.
- [Image element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/image-element): The img element, which embeds an image in a document.
- [Link element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/link-element): This loads an external stylesheet.
- [List item](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/list-item): One entry inside an ordered, unordered, or menu list.
- [Markup language](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/markup-language): A language that adds labels to describe the content so that software can understand its structure and meaning.
- [Named character reference](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/named-character-reference): A character reference that uses a standard name, such as amp for an ampersand.
- [Nesting](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/nesting): Placing one HTML element inside another element.
- [Numeric character reference](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/numeric-character-reference): A character reference that identifies a Unicode character by number.
- [Ordered list](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/ordered-list): A list whose item order is meaningful.
- [Parent element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/parent-element): An element that directly contains another element.
- [Sibling element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/sibling-element): An element that shares the same parent as another element.
- [src](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/src): The attribute that gives the URL of an embedded resource such as an image or script.
- [Start tag](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/start-tag): The tag that opens an HTML element and can contain its attributes.
- [Style element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/style-element): Embeds CSS directly in an HTML page.
- [Tag](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/tag-html): Markup enclosed in angle brackets that begins or ends an HTML element.
- [title attribute](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/title-attribute): A global attribute that provides advisory information about an element.
- [Unordered list](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/unordered-list): A list whose item order does not change the meaning.
- [Void element](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/void-element): An HTML element that cannot contain child content and has no end tag.
- [Whitespace](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/whitespace-software-development): Spaces, tabs, and line breaks used to separate text or make source easier to read.
- [width attribute](https://www.ask-codey.com/glossary/width-attribute): An attribute that supplies an element's intended width in CSS pixels.

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