Web Development glossary: Novice level
20 Web Development terms at the Novice level, each with a short definition and a link to its full page.
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- Absolute Path
- An absolute path is the entire path of a resource.
- API
- A set of rules that lets one program ask another for data or actions.
- Browser default styles
- Styles the browser adds before yours, like blue links and heading sizes.
- Client and Server
- The client asks; the server answers.
- Color
- The color property sets text color; colors can be names, hex or rgb().
- External stylesheet
- A separate .css file that pages load with a <link> tag.
- Fragment identifier
- The portion of a URL that appears after the # symbol.
- HTTP
- The request-and-response language of the web.
- HTTPS
- HTTP over an encrypted connection.
- Inline style
- CSS written on one element with the style attribute.
- Internal stylesheet
- CSS inside a <style> tag that styles only that page.
- JSON
- The text format most APIs use for data.
- Kebab Case
- All letters are lower case. Each word is separated by an dash.
- Link element
- This loads an external stylesheet.
- Pixel
- px: a fixed unit of size on screen.
- Relative Path
- A relative path is where the path of a resource is defined in relation to the current…
- Request
- What the client sends: method, URL, headers and an optional body.
- Response
- What the server sends back: a status code, headers and usually a body.
- URL
- The full address of a resource on the web.
- Web API
- An API you call over HTTP, usually getting JSON back.