Glossary of Web Development Terms
- Total Width
- The combination of the value of the width property, widths of left and right padding, and the left and right borders. For more information read up on the Box Models.
- Layers
- Common term for absolute positioning. It's also the name of a Netscape 4 proprietary element.
- Declaration
- A property and value pair in a CSS rule. (The term means something else in markup languages, e.g. HTML, XHTML, and XML.)
- Inline (CSS or JavaScript)
- Using the X/HTML
style
or event, e.g.onclick
, attributes on element(s). It's better to use embedded, or even better, external stylesheets and scripts. - Embedded (CSS or JavaScript)
- Including CSS in a
<style>
element or JavaScript in a<script>
element. - ECMA Script
- The standard for several languages which include JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript.
Abbreviations of Commonly Used Terms
Abbreviations | Full Name |
---|---|
HTML | Hyper-Text Markup Language |
XHTML | eXtensible Hyper-Text Markup Language |
XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
X/HTML or (X)HTML or [X]HTML | HTML and/or XHTML |
X(HT)ML | XML and/or XHTML |
CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
JS | JavaScript |
PHP | recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor |
ASP | Active Server Pages |
JSP | JavaServer Pages |
LAMP | Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (sometimes Perl or Python) |
SERP | Search Engine Results Page |
SEO | Search Engine Optimization |
Last update: 2008-02-12