Web Design Glossary

A glossary of jargon terms used in the HTML and XML industry. These words are used regularly throughout Web development documentation and books.

A

• accessibility
• agent
• AJAX
• applet
• attribute
• aural
• azimuth

B

• bad neighborhood
• below the fold
• block-level elements
• blog
• boolean
• breadcrumb
• brightness
• browser

C

• candidate recommendation
• cascade
• Cascading Style Sheets
• case-sensitive
• CDATA
• CDF
• CGI
• child
• CMS
• comment
• comment - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• comment - XML
• container element
• content
• CSS

D

• declaration
• deprecated
• DHTML
• dither
• DNS
• doctype
• DOM
• domain
• DPI
• DTD

E

• element
• em
• embedded style
• entry page
• ex
• exit page
• Extensible Markup Language
• external style sheet

F

• fantasy
• favicon
• favorites icon
• fixed width layout
• fold
• font
• font category
• font family
• font style
• font weight

G

• GIF

H

• hexadecimal
• .htaccess
• HTML
• HTTP
• HTTPS
• hue
• hyperlink
• hypertext

I

• image map
• inheritance
• inline elements
• inline style
• IP

J

• JPEG
• JPG

K

• kerning

L

• LAMP
• leading
• link farm
• liquid layout

M

• MAMP
• markup
• marquee
• master family
• meta data
• meta tag
• monospace

N

• natural search
• nesting
• non-breaking space
• normal flow

O

• organic search

P

• parent
• permalink
• pica
• pixel
• pixel (typography)
• PNG
• point
• property
• pseudo-element
• proposed recommendation
• pseudo-class

R

• recommendation
• replaced element
• resolution
• rule

S

• sans-serif
• saturation
• schema
• script
• selector
• semantic markup
• seo
• serif
• SGML
• shortcut menu
• singleton
• SOAP
• specification
• specificity
• Standard Generalized Markup Language
• style

T

• tag
• text editor
• tracking
• typeface

U

• universal selector
• URI
• URL
• URN
• user agent

V

• valid

W

• W3C
• WAMP
• Web log
• Web page
• Web server
• well-formed
• whitespace
• wiki
• working draft
• WYSIWYG
• WYSIWYG editor

X

• XHTML
• XML