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Markup and Web Languages

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Test your understanding of HTML tags, XML structures, and web page creation technologies. The questions cover elements like CSS styling, parsing documents, and defining web attributes. This section is essential for candidates appearing for computer proficiency tests in various competitive exams.

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Markup and Web Languages Questions

Multiple choice

The tag used to display text above normal text is

  1. sub

  2. sup

  3. u

  4. above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The sup tag creates superscript text, which displays characters above the normal baseline of surrounding text, commonly used for exponents, footnotes, or ordinal indicators like 1st, 2nd. The sub tag creates subscript (below normal text), u underlines, and above is not a valid HTML tag.

Multiple choice

By which tag is list index denoted?

  1. li

  2. ol

  3. dl

  4. ul
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The li (list item) tag denotes individual items within both ordered (ol) and unordered (ul) lists. The ol tag defines the ordered list container itself, dl is for definition lists, and ul defines unordered list containers.

Multiple choice

HTML file has extension _______.

  1. txt

  2. ppt

  3. html

  4. xls
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

HTML files use the .html (or .htm) file extension to identify them as web documents. txt is plain text, ppt is PowerPoint, and xls is Excel - none of these are HTML markup files.

Multiple choice

Tag used for underlining is

  1. <underline>

  3. <line>

  4. <under>
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The u (underline) tag is used to underline text in HTML. There is no underline, under, or line tag in HTML - u is the correct element for underlining text content.

Multiple choice

The tag used for the largest size of heading is

  1. <h1>

  2. <h6>

  3. <head>

  4. <heading>
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

In HTML, heading tags range from h1 to h6 where h1 displays the largest text and h6 the smallest. The h1 tag is used for the main heading of a page.

Multiple choice

The attribute(s) of font tag is/are

  1. size

  2. face

  3. colour

  4. all of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The font tag in HTML supports multiple attributes: size (1-7), face (font family), and color. All three are commonly used together to style text, though the font tag itself is now deprecated in favor of CSS.

Multiple choice

The tag used for linking is

  1. <a>

  2. <link>

  3. <l>

  4. <linking>
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The a (anchor) tag is used for creating links in HTML. It uses the href attribute to specify the destination URL and can link to external pages, internal sections, files, or email addresses.

Multiple choice

What does EST stan for?

  1. Expressed Sequence Tags

  2. Extreme Sequence Tags

  3. Extended Sequence Tags

  4. Excluded Sequence Tags

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

EST stands for Expressed Sequence Tags - short sub-sequences of cDNA sequences that are used to identify gene transcripts. They are derived from mRNA and represent expressed portions of genes, making them valuable for gene discovery and expression analysis.