HDD

Hard Disk Drive , The mechanism that controls the positioning, reading, and writing of the hard disk, which furnishes the largest amount of data storage for the PC.Although the hard disk drive...

 HTML

HyperText Markup Language , The coding language used to create Hypertext documents for use on the World Wide Web. HTML looks a lot like old-fashioned typesetting code, where you surround a block of...

 HTML character encoding

A table that associates a numeric index with each character in a character set. The table is used when you create a Web page for use in a specific language.

 HTML tag

A symbol used in HTML to identify a page element's type, format, and structure.

 HTTP

HyperText Transport Protocol , The protocol for moving hypertext files across the Internet.Requires a HTTP client program on one end, and an HTTP server program on the other end. HTTP is the most...

 Heading

A paragraph type that is displayed in a large, bold typeface.The size of a heading is related to its level: Heading 1 is the largest, Heading 2, the next largest, and so on.Use headings to name...

 Hiddenfield

A form field that is invisible to the user but that supplies data to the form handler. Each hidden field is implemented as a name-value pair.When the form is submitted by the user, its hidden...

 Home Directory

The directory assigned to a system user at login; the directory a user starts out in.

 Homepage

Originally, the web page that your browser is set to use when it starts up. The more common meaning refers to The starting page on a Web site. It is the page that is retrieved and displayed by...

 Horizontal line

A horizontal graphic element on a World Wide Web page often used to separate sections of the page.

 Host

Any computer on a network that is a repository for services available to other computers on the network.It is quite common to have one host machine provide several services, such as WWW and USENET.

 Hosting

This term can be used to refer to the housing of a web site, email or a domain.For example, a company like XtraOrbit hosts web servers. This means that we provide the hardware, software, and...

 Hosting Provider

An institution that provides Web space to companies or individuals , For example, a company like XtraOrbit hosts web servers. This means that we provide the hardware, software, and communications...

 Hotspot

A graphically defined area in an image that contains a hyperlink. An image with hotspots is called an image map.In browsers, hotspots are invisible. Users can tell that a hotspot is present by the...

 Hyperlink

A jump from text or from an image map to a page or other type of file on the World Wide Web.In World Wide Web pages, hyperlinks are the primary way to navigate between pages and among Websites.

 Hypertext

Originally, any textual information on a computer containing jumps to other information. The hypertext jumps are called hyperlinks.In World Wide Web pages, hypertext is the primary way to navigate...

 hit

As used in reference to the World Wide Web, 'hit' means a single request from a web browser for a single item from a web server.Thus in order for a web browser to display a page that contains 3...