Web Design Glossary - E -


E-Commerce:

Short for electronic commerce. It’s the buying and selling of goods or services online, through websites. Products sold through e-commerce can be physical products that require shipping, or digital products or services delivered electronically.


Elastic Layout:

An elastic layout is a website layout that uses percentages and ems for widths paired with a max-width style to allow the site layout to stretch when font sizes are changed. It’s ability to flex to accommodate the browser width and reader’s font preferences are where it gets its name. Elastic layouts still today have several problems being interpreted by the web browser and a lot of designers will suggest using a fixed layout.


Element:

In XML, an element is the central building block of any document. Individual elements can contain text, other elements, or both.


Embedded Style:

An embedded style is a CSS style placed in the head tag of an XHTML document. It only affects the elements on that page, instead of site-wide as a separate CSS file does. Style in an embedded style sheet will override styles from the linked CSS file.


Extensible Markup Language:

Extensible Markup Language is also known as XML. It is a markup language used for writing custom markup languages. In other words, XML describes how to write new languages (it’s sometimes referred to as a “meta” language because of this). It also serves as a basic syntax that allows different kinds of computers and applications to share information without having to go through multiple conversion layers.


External Style Sheet:

This is a CSS document that is written in a separate, external document. The biggest advantage to using an external style sheet is that it can be linked to by multiple HTML/XHTML files (which means changes made to the style sheet will affect all the pages linked to it without having to change each page individually).

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