Hard Return

When you need to break a line of text and start on a new line in a text box.

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Character

A letter, symbol, or another alphabet unit.

Hex Code

A way of expressing colours on digital media. To specify a hex code, you need to consider the three primary colours: red, green and blue. The hex code is always six characters long and looks like this: #RRGGBB and their values range from 00 to FF.

Masthead

The name, logo, and other identifying information at the top of a newspaper or magazine publication.

ID

A selector that can be applied to any HTML element. ID should be used when designing for a single instance, such as using the id="main" attribute on an <h1> tag.

Right-aligned

Text that flows from right to left and is the default reading direction of a page with its content aligned on the right margin.

Infinite Scroll

Generally used when a page has so much content that it would be impossibly long to load the entire page at once. Infinite scroll consists of an auto-generated list of items that constantly loads new items as they load off the bottom of the screen.

Warm Colours

Colours on the same side of the colour wheel as red, such as pink, orange and yellow.

Tracking

The adjustment of all characters in a line by moving them closer together or farther apart.

Full-stack Developer

A software developer who designs, develops, maintains and supports the entire end-to-end product. These developers are capable of developing and implementing modern solutions to any industry problem. They typically work with different technologies such as mobile application development, web application development, back-end software development and front-end software development.

Affordance

Affordances describe a relationship between the environment and an animate object, classified as either positive or negative.

Items, such as a car that leads to movement, have a positive affordance. Things like stairs that lead upwards have a negative affordance because they will not allow for any other form of movement other than up or down if used accordingly.

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