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  1. Glossary
    1. Abstraction
    2. Accent
    3. Accessibility
    4. Accessibility tree
    5. Accessible description
    6. Accessible name
    7. Adobe Flash
    8. Advance measure
    9. Ajax
    10. Algorithm
    11. Alignment container
    12. Alignment subject
    13. Alpha (alpha channel)
    14. ALPN
    15. API
    16. Apple Safari
    17. Application context
    18. Argument
    19. ARIA
    20. ARPA
    21. ARPANET
    22. Array
    23. ASCII
    24. Aspect ratio
    25. Asynchronous
    26. ATAG
    27. Attribute
    28. Authentication
    29. Authenticator
    30. Bandwidth
    31. Base64
    32. Baseline
      1. Baseline (compatibility)
      2. Baseline (typography)
    33. Beacon
    34. Bézier curve
    35. bfcache
    36. BiDi
    37. BigInt
    38. Binding
    39. Bitwise flags
    40. Blink
    41. blink element (<blink> tag)
    42. Block
      1. Block (CSS)
      2. Block (scripting)
    43. Block cipher mode of operation
    44. Block-level content
    45. Boolean
      1. Boolean (JavaScript)
      2. Boolean attribute (ARIA)
      3. Boolean attribute (HTML)
    46. Bounding Box
    47. Breadcrumb
    48. Brotli compression
    49. Browser
    50. Browsing context
    51. Buffer
    52. Bun
    53. Cache
    54. Cacheable
    55. CalDAV
    56. Call stack
    57. Callback function
    58. Camel case
    59. Canonical order
    60. Canvas
    61. Card sorting
    62. CardDAV
    63. Caret
    64. CDN
    65. Certificate authority
    66. Certified
    67. Challenge-response authentication
    68. Character
    69. Character encoding
    70. Character reference
    71. Character set
    72. Chrome
    73. CIA
    74. Cipher
    75. Cipher suite
    76. Ciphertext
    77. Class
    78. Client-side rendering (CSR)
    79. Closure
    80. Cloud
    81. Cloud computing
    82. CMS
    83. Code point
    84. Code splitting
    85. Code unit
    86. Codec
    87. Color space
    88. Color wheel
    89. Compile
    90. Compile time
    91. Composite operation
    92. Compression Dictionary Transport
    93. Computer Programming
    94. Conditional
    95. Constant
    96. Constructor
    97. Content header
    98. Continuous Media
    99. Control flow
    100. Cookie
    101. Copyleft
    102. CORS
    103. CORS-safelisted request header
    104. CORS-safelisted response header
    105. Crawler
    106. Credential
    107. CRLF
    108. Cross Axis
    109. Cross-site scripting (XSS)
    110. CRUD
    111. Cryptanalysis
    112. Cryptography
    113. CSP
    114. CSRF
    115. CSS
    116. CSS Object Model (CSSOM)
    117. CSS pixel
    118. CSS preprocessor
    119. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
    120. Data structure
    121. Database
    122. Debounce
    123. Decryption
    124. Deep copy
    125. Delta
    126. Denial of Service (DoS)
    127. Deno
    128. Descriptor (CSS)
    129. Deserialization
    130. Developer Tools
    131. Device pixel
    132. Digital certificate
    133. Digital signature
    134. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
    135. DMZ
    136. DNS
    137. Doctype
    138. Document directive
    139. Document environment
    140. DOM (Document Object Model)
    141. Domain
    142. Domain name
    143. Domain sharding
    144. Dominator
    145. DSL
      1. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)
      2. DSL (Domain-Specific Language)
    146. DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)
    147. DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency signaling)
    148. Dynamic typing
    149. ECMA
    150. ECMAScript
    151. Effective connection type
    152. Element
    153. Encapsulation
    154. Encryption
    155. Endianness
    156. Engine
      1. JavaScript engine
      2. Rendering engine
    157. Entity
    158. Entity header
    159. Enumerated
    160. Escape character
    161. eTLD
    162. Event
    163. Exception
    164. EXIF
    165. Expando
    166. Fallback alignment
    167. Falsy
    168. Favicon
    169. Federated identity
    170. Fetch directive
    171. Fetch metadata request header
    172. Fingerprinting
    173. Firefox OS
    174. Firewall
    175. First Contentful Paint (FCP)
    176. First CPU idle
    177. First Input Delay (FID) Deprecated
    178. First Meaningful Paint (FMP)
    179. First Paint (FP)
    180. First-class Function
    181. Flex
    182. Flex Container
    183. Flex Item
    184. Flexbox
    185. Flow relative values
    186. Forbidden request header
    187. Forbidden response header name
    188. Fork
    189. Fragmentainer
    190. Frame rate (FPS)
    191. FTP
    192. FTU
    193. Function
    194. Fuzz testing
    195. Gamut
    196. Garbage collection
    197. Gecko
    198. General header
    199. GIF
    200. Git
    201. Global object
    202. Global scope
    203. Global variable
    204. Glyph
    205. Google Chrome
    206. GPL
    207. GPU
    208. Graceful degradation
    209. Grid
    210. Grid Areas
    211. Grid Axis
    212. Grid Cell
    213. Grid Column
    214. Grid container
    215. Grid Lines
    216. Grid Row
    217. Grid Tracks
    218. Guaranteed-invalid value
    219. Gutters
    220. gzip compression
    221. Hash function
    222. Head
    223. Head-of-line blocking