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HTML

Posted by sonat ugur
sonat ugur
5,725 Points

about image's parent

"Images set to max-width:100% will fill their parent element" I wonder the meaning of the parent phrase of image.

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

Hi there Sonat.

When we talked about "parents" in HTML this refers to the preceding element in the document tree.

<html>
<body>

<h1>Page Title</h1>

<p>
     <img src ="" />

</p>
</body>

A HTML document is made up of HTML elements which are organised like branches of a tree. Elements are "parents" and "children" of each other because they precede each other or come after each other.

In this example above,

<html> is the root elememt of the document because it is the first element to appear in the document; the element in which all others are contained. <body is a child of html but a parent of <h1> because it is the second element in the tree. <img> is a child of the paragraph element which is a sibling of h1 but a child of body.

Hope this helps :)

sonat ugur
sonat ugur
5,725 Points

This helps so much thanks:)