How does the meta charset attribute affect the HTML document?
- It determines how content is cached.
- It sets the content's MIME type.
- It sets the document's primary language.
- It specifies the character encoding for the webpage.
The meta charset attribute specifies the character encoding for the web page, ensuring that all characters and symbols in the content are displayed correctly. Different character encodings are suited for different alphabets and scripts. For example, UTF-8 can represent any character in the Unicode standard and is widely used in various languages and web pages.
You're tasked with creating a login form that should securely transmit user credentials. What attributes and input types would you use to ensure secure transmission?
- Using type="hidden" for both username and password.
- Using type="text" for both username and password fields.
- Using type="text" for username and type="password" for the password with a standard form submission.
- Using type="text" for username and type="password" for the password, combined with HTTPS for form submission.
The type="password" attribute ensures that the password is obscured on the screen. However, secure transmission also requires HTTPS, which encrypts the data sent from the browser to the server, ensuring that the credentials aren't readable if intercepted. Simply using the type="password" is not enough as it only hides the password from onlookers but doesn't encrypt the data in transit.