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Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a standardized network protocol for transmitting real-time multimedia data like audio and video.

DNS records store important information about domains and hostnames. They function like maps, directing DNS queries to the desired endpoint.

The Designer automatically saves your progress every 10 seconds.

You can sort your Collection items in multiple ways — select the field from the Collection you wish to filter from, then select the ordering option.

Prefetch is a technique that proactively loads and caches resources to improve website performance and user experience.

A field available in CMS Collections. This field lets you display a date and time in a Collection and/or Collection item.

A hit is a request to a web server from a browser for a specific resource.

Cryptanalysis examines cryptographic systems to find weaknesses that could allow attackers to uncover plaintext or break encryption.

A header is a section at the top of a webpage.

The “max-width” CSS property defines an element’s maximum width.

You can transfer sites from one Workspace to another Workspace.

The last time your site was published.

Lets you control how Collection items display inside a Collection list. The default layout option has each item covering the full width of the parent element. You can change this to display Collection items in 2, 3, 4, or 6 columns.

Font weight refers to the thickness or density of a typeface’s strokes.

A tab in the Add panel that houses prebuilt layouts for your Webflow site.

SSL (secure socket layer) is the standard method for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser.

A section in the Style panel that houses CSS properties for changing how an element appears, such as its opacity, outline, and box shadows.

A content management system (CMS) is a tool for creating and managing a website and its content.

A radio button is a form element for selecting one option from a predefined set of mutually exclusive choices.

Left To Right (LTR) describes a text layout that starts from the left and proceeds to the right.

Contextual advertising is a form of paid advertising that matches web content with ad intent.

Bundling, or bundle pricing, is a pricing technique in which retailers sell products together at a lower price than they would be sold at individually.

A shim is a code snippet enabling modern web features to function within older programming or browsing environments.

The amount of times a site visitor submits data using your site's form(s).

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a standardized web address format that allows users to identify and access an online resource.

The UI state changes how Collection lists display when you’re designing. The Items state is the default option, and shows the items that you have within the Collection. The Empty state doesn’t show these items and gives the designer the opportunity to design for a circumstance if/when there is no data to be displayed in the Collection list.

Shared Workspace templates are templates made from your own sites. They can help you create sites with similar layouts and increase your efficiency when designing. Your Workspace members will also have access to your shared Workspace template(s).

Third-party applications that you've given access to your personal and/or website data.

The far right vertical panel in the Designer that houses the Style panel, Element settings panel, Style manager panel, and Interactions panel.

The part of a domain that comes before the root domain (e.g., blog.yourwebsite.com is a subdomain whereas yourwebsite.com is the root domain).

A rich text field is an input tool for formatting or applying text styles, such as bold, colors, font sizes, italics, underline, and other visual modifications.

Available in CMS Collections. You can add videos via a link — not an embed code — from an online video host like Vimeo or YouTube. Just paste in the video link and it’ll appear in the native video format from the 3rd-party video player.

Top margin is a CSS property that defines the space between the top edge of an element and its surroundings, such as other elements, the browser window, or the edge of a container.

A generic element that is typically used to group content, or when no other element is specifically or semantically suitable. Div blocks have no effect on the content or layout until styled with CSS.

In cryptography, a cipher is a digital security algorithm that encrypts and decrypts data.

The <strong> element defines important text with added semantic importance.

Mid-September 2019, new European requirements for authenticating online payments were introduced in Europe as part of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements apply to businesses in the European Economic Area (EEA) that accept online card payments from cardholders whose banks are also located in the EEA.Webflow Ecommerce payments are PSD2 and SCA compliant (i.e., support 3D Secure payments) for European customers.If you’re a merchant in the European Economic Area (EEA), all you need to do to ensure that your Webflow Ecommerce store is PSD2 and SCA compliant for your European customers is to republish your store if it wasn’t published on or after September 11, 2019. Read more about how to make your ecommerce store compliant in our Payment gateway article.

PNG, short for Portable Network Graphics, is a lossless image format known for its transparency support and quality retention after compression.

BigInt, which stands for “big integer,” is a JavaScript data type. JavaScript uses data types to decide how to treat a piece of data.

A Webflow site that is publicly visible in your public profile and in Made in Webflow search results.

Decryption is the process of reverting encrypted data to its original format.

Ciphertext is unreadable, encrypted data that ciphers use for security during data transit.

An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a unique string of characters identifying devices connected to the internet.

Clickjacking is when a malicious actor deceives website visitors into clicking buttons or links hidden in a fake layer to steal sensitive data or install malware.

A Webflow element that embeds an interactive Google Map in your site.

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based approach to delivering software on a subscription basis without requiring local installation.

Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG is a file format that uses lossy compression to maintain manageable file sizes without compromising image quality.

The type of element you're working with, i.e., H1, link, button, etc.

Account notifications update you about activity in your account. New notifications appear on your Webflow Dashboard after you log in.

Help text is a user interface design element that provides additional information or guidance to users to clarify which content should go in a given Collection field.

The total weight of your site's HTML, CSS, JS, and images.

The light-dark() CSS function returns one of two values depending on whether the active color scheme is light or dark, so you can style both modes in a single declaration.

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters identifying an online resource.

Citation rate is the share of AI answers to tracked prompts that cite your site as a source.

In software and web development, deployment is the process of moving code from one environment to another, usually in the form of changes or updates.

What you create in Webflow! You can publish sites to a webflow.io staging subdomain for free, export the code on a paid plan, add hosting on any paid plan, or add a Site plan to any site to connect your custom domain and unlock hosting features.

Available in CMS Collections. It lets you insert an integer with or without decimals.

Semantics accurately represent the structure and purpose of content in computer languages, enabling web developers and programmers to ensure the written code produces an output legible to humans and machines.

JSON-LD is a structured data format that describes a page's content in a machine-readable way, helping search engines and AI crawlers understand what's on the page.

A static page is a document with fixed content that makes up an individual web page on your site.

Left padding is a CSS property that defines the space between an element's left border and its content.

Interpolation is a mathematical process that estimates and creates new values based on known values and their relationship.

An element that shares the same parent of another element.

Deprecated HTML tags are old tags replaced by updated alternatives in modern web design and development.

The baseline is the fixed invisible line that serves as the base for letters. It’s used as a measurement for line height and x-height.

The act of updating your live site to reflect new design changes.

Static content is content that’s not bound to any Collections or dynamic elements.

The span tag is used to style inline-text.

An element that contains ordered (numbered) or unordered (bulleted) lists.

A plain text field is an input field for short-form text without formatting or styling.

The dropdown menu to the right of the Selector field that allows you to access and change the styles of an element when it is hovered, pressed, or focused.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allows for the transfer of files between two parties over TCP/IP-based communication channels, such as the internet.

Idempotency is a computing principle where multiple applications of a function or operation produce the same result as a single execution.

A browser, or web browser, is a software program that allows users to access, navigate, and interact with websites on the internet.

A custom font is any non-system-default typeface you manually upload to your website.

CMS field groups let you organize a Collection's fields into named, labeled sections, making large or complex collections easier for editors to navigate.

A content optimization system (COS) is software that lets you optimize website content to attract more traffic.

Meta keywords are words or phrases you can include in your web page's metadata.

An array is an ordered, random-access collection of data. This data can be either primitive or object, depending on the coding language.

A Webflow component you can use to embed HTML to display external content, plugins, or applications.

ALPN stands for Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation. It’s a Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension that aids client and server identification during secure data transfers.

You can exclude pages from being published to your site by setting them as drafts. These can be unfinished pages, internal pages such as style guides, archived pages saved for backup, etc. Learn more about drafted pages.

A wrapper is a programming language function for encapsulating and organizing elements within a well-defined interface.

A cryptographic hash function takes an input message of any length, such as a file, message, or password, and uses a mathematical formula to produce a fixed-size output (hash).

Syntax error refers to a mistake in code that violates the programming language’s rules and prevents the code from executing correctly.

An HTML input field, represented by the syntax <input>, is a web page element where users input data, like text and numbers.

Single Instruction and Single Data Stream (SISD) is a computer architecture where a central processing unit (CPU) executes one instruction at a time on a single data piece.

"Safe" is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) method that doesn't modify the server's state or resources.

The toolbar that appears at the bottom of the Editor. From here, you can access the various Editor panels to manage page settings, dynamic content, forms, and your Editor account. You can also see and publish the changes you make through the Editor.

A Webflow component that displays a pane of content associated with a tab menu button.

A certificate authority (CA), also known as a certification authority, issues digital certificates that verify a website’s owner.

Email templates — or pre-designed HTML layouts — ensure consistent branding and visual aesthetic in marketing campaigns.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a web development language that controls the appearance of elements on a webpage.

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) project to enhance accessibility for users with disabilities.

A slug, also known as a URL slug or a website slug, is descriptive text that appears at the end of a URL and identifies a web page.

Checkboxes are HTML structures that allow visitors to input data.

The Shadow DOM is a browser feature that gives an element its own isolated DOM tree, so its styles and scripts do not clash with the rest of the page.

A CSS descriptor sets specific properties and values of an at-rule (@-rule) element, dictating its appearance and behavior on a web page.

A field label is descriptive text that helps users understand what information to enter in an input field on a web form.

A user interface (UI) is any visual element humans interact with on a device, webpage, or application.