Hour 16. HTML5 and CSS3

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the code behind web pages. Using HTML, you place text, graphics, JavaScript, Java and other active content, and hyperlinks throughout web pages to give those pages the look you desire. You’ve been using some HTML to this point, as it serves as a wrapper around the JavaScript code you’ve been writing to learn basic programming. You needed some rudimentary HTML code to make the JavaScript run.

Unlike traditional programming languages (but like the JavaScript you’ve studied so far), HTML is interpreted as your web page loads. Your web page, formatted with HTML code, goes across the Internet to any user who requests it. That user’s browser then interprets your HTML elements to format the ...

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