Chapter 2
Webpage Markup with HTML5
The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to organize the contents in a webpage.
HTML has evolved and HTML5 is the new standard. HTML5 not only supplies a language for webpage markup, but also defines a good number of APIs (application programming interfaces) for JavaScript programs to interact, control, and manipulate the webpage in the context provided by the user agent (UA), which is usually a browser. It also specifies how browsers must support HTML5 features. Unless otherwise indicated, HTML descriptions and codes in this text will follow HTML5.
HTML provides various elements such as <h2> (second-level header) and <p> (paragraph) with which to structure the page content. HTML enables ...
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