Foundation Dynamic Web Pages with Python: Create Dynamic Web Pages with Django and Flask

© David Ashley 2020

D. AshleyFoundation Dynamic Web Pages with Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6339-6_2

2. HTML Pages and CSS

David Ashley¹ 

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Austin, TX, USA

 

This chapter is all about Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and the corresponding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. This is just an introduction, and it is highly recommended that you obtain specialized references on both of these topics to gain a complete understanding of how these languages work together to present information to the user.

The HTML language has a long history going back to the 1970s. It is what is known as a tag language. It uses special tags within the text within your HTML page to identify different kinds of text. There are tags to identify paragraphs, numbered ...