Chapter 8
Introducing HTML
In This Chapter
Discovering how HTML was created
Creating HTML headers
Looking at the structural elements of HTML
Exploring text and image elements
Using HTML tables
The web today is much different than the web before, say, the year 2000 or so. Through the 1990s, as the web emerged, web pages were based on HTML, with limited use of JavaScript. Such web pages are called static web pages, and the web of that time is now referred to as the static web.
Late in the 1990s, a livelier web came into place, much more responsive to users. Now, when a user visits a web page, the web page is created on the spot through a series of database calls. The ads come from some databases, the header and footer from others, and the main content from others entirely.
All this content is poured into a page layout defined in CSS, with liberal use of JavaScript to make the page lively, dynamic, and responsive. Languages like Python are used for purposes such as interfacing with ...
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