Creating a UI using HTML

We have covered some of the basics of HTML tags in the previous section. Here, we will be using the same tags to create an entire application using HTML. Let's review the previous sample application, which was created using pure Shiny:

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there are two drop-down boxes—one to select a movie title and one to select its genre. There is also a textbox, which is used to give a name to the graph. We will not be creating a range slider since producing a range slider using Shiny is much easier than using raw HTML. Here, our final output will be a graph, bold text, some links, and a ...

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