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Chapter 4
When you’re creating a web page, you write HTML to represent the different
parts of your page. Then you give that HTML to the browser, and the browser
gures out how to represent that HTML on the screen. But if you want to start
changing your web page using JavaScript, you need to know exactly how the
browser sees your HTML.
First, let’s take a look at a simple HTML document:
Here’s the HTML that you give to the browser...
<html>
<head>
<title>Webville Tree Farm</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Webville Tree Farm</h1>
<p>Welcome to the Webville Tree Farm. We’re still learning
about CSS, so pardon our plain site. We just bought
<a href=”http://www.headrstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/”>Head
First HTML with CSS & XHTML</a>, though, so expect
great things soon.</p>
<p>You can visit us at the corner of Binary Blvd. and
DOM Drive. Come check us out today!</p>
</body>
</html>
OK, this is HTML 101. So what in
the world does any of this have
to do with trees?
from markup to trees