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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.headrstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/”>Head

First HTML with CSS &amp; 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