March 2006
Beginner to intermediate
448 pages
13h 33m
English
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the document object model
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Webville Tree
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</h1>
<p>
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Tree Farm.
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l
learning
about CSS, so
pardon our
plain
site. We just b
o
ught
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Head First HTML
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,
though, so
expec
t great things
soon.
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<p>
You can visit u
s at the
corner of
Binary Blv
d.
and D
OM Drive. Come
check
us out tod
ay!
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</body>
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body
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title
“Webville Tree Farm”
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“Webville Tree Farm”
“Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML”
“, though, so expect great things soon.”
“Welcome to the Webville Tree Farm.
We’re still learning about CSS, so
pardon out plain site. We just bought “
“You can visit us at the corner of
Binary Blvd. and DOM Drive. Come
check us out today!“
<html> is the root
element. Everything else
branches out from it.
Eventually, the tree
ends in leaves, which
often are just pieces
of text in the HTML.
Each bit of markup can have
any number of children.
Sometimes an element
has several children...
...and other times,
an element has
only one child.
Text is represented in the
tree, as well as elements.
When you’re showing the
elements in a tree, you
usually leave off the
angle brackets, < and >.
Here’s the HTML that
this tree represents.
How the browser sees your HTML (part 2)
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Chapter 4
Q:
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