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Mark J.  Collins, Pro HTML5 with CSS, JavaScript, and Multimedia, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2463-2_1

1. Hypertext Markup Language

Mark J. Collins

(1)Chesterfield, Virginia, USA

In this chapter I’ll explore the first leg of the HTML5 triad, which is the actual content that will be rendered in a web page. In the next two chapters I’ll explain how this content can be styled using CSS and introduce the JavaScript language. But we’ll start with the content.

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I almost referred to this as raw content, but that would be an inaccurate description. A properly formed HTML document has a great deal of structure and organization.

Recall your earlier school days when your teacher returned your homework with red marks on it. Misspelled words, ...

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