Programming for Absolute Beginners: Using the JavaScript Programming Language

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J. BartlettProgramming for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8751-4_6

6. The HTML File Format

Jonathan Bartlett¹  

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Tulsa, OK, USA

 

In Chapter 4, we took a look at how computers format data. In this chapter, we are going to look at the data format used on the Internet for displaying web pages. That format is HTML—the HyperText Markup Language. This book is not a book on HTML, but it is needed to really understand how JavaScript works. The introduction to HTML in this chapter will not go into great depth but should give you a functional understanding of how HTML works.

6.1 A Quick Introduction to HTML

HTML has many features that have made ...