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Start by leveraging HTML

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- [Instructor] Before you start applying your newfound CSS skills, I want to emphasize this: HTML alone will get you most of what you need. What I mean is that most types of content, functionality, and presentation that you need for an element or a component on a website can be created using just HTML. CSS and JavaScript can help you extend or build off of what HTML is already providing. It'll serve you well to use them as little as possible, and only when you need to augment styles or capabilities that HTML doesn't provide. Over in Codespace for the exercise files for this lesson, you'll find in HTML document with every currently available HTML element. Scroll through it, both in the code and in a live server, and you'll see what HTML features and user agent styles are available out of the box with no configuration. Earlier in the course, I mentioned that when you load HTML documents into a browser with no styles applied, it already has a bunch of styling and functionality built into…

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