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How websites and HTML work for complete beginners

How websites and HTML work for complete beginners

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How websites and HTML work for complete beginners

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So how do websites actually work? One of the most important things when it comes to understanding how a website works is rendering. Rendering just means the images that you see that you can interact with. That's the UI. Remember, the user interface. What that means, really, is that when the user visits a web page, the server is going to return an HTML file. Even if it's React, I don't care. even if it's React or React or whatever fancy frameworks you're using, it's still going to return an HTML file to your browser. And that HTML file is going to look like this. It's a file. It's just a document with some code written on it. Now, HTML is a markup language. And it stands for Hypertext Markup Language. Really simply and quickly, because we're not going to get lost in the history of the internet, But HTML is code that's used to create web pages. You have to think of this like the building blocks of a web page. You get these special tags, like a body, so the body of the web page, or divs,…

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