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HTML: The source code of the web

HTML: The source code of the web

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HTML: The source code of the web

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- At the core of all of elements and boxes and nodes and trees is the web document itself written in Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML. HTML was created to allow humans to write highly-structured documents which could be interpreted consistently and universally by any rendering engine supporting the language. HTML is a declarative markup language, meaning it describes the contents of a document. For example, this is a first-level heading, this is a paragraph, this is a link, this is an emphasized text, this is an blockquote, this is an image, etc. However, HTML does not provide instructions about the control flow or processing or interactions with that content. This allows the reader, commonly known as a client, so a web browser or some other application, to decide how to handle the different types of content which makes HTML incredibly versatile and accessible. The DOM tree is the browser representation of every HTML…

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