What is a web page

A web page is a medium. It's made from HTML, CSS and JavaScript and its viewed within the browser. To design for the web it's very useful to understand the medium and how it behaves.

Over the next few lessons we'll learn the basic concepts...

What is a web page?

A web page is made from HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

HTML

HTML or Hypertext Markup Language is the backbone of a web page. It consists of elements, or nodes that make up the structure of the page.

HTML

CSS

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets provide the look and feel, or presentation of the web page.

CSS

JavaScript

JavaScript provides dynamics, behaviour and can manipulate the web page.

JavaScript

The one core element of the webpage is HTML, without that it does not exists, CSS and JavaScript are important, but first we need to understand what HTML is and does.

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