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web server
Web servers store and serve web pages, which are created from HTML and CSS. Browsers retrieve pages and render their content based on the HTML and CSS.
web browser
Browsers make requests for HTML pages, and they can also request from other sources like images.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language. It tells the browser what it needs to know to display your page.
HTML comment
HTML comments are not rendered by the browser you can use them by putting a less than sign next to an exclamation mark and two dashes, then your comment, and to close it, you put two dashes and a greater than sign.
HTML element
Element = Opening Tag + Content + Closing Tag
HTML tag
Tags tell the browser about the structure and meaning of your text. They are words or characters surrounded by angled brackets.
HTML content
The information that goes in between the tags(this would be content).
HTML style element
The HTML style element defines the style information for a document.
style element
It contains the CSS code to make a website look good.
CSS
Gives you a way to describe how your content should be presented. Used inside the style element.
Color hex codes
A combo of letters and numbers that you use to specify a color. It has a # before it.
link element
The link element is used to take you to different pages. Use the a tag and put the text you want for the link inside. Inside the first tag after the a but before the greater than sign, add herf="this is where you specify the destination of the link" (herf is an attribute).
attribute
Attributes give you a way to specify additional information about an element. Example: Type attribute specifies a style.
attribute-value pair
All attributes have values that are enclosed in double-quotes.
href attribute
Tells us the destination of a hyperlink.
subdirectory (a.k.a. folder)
A directory inside another directory.
path
The way you get from your page to the destination file. It can be going up or down as many directories as you want.
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