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- At it's core, the web runs on three main programming and markup languages. HTML for content, CSS for style and JavaScript for interactivity. In this chapter, we'll look at each of these in detail to figure out what they are, how they work, and how they work together. Starting with HTML. HTML is the core markup language for the web. The document you see in the browser is an HTML document, either written by hand or generated on the fly by a server or an application running in the browser. Traditionally, web documents were static, meaning every page you visited on the web was a handwritten HTML document, and if you built a site with 10 or 100 pages and wanted to update the header or main menu, you'd have to make that update independently in each of the individual documents. That's when I started building stuff on the web, and trust me when I say it was not great. Thankfully, we've moved on from the days of static web documents to dynamic web applications powered by content management…

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