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The web, in a browser

The web, in a browser

From the course: Web Programming Foundations

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The web, in a browser

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- So let's catch up to where we are. At this point, we've sent a get request to a server, which has retrieved the contents of the site and sent them back to our browser. Once the website appears in the browser, we can start interacting with it. On the surface, we can look at the contents, read the text, view the images and videos, listen to audio, and interact with interactive elements. Look a little bit deeper, and what we find is a carefully-structured document displayed as a collection of boxes with different properties. There's a header section containing the site title, logo, and a navigation menu, there's the main section containing an article which in turn contains a heading or collection of paragraphs and an image, there's a sidebar section with some advertising, and there's a footer section with company information. There's a visual structure to all this content, but that's just being styled in the browser. Turn off the CSS, and we see the true, underlying structure of the…

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