Published: April 28, 2020
BASICS FOR BEGINNERS SERIES
You can build an entire website with three languages, sometimes dubbed as "The Holy Trinity."
To be fair, you could also build a site with just HTML or just HTML and CSS together. However, JavaScript is essential for most functionality and interactivity.
Picture a house.
HTML is the wood frame & the walls.
CSS is the paint and decorations.
JS is the door hinges, plumbing, electricity, & running water.
HTML will provide the structure of the webpage. CSS will provide the style/appearance. JS will provide the functionality.
Start coding your website with HTML. It's the foundation of the site—and your CSS and JS won't work without it.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Page title here</title>
</head>
<body>
Page content goes here
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
Declare the document as HTML
<html lang="en">
</html>
Open an HTML tag and set the language to English. Then close with the closing HTML tag.
<head>
</head>
Next, open and close head tags. This is a place for essential info and links to other files and assets.
<meta charset="utf-8">
In the head tags, we include a meta tag. This one in particular specifies the character encoding for the document.
<title>Page title here</title>
In the head tags, we also include title tags. This specifies the title of the webpage.
<body>
Page content goes here
</body>
Finally, we open and close body tags. All of our page content will live between these tags.
Let's add a heading to our webpage. Headings range from h1 (large heading) to h6 (small heading).
Let's go ahead and add an h1 inside our body tags.
<body>
<h1>Hello world!</h1>
</body>
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