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What is HTML and CSS?

Introduction

All webpages are built using 4 main coding languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. The first two languages we will talk about are HTML and CSS. HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is the "roots" of a webpage. The text, images, tables, lists, structure, etc. are all generated using HTML, and CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is how we style the HTML elements. These two languages are very easy to pick up and exciting to use because with just a few lines of code, you can see direct changes to a webpage!

Later on we will talk about Javascript and PHP. Javascript is a programming language made for making more dynamic websites and PHP is a language that communicates with databases, but those are for another guide!

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