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❓ HTML, CSS, and JS?

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. This is the basic foundation for every website in the world. HTML is what you use to give your website structure — creating headers, paragraphs, lists, tables, and more.

We’ll go through a few HTML samples together. Use the links below to access them!

HTML has over a hundred tags, and we’ll dig deeper into what those are as we move forward. For help with HTML tags throughout the week, be sure to reference the HTML Cheat Sheet in your kit!

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

CSS stands for “cascading style sheets.” This is what you’ll use to make your website look pretty! You can do all sorts of fun things with CSS, like changing colors, adding borders, and animating things.

Use the links below to access the CSS samples:

CSS has lots of cool features beyond this, and we’ll cover a lot of those later. A few of my favorites are:

  • border for creating cool borders around elements on my website
  • font for changing the fonts
  • font-size for making some text bigger or smaller
  • box-shadow for making cool shadows around text and images

JS (JavaScript)

JS, or JavaScript, is what you’ll use to make your website interactive! JavaScript allows you to move objects around the screen, change things when users click buttons, and even talk to other websites to get new information.

One common use for JavaScript is to change something on a website when a user clicks a button. We’ll walk through a sample of this; use the links below to follow along!