Head First html and css

HTML
CSS
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Chapter 
1
review 
of basic 
html 
and 
css
Not only is this one fine cup of 
House Blend, but now we’ve got 
a web page to tell all our customers about 
our coffees. Excellent work. I’ve got some 
bigger ideas for the future; in the meantime, 
can you start thinking about how we are 
going to get these pages on the Internet so 
other people can see them?
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HTML and CSS are the languages we use to create 
web pages.
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Web servers store and serve web pages, which are 
created from HTML and CSS. Browsers retrieve 
pages and render their content based on the HTML 
and CSS.
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HTML is an abbreviation for HyperText Markup 
Language and is used to structure your web page. 
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CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets, 
and is used to control the presentation of your 
HTML.
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Using HTML, we mark up content with tags to 
provide structure. We call matching tags, and their 
enclosed content, elements.
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An element is composed of three parts: an opening 
tag, content, and a closing tag. There are a few 
elements, like , that are an exception to this 
rule.
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Opening tags can have attributes. We’ve seen one 
already: type.
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Closing tags have a “/” after the left angle bracket, 
in front of the tag name, to distinguish them as 
closing tags.
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Your pages should always have an element 
along with a element and a  
element.
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Information about the web page goes into the 
element. 
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What you put into the element is what you 
see in the browser.
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Most whitespace (tabs, returns, spaces) is ignored 
by the browser, but you can use it to make your 
HTML more readable (to you).
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You can add CSS to an HTML web page by 
putting the CSS rules inside the

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