Head First html and css

HTML
CSS
Heck yeah—I don’t want people giving you credit 
for my work!
Hey, I’m pretty powerful too. Having your content 
structured is much more important than having it 
look good. Style is so superficial; it’s the structure of
the content that matters.
Get real! Without me, web pages would be pretty 
damn boring. Not only that, but take away the 
ability to style pages and no one is going to take 
your pages seriously. Everything is going to look 
clumsy and unprofessional.
Whoa, what an ego! Well, I guess I shouldn’t expect 
anything else from you—you’re just trying to make 
a fashion statement with all that style you keep 
talking about.
Tonight’s talk:
HTML and CSS on content and style

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the language 
of the
 web
Fashion statement? Good design and layout can 
have a huge effect on how readable and usable 
pages are. And you should be happy that my 
flexible style rules allow designers to do all kinds 
of interesting things with your elements without 
messing up your structure.
Right. In fact, we’re totally different languages, 
which is good because I wouldn’t want any of your 
style designers messing with my structure elements.
Don’t worry, we’re living in separate universes.
Yeah, that is obvious to me any time I look at 
CSS
—
talk about an alien language.
Millions of web writers would disagree with you. 
I’ve got a nice clean syntax that fits right in with the 
content.
Yeah, like HTML can be called a language? Who 
has ever seen such a clunky thing with all those 
tags?
Just take a look at CSS; it’s so elegant and 
simple, no goofy angle brackets  
.  
<,>

Hey, ever heard of closing tags?
Just notice that no matter where you go, I’ve 
got you surrounded by